What's Happening in Conflict?

News from Creighton NCR

NCR in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Noam Ebner's Star Wars & Conflict Resolution project has taken to the Cons! View the panel he presented with colleagues Scott Maravilla, Hillary Elfenbein, Sherrill Hayes, and Jen Reynolds at Atlanta's Dragon Con.

Civity Storytelling: Palma Joy Strand, Professor of Law in the NCR program, was part of the Civity design team that submitted Civity Storytelling to the Strengthening Democracy Challenge sponsored by the Stanford Polarization and Social Change Lab - and came out a winner. The Challenge identified short, scalable interventions that could reach millions of people.

Upcoming Conferences and Events

International Association for Conflict Management: IACM's annual conference will be held on July 9th-12th in Thessaloniki, Greece. See the Call for Papers

New Negotiation & ADR  Books, Talks, Articles & Research

Cyberweek 2022:  The video archive including many of the talks and panels from this conference is available here.

New Book on ODR: Dan Rainey's Integrating Technology into Your Dispute Resolution Practice: Making Friends with the Fourth Party, is a practical guide to ODR. Read the introduction here.

New Book on ODR: Transformacao Digital com ODR, edited by Alberto Elisavetsky and Celeida Laporta and coordinated by Maria Victoria Marun, comprises chapters on different aspects of ODR in Spanish and Portuguese. 

Conflict engagement, activism, and rethinking neutrality:  Jackie Font-Guzman and Bernie Mayer's new book, The Neutrality Trap, offers a new look at issues long considered axiomatic in the conflict engagement field. 

The Listening Dilemma: How to temper rage with dialog, activism with engagement? This article, written by Prof. Jen Reynolds of the University of Oregon School of Law before the recent Supreme Court decision, discusses abortion, dialog, when to listen to the other side... and when not to.

Online Dispute Resolution Bibliography: The National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution has published a comprehensive bibliography for publications in the field of ODR. The bibliography has been updated in March 2022. 

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 & ADR

Teaching and Learning Resources 

2022 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 2022 Annual 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.

Books on Mediation and Conflict: This list compiled by Giuseppe Leone recommends books about the mediation process and about human behavior in negotiation and conflict settings.

Job Opportunities 

Grand Canyon University seeks online adjunct faculty in Conflict and Negotiation.

Kennesaw State University seeks an Assistant Professor of Conflict Management.

Grand Canyon University seeks adjunct faculty to teach Negotiation and conflict Resolution on-campus in Phoenix, AZ.

Post-Doc Position: The Dispute Resolution Research Center at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, is seeking applicants for a post-doctoral fellowship.

Tufts University: The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy seeks to hire a tenure-track Associate Professor of International Conflict Resolution.

UMASS Boston: The Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, & Global Governance invites qualified applicants for a tenure-track assistant professor position

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.