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

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 Resolution Conference in Chicago.

CCR is one of the most respected and successful community dispute resolution centers in the United States. Established more than 30 years ago as the Neighborhood Justice of Chicago by the Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Association...

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e-Mediation: More and More

Noam Ebner- 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 also composed a much-required set of practice guidelines for online mediation. The cherry on top of this was their assessing of the project’s environmental impact, which led the way for this study of ODR’s environmental advantages, which is detailed in this paper.

Now, the Distance Mediation Process has done it again!...

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ACR Commercial Section teleseminar - "Five Failures of Mediation … ...

Although settlement rates may be high, the level of satisfaction by individual parties to mediation may be at an all-time low. Accounts of the mediation process and its outcome described by first time users of mediation indicate disappointment and unfulfilled expectations. Why is mediation failing to meet its promise? Harry Kaminsky, Principal, Kaminsky Mediation Consulting will discuss where mediation has come up short and what we as mediators can do to bring greater satisfaction to the process.

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The Magic of Elder Mediation

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 mediator ensures, as much as possible, that all who need to be are present in the mediation. The mediator facilitates discussions focusing on present strengths and assists participants in exploring their stated issues or concerns. This form of mediation often involves the many people related to the issues, such as family members, caregivers, organizations, agencies and/or any named service providers...

Upcoming ACR Blog Radio Show

On April 10, 2013 at 1:30 pm EST we will present a 15-min radio show episode featuring 2013 ACR Annual Conference Keynote Speaker Grande Lum. Mr. Lum is the new Director of the United States Department of Justice Community Relations Program. The show will preview Mr. Lum’s session at the ACR Annual Conference and what the United States Department of Justice Community Relations Program is doing to Make Peace Happen, in line with the conference theme, Making Peace Happen: New Normals.

Read more and learn to how to participate [HERE].

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