Two students graduating from The Werner Institute's MS Program in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution have been recognized for excellence by Creighton University. Kerri Schmitt was given the Outstanding Service award, and Mat Beecher was awarded as Outstanding Online Student.

We're very proud of both of you - thanks for making us look good!

New article on environmental benefits of online dispute resolution – just published in Conflict Resolution Quarterly at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/crq.21039/abstract.

Full text can be downloaded here: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1993192.  

Big thank you to co-author Coleen Getz!

From Colin Rule's blog on ODR.info:

ODR experts wanted for online facilitation

Much has been written about the many benefits offered by Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) over the past decade and a half. Articles extolling ODR for being flexible, cost-efficient, convenient, cross-jurisdictional, travel-saving and so on are by now commonplace.…

Like many fathers 'raising' a teenage daughter in the new millenium, I find that I remember by heart an improbable number of lines from book series such as Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, or the Twilight saga, even though I find myself unable to recall other little facts and details, such as the precise names and order of birth of my own children, at least not all at the same time.…

Around the holidays, we all promise ourselves things such as self-improvement and behavioral changing. For the past few years, I’ve been promising myself a simple promise: To find something fun, which I really enjoy doing – and to take it very seriously.

I haven’t been successful with this. And, I’m not too hard on myself – I really like my day job that much.  Still, my recurring failure does leave me envious of people who are dead serious about the things they do for…

After a few months’ break, I’m back hunting the web for companies and service providers out there who are offering services which would be very familiar to ODR practitioners and researchers – but do so without making any mention of ODR, and beneath the radar of the ODR field in general. As earlier parts of this hunt have discussed, these…

 I just posted a new / old paper, one which really kicked off my own constant engagement with this topic, on SSRN. Thank you, co-author Yael Efron!  Check it out @ http://ssrn.com/abstract=1292594

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You’d think I’d be over getting amazed at how real, intense and engrossing online interactions can be. After all – after years of mediating online, and teaching online, designing online processes and writing about relational effects and negotiation aspects of online interaction, I should really internalize the power of the online and the ability of skilled people to humanize it.

Still, Cyberweek always manages to have me shaking my head in amazement...…

Has Cyberweek piqued your interest?

Want to know more about ODR and where it's headed?

The 11th International Forum on ODR will be held this June in Prague – check it out! http://www.odr2012.org/node/3

In the spirit of Cyberweek, the annual…

One of the best-kept secrets about ODR is how green it is. See Colleen Getz's latest blog, in which she writes:

"...Of course, a decision to use a distance mediation or other on-line dispute resolution service will be just one of many considerations in determining how best to get help with resolving your dispute. But, when weighing the pros and cons, it is important to know that the…

I've put some new papers up on SSRN, you can view them at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=425153

My deepest thanks and appreciation to my coauthors! We're looking forward to hearing any comments people may have; post them here or write me.

Noam

[In a partial response to people who have asked me what I actually do when I'm on the road...]

I recently presented a paper at IACM's conference in Istanbul on recent developments & new trends in negotiation teaching. The full text of the paper is now available on SSRN (click One-Click Download) for anyone who'd like to take a look.

If you've made your way through…

I’m starting this summarizing post on my way home, travelling from Beijing to Istanbul over an airborne version of the ancient Silk Road – the trade routes which have connected China and the West over the past couple of millennia. I certainly do feel that I have been on a trading run - I came with full bags of goods and left with bags of other goods – but the details of the transaction, the content of the saddlebags, are yet to be explored.

So far as the conference itself is…

Over the weekend, conference participants had the opportunity to serve as judges in the 3^rd Annual China University English Language Negotiation Competition.

Teams of students from eight universities squared off against each other in four rounds of negotiation, using simulations spanning a wide spectrum of topics. Judges observed the negotiations and scored parties on process issues and outcome.

As a judge, I was surprised and impressed. Surprised, at the fact that…

 I felt right at home in Peking University’s School of Law. Perhaps this is because so much of my own law school experience seemed to me to be going on, at times, in Chinese. Alternatively this may be due to Andrew and Vivian’s skillful and…

As the Rethinking Negotiation Teaching conference opened in Beijing today, participants were offered to partake in breakout activities in three tracks aiming to anchor the conference around a local perspective: Chinese law, education in China and Chinese culture.  

I chose to participate in the latter. In this blog, I’ll share a description and some insights from two activities led by Andrew Wei-Min Lee and Feng Ying Yu, directors of Beijing-based…

I’m writing this blog in an airport lounge, waiting for the first leg (Tel-Aviv to Istanbul) of my journey to China. I’m on my way to the third, and final, conference of the Second Generation Negotiation Teaching Project to be held in Beijing over the course of the next week or so.

The conferences in this project have been moving steadily…