Association for Conflict Resolution - Greater New York Chapter

Annual Conference

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Cardozo Law School

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

*** DUE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2013 ***

This year's conference theme will be Mainstreaming Creative Conflict Resolution.

Our theme grew out of a conversation about diversity in the field and how ACR-GNY is in the unique position in New York City and the surrounding area to be a broad based ADR organization.  We have divorce attorneys, and commercial arbitrators.  We have volunteer community mediators, and ombuds.  We boast a wide range of trainers and professors.  We welcome transformative mediators and neutral evaluators and everything in between.  We have young people and those that are new to the field, and we have a long list of members that have been in this field from the "early years" and watched it grow and change over decades.  We have facilitators, court employees, researchers, police officers, community activists, spiritual leaders, federal employees, corporate consultants and those that want to see ADR on TV.  We have former judges, international arbitrators and the advocates that go before them.

The list goes on and on.  This year's theme is meant to inspire a diverse and broad base of ADR professionals working formally or informally in the field.  ADR is coming into the mainstream of our culture, and for this year's conference, we want you to tell us: who, where and how.

We look forward to reading your proposals.  Accepted proposals will be notified by March 3, 2013. 

Although we won't be able to accept them all, Jeff and I would like to thank you very much for taking the time to submit your workshop entry.  It is important we take the time to put together what we have learned, and teach it to each other.  We very much appreciate your submission.

Access the form here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFdxcm1LeTcyZ0...

Elizabeth Clemants and Jeff Thompson

Annual Conference Co - Chairs