ADR Developments, Jobs, Trainings, & Resources

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Notices of ADR Developments, Jobs, Trainings, & Resources

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What's Inside:

1.  NTL Institute (www.ntl.org) will be offering a 10% discount to anyone from the Federal ADR and the Mediators Beyond Borders community that registers for a class by January 1st, 2011.

2.  Question regarding establishing school peer mediation program in Washington, DC

3.  How to subscribe to Jobs & Internships list of Tom Mantos

4.  JOB OPENING: Bilingual English/Spanish Campaign Communication Coordinator/D.C.

5.  Book: Peace: The Other Side of Anger, written by Dave Wolffe

6.  JOB OPENING: Senior ProgramManager/Senior Facilitator (U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution)

7.  JOB OPENING: Associate University Ombuds Officer (Columbia University, New York)

8.  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Chief Judge Robert M. Bell Award for Outstanding Contribution to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in Maryland

9.  40-Hour Basic Mediation Workshop  - Mediation Matters (Bethesda, Maryland)

10. Maryland Home Improvement Commission (MHIC) is embarking on a project to use mediation to resolve disputes between home improvement contractors and home owners

11.  ACR Workplace Section - Conflict Coaching Committee Teleseminar (Dec 9)

12.  JOB OPENING: Contract Corporate Counsel (Humanity United)

13.  JOB OPENING: Demand Dignity Campaigner (Amnesty International)

14.  ACR Environment and Public Policy Section - Technology & Environmental Conflict Resolution:  Best Practices Webinar (December 9)

15. ABA TELECONFERENCE - The Brains Behind the Deals: Insights from Neuroscience for Litigators, Deal Makers and Dispute Resolvers (Dec 14)

ADR Developments, Jobs, Trainings, & Resources

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Notices of ADR Developments, Jobs, Trainings, & Resources

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What's Inside...

1.  Cornell University’s Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution has the following upcoming training programs

2.  Divorce Mediation Trainer Internship: January. 11-15, 2011 LOS ANGELES

3.  Dates of Safe Horizon mediation trainings and apprenticeship program

4.  JOB OPENING: The University of Maryland School of Law seeks applicants for a faculty position in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution

5.  Ron Kraybill's Trainer's Guide to Successful Confllct Styles can be downloaded for free at www.RiverhouseEpress.com   Follow the instructions on the website

6.  Call for Applications for Internship Opportunities

7.  ACR SPIRITUALITY SECTION REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS - 6^TH ROCKY MOUNTAIN RETREAT - July 28^th – August 1^st, 2011

8.  Request from Director of the ADR Division of Georgetown Law's Barristers' Council

9.  Center for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies Workshop - “Building Capacities for Cross-Cultural Communication” (February 13 - 17, 2011)

10.  TRANSFORMATIVE MEDIATION: A SOURCEBOOK: RESOURCES FOR CONFLICT INTERVENTION PRACTITIONERS AND PROGRAMS (Edited by Joseph Folger, Baruch Bush and Dorothy Della Noce)

11.  CRDC is proud to announce the opening to the general public of its International Applied Conflict Resolution Courses, stand alone courses that will enable students and practitioners the rare opportunity to complement professional and educational development with practice by engaging in real interventions into complex conflicts throughout the world during Winter, Spring and/or Summer breaks. 

12.  Community Alternative Mediation, Inc.,(CALM) a community mediation and conflict resolution center in Frederick County, Maryland is accepting letters of interest and resumes for the director's position until November 30, 2010

13.  Assessing Our Internal GPS (Global Positioning System) When Navigating the Transitions through Cultural Diversity, Conflict, and Change in Our Personal Lives and When We Serve as Mediators (Date: December 16 & 17, 2010)

14.  JOB OPENING: EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT - Partners for Democratic Change (Partners)

15. I am forwarding a link to Arjuna Ardagh's video blog released yesterday, "Becoming an Agent of Collective Healing".

16. USIP resources on Women and War

17. 40 HOUR FUNDAMENTAL MEDIATION AND CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION SKILLS TRAINING (December 13-17, 9am-5:30pm)

18.  JOB OPENING: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has an exciting new opportunity for an experienced professional Ombudsman

19.  JOB OPENING: Gender Advisor (Washington, DC)

20.  JOB OPENING.  The NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies is seeking an experienced professional to teach an introductory conflict resolution course during the summer 2011 semester

REMINDER: This Wednesday at Noon: Lunch with Ernest Legier

Don't forget-- ADR Law Society invites you to join us for lunch this Wednesday (11.10.2010) for lunch with Ernest Legier, as he shares perspectives on arbitration. 

Click here for our original posting.

Mentoring Techniques in the Mediation Process

Click here for an excellent paper on mentoring techniques within the mediation process.  We appreciate John Settle sharing, via Deborah Laufner, this paper he developed with Geetha Ravindra and Toby Tream Guerin.

