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Washington, DC
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The Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR)
announces the election of
Lou Gieszl as its president for 2010-2011.
Gieszl
is now serving a one-year term as president-elect
and will take over as president at the 2010 ACR
Conference. Gieszl
and new association leadership, elected in October,
took office at the conclusion of ACR's Annual
Conference in Atlanta on Saturday, October 10.
Gieszl is Deputy Executive Director of the Maryland
Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office (MACRO), a
judicial office working to advance appropriate
dispute resolution (ADR) throughout Maryland’s
courts, communities, schools, universities,
government agencies, criminal and juvenile justice
programs, and businesses. He is also an adjunct
professor at the University of Baltimore’s Program
on Negotiations and Conflict Management. He is on
the Board of Directors of the Institute for the
Study of Conflict Transformation, the nation’s
premier center for expertise on mediation in the
transformative framework.
Active in the field since the early 1990s, Gieszl
serves as a volunteer mediator and facilitator in
community, government and court settings. He holds
bachelors degrees in English, Philosophy, and
Political Science, and a Masters of Public Policy
degree, from University of Maryland Baltimore County
(UMBC).
About the Association for Conflict Resolution
The Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) is the
professional organization dedicated to enhancing the
practice and public understanding of conflict
resolution. ACR represents and serves a diverse
national and international audience that includes
nearly 5,000 mediators, arbitrators, facilitators,
educators, and others involved in the field of
conflict resolution. ACR also publishes Conflict
Resolution Quarterly Journal and ACResolution. For
more information about ACR, visit
http://www.ACRnet.org. |
