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What is your profession and title?: Editor and Publisher

What is your ADR experience? (trainings and education): Formally, none. I am approaching the field as a reporter covering a beat. My blog casts a net to reach "seat-of-the-pants peacemakers" and introduce them to formal methods in mediation, restorative practice and peacemaking.

What, if any, ADR organizations or groups do you belong to?: None. See above.

What are you hoping to get from ADRhub.com: Exposure to issues and individuals in field of alternative dispute resolution. I have a particular interest in interfaith mediation, and a strong attraction toward Restorative Justice.

Do you/your company have a website?: http://www.fairnessworks.com

What other ADR related sites do you visit?: mediate.com
adrblogs.com

What else do you want to tell the ADRhub.com community (what you are up to, what you would like to do in ADR, etc.): I'd like to learn about the potential and actual role of nonprofessionals and laypersons in the ADR world, especially as community advocates of mediation.

Ken Kimsey's Blog

Film censors: Don’t let bullies win! Give ‘Bully’ a PG-13 instead of an R film rating!

Posted on February 28, 2012 at 11:33pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

After nearly two years of planning and then recording video of the lives of young people in high school and middle school teens affected by bullying for the documentary Bully, an R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America (…

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Budget pressures force conservatives to propose progressive solutions to prison overcrowding in Georgia

Posted on February 27, 2012 at 12:26pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Progressive changes from conservative Georgia legislators

In the week ahead, surprising reforms in my home state’s criminal justice practices are likely to be introduced in Georgia’s Republican-dominated (conservative) General Assembly. The Sunday issue of my hometown newspaper, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, reported the good news on Page One, below the fold. (“Lawmakers…

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'Zero Tolerance' of bullies? Hungary's schools offer an alternative response to conflict management

Posted on September 22, 2011 at 2:23pm 1 Comment 0 Likes

As school boards, state and local governments draft legislation to respond to increased reports of bullying, the term “zero tolerance” often comes up. When New Jersey recently implemented its sweeping “Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights,” the “zero tolerance” formula appeared in several news reports.

I posed a question to a restorative justice…

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