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In October 2018, Creighton's 2040 Initiative and Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (NCR) Program hosted the conversation "Disrupting Law, Reclaiming Justice" with a focus on Rules for a Flat World, Dr. Gillian Hadfield's timely and important book offering a critique of current law and legal infrastructure.  Law and lawyers, according to Hadfield, are  not available to most people both in the U.S. and worldwide and are concurrently unable to meet the sophisticated needs of today's globalized economy.

A June 2019 special issue of the Creighton Journal of Interdisciplinary Leadership, coedited by Profs., Palma Strand, Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán, and Bernie Mayer, presents highlights of that conversation as well as additional perspectives that extend and deepen the discussion. Read more here.

New Negotiation and ADR Articles and Research

Technology in the Mediation Room: In this new article appearing in the Journal of Dispute Resolution, Noam Ebner of Creighton NCR's program and Alyson Carrel of Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law explain why embracing technology in traditional, in-the-room mediation practice is essential for the field's viability, and suggest how this can be done. 

Negotiation Essentials for Lawyers: In this new book, edited by Andrea Schneider and Chris Honeyman, 65 contributors boil negotiation down to its essence. Not only for lawyers. See more detail and the table of contents here. 

ODR, en Espanol: Alberto Elisavetsky's new book, La mediación en la luz de las nuevas technologicas, is now out and available here.

Conflict and Negotiation Skills in Health Settings: Godfrey Steele's new book Health Communication: Principles & Practices, is available here. The book addresses interpersonal, group, and intercultural communication; conflict; and negotiation in health settings. 

Negotiation and ADR Teaching Resources 

2019 Resource Share: Check out these new teaching ideas, exercises and resources compiled by Bobbi McAdoo and Sharon Press at the Resource Share session they conducted at the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution's annual conference.

Calls for Proposals and Papers

Conflict Resolution Quarterly seeks the latest research, evaluations, and practice notes in the field of mediation. 

The American Arbitration Association (AAA) and its international division, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), is now accepting Initial Descriptions of Grant Requests for its 2020 funding cycle. 

News, Articles, Podcasts & Blogs

Join the 2019 International Online Dispute Resolution Forum to be held in Williamsburg, VA from October 28-30. It is being hosted by the National Center for State Courts and co-sponsored by the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution.

Six Visions of the Future of ADR: At a plenary on Engaging Our Future: Opportunities and Challenges at a recent fieldwide conference, ADR professors offered their visions of possible futures of the field.

The Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program has just posted Episode 3 in their podcast series on public and political dialogue, Thanks for Listening. This episode deals with community and conflict engagement activity in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, following the fatal shooting of Philando Castile by a police officer during a traffic stop in 2016. The episode features John Thompson, Philando’s close friend, and Sharon Press, director of the Dispute Resolution Institute at Mitchell-Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, MN, who both took action after the event. 

Job Opportunities

The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law seeks entry-level / junior lateral candidates for at least one tenure-track position. Primary areas of need are Dispute Resolution, Business Law, and Race and Law. J.D. or equivalent required.

The Resolution Center in Beatrice, Nebraska, is seeking a Director of Services.

Central Mediation Center is looking for a Child Welfare Conferencing Facilitator, based in Kearney, Nebraska.

British Columbia's Civil Resolution Tribunal seeks online mediators / case managers (BC residents).

The Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution at York University's Osgoode Hall Law School is seeking a mediation research consultant.

The Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman at the World Bank Group seeks mediators for its roster of consultants. 

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.