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>> ACR Update, July 1, 2003 <<
Published by the Association for Conflict
Resolution,
a merged organization of AFM, CREnet,
and SPIDR
http://www.acresolution.org
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WELCOME TO ACR UPDATE!
ACR Update is sent on a regular basis
to share important conflict
resolution news and organizational updates
with our members. We encourage
you to scroll through the items listed
below, and hope you'll find this
information useful. We look forward
to your feedback!
OVERVIEW OF ARTICLES
July 1, 2003
[1] ACR Conferences Update
* Register Now for the ACR Family Section
Conference: July 10-13, 2003
* ACR Training Section Conference: July
31-August 2, 2003
* ACR's Third Annual Conference: George
Mitchell to Deliver Keynote Address
[2] ACR Publications Update
[3] United States Consensus Council
Update
[4] ACR Chapters Update
[5] ACR Sections Update
[6] Quotes
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[1] ACR Conferences Update
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REGISTER NOW FOR ACR's FAMILY SECTION
CONFERENCE!
"A Family Affair: Making Room at
the Table"
July 10-13, 2003
Hyatt Hotel, Denver, Colorado
Online registration will end soon.
Please visit http://www.acresolution.org
to learn more about the Family Section
Conference and register now!
We are in the home stretch, with less
than two weeks to go. More than 60 speakers
will present 75 hours of information-packed
workshops at the conference. Psychologists
Joan Kelly and Bob Emery will discuss
"Children, Divorce, and Dispute
Resolution: Integrating Research and
Practice Perspectives" during the
Plenary. Other topics include: "Renegotiating
Family Relationships," "Building
Your Mediation Career," "Tackling
High Risk Cases," "Computer
Technology & Mediation," "Nuts
and Bolts of Property Division,"
and "Preventing and Responding
to Violent Situations."
In addition, there will be 10 forums
for discussion of cutting-edge topics
and issues such as: "Mentoring
and Evaluating New Mediators,"
"Barriers to Minority Mediators,"
and "The Secrets to Successfully
Marketing Mediation."
So, put on a Section T-shirt and join
us in a rousing chorus of "We Are
Family." It's a Family Affair!
We've saved a seat at the table just
for you.
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ACR'S TRAINING SECTION: 2003 MID-YEAR
TRAINING CONFERENCE AND MEETING
July 31- August 2, 2003
"The Federal Equal Employment Opportunity
(EEO) Program and Alternative
Dispute Resolution"
Courtyard Marriott
Cocoa Beach, Florida
This conference is designed to help
you to learn about the Equal Employment
Opportunity (EEO) alternative dispute
resolution process in the federal government.
Trainers will learn about the U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)'s
complaint process and its alternative
dispute resolution component. There
will be presentations by well-known
EEO practitioners, small group sessions,
and panel discussions.
Online registration will be available
soon. In the meantime, visit the ACR
Web site, http://www.acresolution.org
to download a registration form and
access conference and hotel information.
Please plan to join us in Cocoa Beach!
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ACR's THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE: GEORGE
MITCHELL TO DELIVER KEYNOTE ADDRESS
"The World of Conflict Resolution:
A Mosaic of Possibilities"
October 15-18, 2003
Orlando, Florida
Please visit our Web site, http://www.acresolution.org
for more information about conference
registration, hotel fees and deadlines.
The preliminary brochure is scheduled
to be mailed in July.
ACR is pleased to announce that the
former senator George J. Mitchell will
present the closing keynote address
at the 2003 ACR Annual Conference. Senator
Mitchell (D-Maine) served for 15 years
in the U.S. Senate and was the Majority
Leader from 1985-1995. In the mid 1990s,
Mitchell led the Clinton Administration's
successful negotiations to achieve a
peaceful political settlement in Northern
Ireland and was nominated for the 1998
Nobel Peace Prize for his role in this
effort. He currently chairs the Ethics
Committee of the U.S. Olympic Committee,
serves on the National Healthcare Commission
and the International Crisis Group,
and is Co-Chairman of the national commission
investigating the September 11th terrorist
attacks. Mitchell's early experience
as a lawyer and judge, followed by his
long and successful career in national
and international diplomacy, make him
a particularly appropriate speaker for
an audience of conflict resolvers.
Please plan to join us in Orlando in
October for this exciting conference!
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[2] ACR PUBLICATIONS UPDATE
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CONFLICT RESOULUTION QUARTERLY SUBMISSIONS
Volume 20, number 4 of Conflict Resolution
Quarterly (CRQ), ACR's academic peer-reviewed
journal, mails in early July. Please
consider submitting to this landmark
conflict resolution publication. If
you're interested in submitting, please
contact Editor-In-Chief Tricia Jones
at tsjones@temple.edu.
ACRESOLUTION SUBMISSIONS
MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
Members in the News, a subsection of
the magazine's In Brief section, is
the place for you to update your fellow
ACR members on recent developments in
your life and professional career. Found
a new job in the field? Appointed to
a new position? Received an award? Write
and tell us about it! Submissions should
be no longer than 50 - 100 words, should
be accompanied by a photo in JPEG or
TIFF format, scanned at 300 dpi (you
may send a photo hard copy if an electronic
version is not available), and should
note your ACR membership status and
history. Please note that we can only
include news about you once per volume
(4 issues). Submissions received in
July will go into the Fall issue of
the magazine, which mails in November.
