What Works! Innovations in Conflict Resolution Education:

Early Childhood to Higher Education

National Conference on Conflict Resolution in Education
May 5th - 8th, 2004
Columbus, Ohio

SAVE THE DATE!!

The Education Section of ACR invites you to attend the national conference, What Works! Innovations in Conflict Resolution Education: Early Childhood to Higher Education in Columbus, Ohio May 5th - 8th, 2004, sponsored by the Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management, the Interfaith Center for Peace, the Association for Conflict Resolution, and the Ohio Resource Network.

The conference will focus on conflict resolution innovations specifically for higher education, pre-K-12 schools, and high school students. This exciting event will bring together college and university faculty, educators, practitioners, high school students and community members from across Ohio and the U.S. to explore positive models for reducing and managing conflict with a goal to create safe and healthy learning environments.

The ACR Education Section will host it's mid-year meeting at the conference, Thursday, May 6, from 4:00 p.m, continuing through dinner, and on into the evening until 8:30 p.m. For more information, please visit the Education Section Web site.

General participants are invited to attend two-day pre-conference intensive training sessions, May 5th and 6th, followed by two days of keynote lectures from nationally recognized experts, intensive workshops on programs, and strategies and theories for building peaceful school and university communities, May 7th and 8th.

Keynote speakers include: Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Co-Developer of the Social Decision Making-Social Problem Solving Program who will speak on Conflict Resolution Education and Social and Emotional Learning: Preparing Children for the Tests of Life; Tricia S. Jones, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychological Studies, Temple University who will speak on Kids Working It Out; and Janet Patti, Ed.D., Coordinator of the Education Administration and Supervision Program, Hunter College of the City University of New York, who will speak on Smart School Leaders: Using Emotional Intelligence to Lead Schools.

RCHs, CEUs for teachers, counselors and social workers and graduate credit, will be offered.

Complete conference information and registration forms are available on the Commission's Web site at www.disputeresolution.ohio.gov/ and at www.peace-center.org.