Mediation On-Line A Newsletter from ADR Resources http://adrr.com/adr9/075.htm Volume 9, #2 (March 2006) From: srmarsh (at) adrr (dot) com Subscribe

Greetings:

A new book, Managing Differences: How to Build Better Relationships at Work and Home by Daniel Dana -- probably worth reading.  I've liked other works by Dan Dana well enough to note this without having read it.

Interesting new Mediation & ADR (and other) web sites and useful links:

• http://www.mediate.com/articles/kraybillR1.cfm?nl=93 -- Skills for Transformative Group Facilitation -- an excellent article.
• www.womensaynotowar.org and www.unitedforpeace.org are two new peace movement sites.  I've mixed feelings, but the sites seem honest.
• http://www.bond.edu.au/law/centres/drc/newsletter/Vol22Mar06.pdf  -- the Bond University Law School Newsletter.  Always excellent.
• http://www.mediate.com/articles/frankelschauJ1.cfm?nl=98 -- more about typical lies told in mediation.  Well done.
• hFinalmente podemos anunciar que el libro completo, Mediación Interpersonal, Empoderamiento del Individuo se encuentra GRATIS en la red en http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/agro-laboral/7conflicto/  That is Gregorio Billikopf Encina's work now in Spanish.  See also
  • http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/ (English)
  • http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/agro-laboral/ (Spanish)
• http://jeffrey-feldman.typepad.com/frameshop/2006/01/frameshop_hunt__1.html#more -- metaphors for framing terrorism, alternates to the way we now think.  I should note that most of the site is an aggressive effort to frame things in a manner that viciously attacks the current administration without noting that is the core purpose of the site (compare http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/ which does the same thing from time to time, but the efforts are more transparent). However, the article is still good, irrespective of the place it is found in.
• http://keithseat.com/documents/MediationNewsandUpdatesfromKeithSeat--1-1-06.pdf -- nice newsletter, better than mine in many ways.
• http://www.adr.gov/cersnewsletters.htm -- Civil Enforcement and Regulatory Section (CERS) ADR Newsletter.
• We Have to Talk: A Step-By-Step Checklist for Difficult Conversations at http://www.hodu.com/checklist.shtml
• www.policyconsensus.org
• A Five Minute Refresher Course in Framing,from the FrameWorks Institute, online at http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/products/issue8framing.shtml . It is written in the context of public policy about children, but everything it says is relevant for whatever issue you might choose to substitute -- just substitute "global warming" or "homelessness" (or what interests you most) whenever a phrase about "children's issues" comes along in the text.  (Thanks to Ozarque for the pointer http://ozarque.livejournal.com/ ).
• CMDNET documents:  Article on empathic listening skills at http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7article/article40.htm
• Downloadable PDF file with conflict management case and party-directed approach to mediation.at http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7conflict/
• http://home.sullivan.edu/grad_school/graduate/curriculum/msdr/index.html -- an effort to create an 100% on-line Master of Science in Dispute Resolution.

Books/Research/Conferences

Summer Institute on Peacebuilding & Conflict Resolution (IPCR) 2006
June 10 – July 1, 2006
Santa Cruz, Bolivia
To see the complete program description and on-line application, visit the ACT website: http://www.conflicttransformation.org For more information contact Dr. Nike Carstarphen, Senior Partner, Alliance for Conflict Transformation, Inc., PO Box 9117, Alexandria, VA 22304, Phone: (703) 461-3650, Email: ipcr@conflicttransformation.org

Resolving Conflict Creatively in the School Community
"Negotiation" & "Mediation"
- two half hour videos (or DVD) with Teacher's Manual & Handouts

14th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION
May 5 - 15, 2006 St. Petersburg, Russia (Formal conference program May 6-11)
www.cbiworld.org

Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Practical Guide for Resolving Government Contract Controversies, Second Edition.  This book provides an updated, detailed exploration of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methodologies available for resolving contract controversies -- from the ABA. http://abastore.abanet.org/abastore/front_end/static/home_page.html&r=1

The upcoming Complexity and Organizational Robustness workshop to be help in Pohnpei, Micronesia in May 2007. To learning more about this event please visit: http://isce.edu/ISCE_Group_Site/web-content/ISCE%20Events/Pohnpei_2007.html

Other notices that might be of interest include:

3rd International Workshop on Complexity and Philosophy, Stellenbosch, South Africa, February, 2007 (paper proposal deadline - end of May, 2006): http://isce.edu/ISCE_Group_Site/web-content/ISCE%20Events/Stellenbosch_2007.html

Call for chapter proposals for Volume 4 of the Managing the Complex book series: Complexity and Knowledge Management (deadline for chapter proposals - end of March, 2006). http://isce.edu/ISCE_Group_Site/web-content/ISCE%20Publishing/MtC_V4.html

Employment

http://www.campus-adr.org/  -- new openings and updates.  Worth a visit.

Comments

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