Should you have any questions for John Settle, he can be contacted at:

John Settle

President

SETTLEment Associates LLC

703-582-3999

ADR Developments, Jobs, Trainings, and Resources

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Notices of ADR Developments, Jobs, Trainings, & Resources

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What's Inside...
1. ACR call for proposals for the 11^th Annual Conference extended to November 19, 2010

2. ACR – Comment deadline on the draft “Ethical Standards for Non-Decision Making Neutrals” (Due October 31, 2010)

3.  ‪New, Affordable ACR Membership Program for International Members  r

4. ACR Offers Great Deals on Professional Insurance

5. Changing Status of Coexistence International within Brandeis University‬

6. Webinar with Bill Ury on November 1, 2010: Creative Uses of Conflict Resolution Skills‬

7. Northern Virginia Mediation Service (NVMS) - 2011 training schedule!

8. The MTI Monthly Newsletter (October 2010

9. Federal contractors must navigate workplace mediation without roadmap

10. Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) certification training. (Annapolis, MD, November 18-19, 2010)

11. Job Posting: University of California San Francisco

12.  Job Posting: Apollo Group 

13.   Job Posting: American Red Cross

14.    Coke Ombuds Addresses International Bar Association

15.   Report Released on Measuring Peace in the Media‬

16.    ‪Job: Assistant or Associate Professor and Director of the Mississippi Innocence Project

17.    Job: Assistant Professor, Cross-Cultural Communication/Intercultural Relations‬

18.   Job: Tenured Associate or Full Professor‬

19.    Job: Diversity Fellow in African American Studies or Cross-Cultural Psychology‬

20.    Job: Director, Institute of Government‬

21.     Check out Transparency International 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index

With special thanks to Deborah S. Laufer and Zarra Elias for providing the information and resources.

Mark Your Calendar: ADRLS hosts Ernest Legier

We are proud to announce that our next event will be a talk by Ernest Legier of the American Arbitration Association. Tulane ADR Law Society will host him as he offers his professional perspectives on November 10, in the MPR of Weinmann Hall at noon. We look forward to welcoming Mr. Legier, our members, and anyone else interested in learning more about the field of arbitration over lunch.

ADR Developments, Jobs, Trainings, and Resources

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Notices of ADR Developments, Jobs, Trainings, & Resources

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What's Inside...
1. Request from the EPA

2. Journal of Conflictology

3. Executive Director position with Encounter

4. October is National Bullying Prevention Month

5. Resource Guide to Public Engagement

6. Cardozo Law

7. Ombuds Blog

8. MACRO and the Negotiations & Conflict Mgmt Program

9. Weinstein International Fellowship

10. Summary of OECD-DAC Principles for International Engagement in Fragile States

11. Georgetown University MA in Conflict Resolution

12. ADR Practitioners Lunchtime Teleconference Series


With special thanks to Deborah S. Laufer and Zarra Elias for providing the information and resources.

Why Suge Knight Needs ADR

Would Face-to-Face Have Settled a Hip Hop Facedown?
From Conflict Prevention and Resolution, 09/02/2010

"...Knight, the former Death Row Records CEO, alleged that West should be responsible for damages he sustained at a party West threw at Miami’s Shore Club, in the city’s South Beach section, in 2005.

According to the New York Post, Knight alleges that he was shot and robbed at the party. He is seeking more than $1 million in damages to cover, among other things, $200,000 in medical bills and $135,000 for a diamond earring lost in the aftermath. Knight also claims that both West and the Shore Club failed to provide adequate security.

The parties have had two opportunities to settle the case. According to a blog on the Miami New Times’ website, the first attempt occurred in June, which resulted in West, and his attorney, walking out.

This set of facts raises several important questions:

Does being face-to-face improve the quality and result of mediation?

It is likely that face-to-face mediation will improve the quality of, and garner better results in, the mediation process. This is because one of the many benefits of mediation is the opportunity to meet your adversary on a (relatively) even keel outside of the adversarial model. By calling in, there is potential for undermining the spirit of the session.

True, face-to-face didn’t work the first time around in June. But first mediation sessions also often are known to focus on laying the groundwork for a settlement later.

Even if they didn’t pick up from where they left off, the parties would have had a better chance for success if they had met face to face. Without West’s attendance, the chances of a symbolic handshake that precedes a more-concrete deal was not likely. ...."

Read the full article here.

New Job Posting!

Internship Opportunity for 1L's and 2L's:

Track II Mediation Unit Internship - Search for Common Ground

Click here for more information on this internship!

ADR Bookshelf

 Take a moment to browse the ADR bookshelf, in the menu bar on the right side of our blog. It features a list of recommended titles that you may find helpful as you learn more about the facets of Alternative Dispute Resolution. Members may be particularly interested to browse the titles by one of our advisors, Professor Edward Sherman. 

If you have an idea for submission to the ADR Bookshelf, let us know! E-mail ADR.Tulane@gmail.com.

An Invitation from Law Women and Tulane BLSA

Hello,

BLSA and Law Women would like to invite ADR Law Society to A Conversation with Kim Boyle, the first female African American president of the Louisiana State Bar Association. She is a partner at Phelps Dunbar, and practices in the areas of labor and employment, civil rights, constitutional law, commercial, tort and general litigation Ms. Boyle will join us for a conversation on contemporary issues of race and gender in the legal profession, and her experience addressing such issues throughout her legal career.   

Ms. Boyle will join us as part of a discussion on women and minorities in the field. We hope your members will join us for this event, as it promises to foster some excellent ideas and perspectives for legal professionals, regardless of one's gender, race, or background. 

Attorney Boyle will speak at TLS on Monday, October 25 at 6:00pm in Room 110, with a reception to follow. We hope to see you there!

Conflict Resolution Day

Today is Conflict Resolution Day. Tulane ADR Law Society would like to thank those members who made yesterday's meeting such a success. Visit the ACR website to find out how you can be a part of this celebration!

General Body Meeting: 10.20.10

Welcome to the ADR Law Society at Tulane Law School!

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Thank you for visiting our blog. We trust that this will be one of several resources for members, ADR professionals, and anyone who would like to stay connected to the developments in the organization and our community.

Stay with us, as we will be adding new information. We can be reached at ADR.Tulane@gmail.com