What's Happening in Conflict?

Court ODR: New York State is the latest to launch an Online Dispute Resolution platform for small claims.

New Negotiation & ADR  Talks, Articles & Research

Online Dispute Resolution in the Courts: In this webinar, Justice Deno Himonas of the Utah Supreme Court and Paul Embley, CIO of The National Center for State Courts are hosted by Leah Wing, Co-director, The National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution (Feb. 2021)

Online Mediation: In this book chapter, Noam Ebner and Daniel Rainey discuss online mediation's development and practice trends.

The Human Touch, Online? In this new book chapter, Noam Ebner discusses how to bring the human touch to online mediation and negotiation processes. 

Online Dispute Resolution Bibliography: The National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution has published a comprehensive bibliography for publications in the field of ODR.

Competitions, Conferences, and Calls for Papers

The International Journal of ODR is calling for student essays on Online Dispute Resolution. IJODR will consider papers submitted by September 7th to be published in the next issue of the journal. Essays should be in a word range of approximately 5,000-8,000 words and conform to IJODR's style guide. Send submission to Dan Rainey, editor, at daniel@danielrainey.us 

ODR LatinoAmérica in collaboration with Mediators’ Global Group (MGG) will host the INTERNATIONAL ODRExpo.tech  MEDIATION  COMPETITION 2021 on April 26 and 27, 2021. 

The National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution recently held its annual international Online Dispute Resolution Forum, celebrating the new edition of ODR Theory and Practice and featuring many of its authors. Full video of this two day online conference, is available here. 

Mediate.com has announced its Young Minds, Global Voices Interactive online conference and writing competition for ADR students/youth (17-29) around the world.

Awards and Scholarships

The AAA-ICDR Foundation has established a Diversity Scholarship Fund. The fund grants diverse law students/professionals up to $2,000 of financial assistance towards participation in a degree program, fellowship, or conference in/on alternative dispute resolution.

Negotiation and ADR Teaching Resources 

2020 Resource Share: Check out these new teaching ideas, exercises and resources compiled by Sharon Press and Noam Ebner at the Resource Share session they conducted at the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution's 2020 virtual conference.

The Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution has created a database compiling executive summaries of research articles on conflict resolution, taking a theory-to-practice perspective.  

ADR Video Collections: In this post on Indisputably, John Lande lists a number of video collections for teachers, students, practitioners and practitioners in the field of dispute resolution as well as for disputants and attorneys. Many of them are available free of charge.

Job Opportunities

The Department of the Interior, Office of Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution (CADR), seeks a conflict management specialist.

Watch our latest webinar: 

"Asking Better Questions" 

Discuss it [HERE].

ADRHub Webinar: Asking Better Questions from Bryan J Hanson on Vimeo.

The Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program, a part of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in Creighton University's Graduate School, provides an interdisciplinary program leading to master's degrees and graduate certificates in negotiation and dispute resolution for students from a variety of fields as well as mid-career professionals.