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2013 ACR Annual Awards Call for Nominations

ACR invites your nomination of candidates for the awards listed below. These awards are given in recognition of superior performance in, and outstanding contributions made to, the field of alternative dispute resolution. Your assistance in identifying worthy candidates will help us to honor those who work tirelessly to promote the use of ADR for addressing conflicts. READ MORE

2013 ACR Public Education Series

The ACR Public Education Committee is pleased to announce a new series of educational articles focusing on diverse and exciting practice areas within the alternative dispute resolution field. We hope to provide a fresh look at the strategies, tools and techniques that are being applied around the world from our community mediation centers to the workplace to international conflicts. READ MORE

ACR Bloggers

ACR Update April 2013: President's Message

Dear Colleagues, I am delighted to announce that next month, you will begin to receive ACR Updates in a new format. The new ACR Update will be weekly, rather than monthly, and will include more information about ACR events and activities condensed into one email. READ MORE

Making Peace Happen with Adele Grunberg

For the last five months, over the course of eleven mediation sessions, I have been meeting with two sides of a family (two pairs of siblings who are cousins to each other) who are in business together. For three generations, there has been conflict and discord causing the business and the family members to suffer a great deal. READ MORE

Conference and Events

International Centre for Parliamentary Studies: Professional Certificate in Conflict Transformation

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ACR Chicago Chapter Advanced Training: Mental Illness and Mediation Cultural Sensitivity and Accessibility

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ACR General Workplace Section Teleseminar: Applying for ACR’s Advanced Practitioner Status in Workplace Mediation and Arbitration

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ACR Workplace Section’s Conflict Coaching Committee Teleseminar(2)

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ACR General Workplace Section Teleseminar: Moving From Conflict to Cooperation

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Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies Negotiation Training

This course integrates traditional negotiation skills with groundbreaking tec Read More

Canadian School of Peacebuilding-Train the Trainer: Working for Conflict Transformation

This event is hosted by Canadian Mennonite University.We invite peacebuil Read More

Finding Your Voice: Understanding Nonviolent Action for Today's Complex World

Finding Your Voice: Understa Read More

2013 ACR Minnesota Chapter Annual Meeting & Dinner

2013 CRM Annual Meeting & DinnerWHAT A YEAR!The 2013 Read More

ACR Greater New York Chapter-12th Annual Conference

Our 2013 Conference will provide a forum for over 200 dispute resolution professional Read More

ACR International Section Webinar about Peace Work in Northern Uganda

On Wed. June 19, 11 a.m. EDT, the Association for Conflict Resolution's Internat Read More

What Is Conflict Resolution?

What is Conflict Resolution?

Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) refers to any process or collection of processes established to resolve disputes without trial or violence. The term “ADR” is often used to refer to a broad category of “ADR processes” such as negotiation, conciliation, mediation, settlement conferences, arbitration, consensus building, and community conferencing. READ MORE

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