5th Annual Warren Knight Award Presented to the Center for Conflict Resolution

Chicago – The JAMS Foundation’s Fifth Annual Warren Knight Award will be presented to the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago, along…

I’ve commented before on the wonderful work done by the Distance Mediation Project conducted by the Mediate BC Society in British Columbia.  As I’ve noted in this piece on e-mediation, they were the first to conduct serious evaluation on a carefully structured e-mediation project. Based on this experience, the Distance Mediation Project…

Fifth Annual Warren Knight Award Presented to the Center for Conflict Resolution

April 5, 2013

Chicago – The JAMS Foundation’s Fifth Annual Warren Knight Award will be presented to the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago, along with a $25,000 grant. The award recognizes the work CCR has done with individuals, communities, courts and other institutions to manage and resolve conflicts. The organization received the award at the ABA Dispute…

As long as I can remember when I heard people yell at each other, or one person yelling at someone, I reacted internally with fear. I do not know how to articulate my fears. I just know there was something unnerving for me. When I began to work in the conflict management field I was increasingly exposed to situations in which people yelled and I became more and more aware of the range of things that seemed to incite people to scream at one another. To do my work effectively, I reflected on…

Elder mediation can enhance family communication skills and change the face of health care as we know it. It promotes dignity and respect and enhances the quality of life for all concerned. Elder mediation is a focused, preventative, respectful process – usually multi-party, multi-issue and intergenerational - whereby a trained elder…

If you're in Europe this June, swing by the transformative mediation conference organized by Quadra.  More information available here.

I have used the expression “the straw that broke the camel’s back” or a similar idiom when referring to an incident that pushes an ongoing situation too far across a line of tolerance. I didn’t know the derivation of this particular expression and when I looked it up I found the meaning is consistent with this same notion.

According to Wikipedia, the straw that broke the camel’s back is…

In this age of instant communication and instant gratification sexting has become all too common for those in love. Teenagers are no different, while many teens openly admit that they know it's wrong to send these sexual photos, many feel the odds of getting caught are…

In this episode of the Conflict Specialists Show, Dave Hilton interviews Dan Rainey- Chief of Staff of the National Mediation Board. This was the debut episode of the show from October 2012.

Some of the topics in today's episode:

• The National Mediation Board (NMB)
• Online Dispute Resolution…

Impasse Is A Fallacy…

Impasse Is A Fallacy

 

Guest writer Lee Jay Berman is a professional mediator and President of…

Michelle Zaremba, coordinator of the Dayton Mediation Center, believes that her center's commitment to the transformative approach is central to their success.  My latest blog post, which you can see here, includes comments form Michelle, as well as her presentation to the City Commissioners of Dayton.

Join us as our next guest, Giuseppe Leone, discusses Helping Mediators Around the World Practice and Improve Their Skills via Skype. 

The…

Forgive me. I apologize. I was an idiot. You didn’t deserve what I said. I was so wrong. I didn’t mean it. You are a saint for putting up with me. Will you please forgive me? In whatever form requests for forgiveness take, it is not incumbent upon the receiver to forgive. For some reason many people think they ‘should’ forgive or at least say they do. It’s just not always that straightforward.

When it comes to interpersonal conflict, we all have our own range of thresholds – what is…

To all of the mediators who believe in transparency, take a look at this short clip and let me know if being transparent is always good.  Enjoy  :)

Appddiction Studio’s Stop Bullies district wide smartphone app empowers bystanders to capture bully events as they occur and report them to school administrators in real time. School administrators can then begin to investigate…

Cinnie Noble- When considering that one response to being provoked is to freeze, this week’s blog encourages thinking about what that means and what to do about it. So, what does freezing mean in the context of conflict? It may…