Noam Ebner with Ava Abramowitz, Michael Green, Chris Guthrie, Lela Love, and Nancy Welsh

The Appreciating our Legacy and Engaging the Future conference held at Pepperdine Law School and co-sponsored by the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, ABA Section of Dispute Resolution and Texas A&M’s Aggie Dispute Resolution Program got off to a wonderful start, with over 150 ADR educators and professionals filling the room. After opening remarks,…

In October 2018, Creighton's 2040 Initiative and Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (NCR) Program hosted the conversation "Disrupting Law, Reclaiming Justice" with a focus on Rules for a Flat World, Dr. Gillian Hadfield's timely and important book offering a critique of current law and legal infrastructure.  Law and lawyers, according to Hadfield, are  not available to most people both in the U.S. and worldwide and are concurrently unable to meet the sophisticated…

Check out this article, winner of the AALS Section on ADR's Best Article of 2018 award, in which Donna Shestowsky explores how litigants make their decisions as to which dispute resolution process to choose.

The member-led, professional association for Organizational Ombuds is seeking applicants to be its Executive Director. The part-time, contract position will be the public champion and…

From the State of the Union, to the State of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

In a new, timely, special issue of…

I’m very excited to share that my book, co-edited with friend and colleague Prof. Ayub Khan, has been published.

The Palgrave Handbook of Cross-Cultural Business Negotiation goes beyond ‘negotiation with a business twist.’ After covering the basics, the book focuses on the realities of contemporary international business, in which cross-cultural negotiation has become the norm rather than the exception, and in which…

‘’On the surface, warfare and negotiation may seem to be polar opposites. The objective in war is to defeat the enemy. In negotiation, the goal is to find a solution that satisfies all the parties. Not surprisingly, little cross-learning and exchange have occurred across the two domains. In spite of important…

A Columbia University researcher is conducting a study to understand the experiences of women in the STEM professions when they negotiate. Negotiation is an important skill and necessary for performing well in the workplace. As part of this study, the researcher is conducting 60-90-minute individual interviews of women who are in one of the STEM professions (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and have

• Less than 5 years work…

The Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) is seeking a dynamic and creative Executive Director to lead and enhance the organization. ACR is a non-profit membership association committed to educational activities that promote peaceful, effective conflict resolution, both nationally and internationally.

The Executive Director, as an outside Contractor, will work closely with an active Board of Directors and will have a key role in being responsive to the needs of membership,…

The Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (NCR) Program in the Creighton University Graduate School is excited to invite you to Disrupting Law, Reclaiming Justice - an upcoming event at Creighton that brings to the Heartland a national conversation about the need to remake the legal system - for it to be more responsive to more people, to business, to our changing population, and to the globally-interconnected and complex world we live in. 

On Monday, October…

“Dismissal is divided into three categories: dismissals for misconduct, for incapacity and based on operational requirements. This division, which conforms with the ILO Termination of Employment Convention 158 of 1982 and Recommendation 166 0f 1982, is a happy one. It covers the field, encompassing all culpable and non-culpable conduct…

ADRHub is happy to share Creighton University's Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Program's Annual Impact Report, detailing the Program's activity over the course of the 2017-8 academic year. Our alumni, students and faculty have been very busy in teaching, writing, and…

IOA Conference Committee presentation proposals, speaker, and topic suggestions for it's 14th annual conference on the theme of “Ombuds:…

What's Happening in Conflict Resolution is a roundup of the all the ADR news, research, jobs, events and more. Check it out, and view past versions [What's Happening in Conflict Resolution is a roundup of the all the ADR news, research, jobs, events and more. Check it out, and view past versions […

Dr. Amanda Guidero has completed a 2-year postdoctoral position with the NCR program, and has transitioned into her new role as Assistant Professor of Conflict.

Like almost everyone across the political spectrum in the US (and most of the world), I am appalled by Trump’s smarmy, self-serving, incompetent and cowardly behavior in Helsinki, before that at the NATO summit and in the UK, and since.

I am appalled because Trump is once again saying it’s all Obama and Clinton ‘s fault, while he is wonderful, and so is Putin.

I am appalled because Trump yet again equated the effort to uncover what really happened in the last election with a…

NCR Program professors (Palma Strand and Jacqueline Font-Guzmán) presented at two different panels at the Law and Society Conference, both on social justice issues: tax inequality & critical race and gender.

One of the panels was with Prof. Nick Mirkay, faculty at William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai’i and another panel with Prof.…

In ODR for All, put out on Mediate.come, David Larson and Lainey Feingold explain the need for Online Dispute Resolution systems to be designed with digital accessibility and disability accommodation in mind, right from the start. 

Check out this workshop, entitled "Eye of the storm: Facilitating complex conversations in the midst of tumult," which will be given on July 16th-20th in Portland, Oregon. Flyer.pdf

Call for Proposals

Graduate Student Research Panels at

Association for Conflict Resolution

2018 Annual Conference…