ADR Developments, Jobs, Trainings, & Resources

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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.