What's Happening in Conflict?

A Message From Creighton NCR

See See Prof. Jackie Font's op-ed on ways the academic community can promote racial equality 

New Negotiation & ADR Articles and Research

On Tuesday September 22, 2020 (at 12:10 eastern), Alyson Carrel will deliver The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law’s 2020 Lawrence Lecture on Dispute Resolution: “Reimagining Negotiation for the 21st Century.” 

The current pandemics have forced the ADR field (and the world) to embrace the growing role of technology and reckon with the continuing racism plaguing our society. It is at this moment that we must reflect on the history of the dispute resolution field and recognize opportunities to harness our newfound comfort with technology to address often ignored or sidelined social critiques of our field. In this presentation, Professor Carrel will discuss her recent articles exploring how tools such as litigation analytics and multi-party secure computation may innovate our processes in ways that allow us to address longstanding debates or concerns and reimagine negotiation in the 21st-century.

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

What Comes Next? In this article, Gary Doernhoefer anticipates a surge in demand for mediation services to be part of the recovery from the effects of COVID-19, and makes recommendations for getting constructively ahead of the wave. 

New Guidelines for Online Processes: The International Council for Online Dispute Resolution has just issued Guidelines for Video Mediation and Video Arbitration.

Courts, ADR & COVID-19: In this article, Tania Sourdin and John Zeleznikow survey a broad range of responses to the pandemic around the globe.

Conferences and Calls for Papers

Negotiation and Conflict Management Research (NCMR) has issued a call for papers for a special issue focusing on Lessons from Practice: Extensions of Current Negotiation Theory and Research.

Conflict Resolution Quarterly has issued a Call for Papers for a special issue focusing on Shared Society: Theory and Practice.

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.

The Maryland Law Center for Dispute Resolution is hiring a staff attorney-mediator. 

The United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri is seeking a director for the Court’s Mediation and Assessment Program.

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.