BALANCING ACT
Balancing Act is a one-page department
in the magazine focusing on members
who are committed to developing themselves
as whole persons, both inside and outside
the workplace. Submissions of 500 to
600 words and photos should highlight
an after-hours activity or hobby that
enables you to feel centered and grounded
outside of your busy life as an ADR
professional. Please tell us about how
this activity or hobby revitalizes you,
helps you achieve balance in your personal
life, feeds your intellect, and nurtures
your soul. If you would like to present
an idea for Balancing Act, please send
us a short paragraph describing your
hobby. If selected, we will then ask
you to write a full page.
LEARNING MATTERS
We are always looking for short articles
that discuss various aspects of conflict
resolution education in schools, colleges,
and other environments. If you have
an experience to share, please let us
know.
DIVERSITY PRACTICES
This section of the magazine is devoted
to best practices in diversity and conflict
resolution and highlights innovative
strategies for effectively
responding to conflict within our increasingly
diverse community. (For this department
only, send submissions to Contributing
Editor Dr. Benjamin Reese at reesources1@aol.com.)
CONFERENCE CALENDAR
Please let us know about any upcoming
conferences in the field. We do not
list trainings in this section, but
we do inform our readers about any national
or international organizations that
are holding conferences related to ADR.
Please send all submissions to ACResolution's
Managing Editor, Mark Sawchuk, at msawchuk@acresolution.org,
accompanied by your complete name, contact
information, and primary professional
title.
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[3] United States Consensus Council
(USCC) Update
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SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS MADE TOWARD CREATION
OF USCC
Important progress was achieved recently
in efforts to pass legislation to create
the U.S. Consensus Council, a new organization
designed to help Congress and the nation
forge common ground solutions to major
legislative policy issues. This effort
has been organized and staffed by Search
for Common Ground, in coordination with
Consensus Council, Inc. (North Dakota),
the Montana Consensus Council and the
Policy Consensus Initiative. The USCC
was endorsed by the ACR Board of Directors
in July 2002.
On June 17, 2003, the Senate Governmental
Affairs Committee unanimously approved
S. 908, as amended, the U.S. Consensus
Council Act of 2003. From here the bill
moves to the Senate floor, with leadership
from Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), the
lead sponsor who also chairs the Governmental
Affairs Committee. Congress has already
approved, as part of the conference
report to Public Law 108-7 (the Fiscal
Year 2003 omnibus appropriations bill),
$1 million in start up funds for the
USCC, subject to the passage of authorizing
legislation.
Efforts to pass a House bill also are
underway. On June 12, 2003, Representative
Dennis Rehberg (R-MT) introduced H.R.
2459, the nearly identical House companion
bill to S. 908. Co-sponsors include
Representatives Chet Edwards (D-TX),
Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO), Edolphus Towns
(D-NY), James Walsh (R-NY), Charles
Stenholm (D-TX), Todd Platts (R-PA),
and Earl Pomeroy (D-ND). The bill has
been referred to the Committee on Government
Reform. Backers of this initiative are
seeking Congressional passage this year.
For more information on the USCC, please
go to http://www.usconsensuscouncil.org.
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[4] ACR Chapters Update
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ACR BOARD APPROVES THREE CHAPTERS
ACR is pleased to announce the approval
of three Chapters' Bylaws and Articles
of Incorporation: ACR-Chicago, an existing
ACR Chapter, and
ACR-Florida and ACR-Michigan Southeast,
two new Chapters to ACR. Please see
information below on how to join these
chapters.
ACR-GNY CELEBRATES DIVERSITY AT ITS
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
More than 100 dispute resolvers attended
the Greater New York Chapter of ACR
(ACR-GNY)'s successful Annual Conference
this past June. The
conference theme was "Diversity:
Celebrating the Fabric of the Conflict
Resolution Field." The Chapter
showed "Return to the Promised
Land," the follow-up to the award-winning
1988 documentary by filmmaker Robert
Gardner and Pulitzer Prize-winning former
New York Times Middle East correspondent
David K. Shipler. "Arab and Jew:
Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land."
The Chapter also honored Hon. Judith
S. Kaye, Chief Judge of the New York
State Court of Appeals with its 2003
ADR Achievement Award.
ACR-NEW ENGLAND TO HOLD REGIONAL ANNUAL
CONFERENCE
The New England Chapter of ACR (NE-ACR)
will hold its Annual Conference November
13-14, 2003 on "Beyond Dispute
to the Conflict" with Keynote Speaker
Bernie Mayer, Ph.D., ACR Board Director
and author of Dynamics of Conflict Resolution:
A Practitioner's Guide. Please visit
http://www.neacr.org for more information.
ACR-NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TO HOLD NEW
MONTHLY FORUMS
The Northern California Chapter of ACR
will start to hold monthly meetings
run by members to facilitate brainstorming
and networking. The meetings will be
held every third Monday of the month
from 7-8:30 pm. To find out more information
please visit http://www.adrnc.org.
JOIN AN ACR CHAPTER TODAY!
Below is a list of ACR Chapters by country,
state and region. Contact information
for each Chapter may be found on the
ACR Web site,
http://www.acresolution.org (click "Go
to Chapters"). Please contact Chapter
presidents for information about their
region.
Don't see a Chapter listed in your
area? To learn how to form a new ACR
Chapter, please contact Amanda Andere
at aandere@acresolution.org.
CANADA
British Columbia
UNITED STATES
Arizona
California - Central
California - Los Angeles
California - Northern
California - San Diego
Chicago
Colorado
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Indiana
Maryland
Michigan - Southeast
Minnesota
New England
New Jersey
North Carolina
New York - Greater Metro
South Carolina
Texas - Dallas/Fort Worth
Texas - Houston
Virginia
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[5] ACR Sections Update
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EDUCATION SECTION
The Education Section is excited about
the conflict resolution education offerings
at ACR's Third Annual Conference. In
addition to the many
workshops of interest to those in the
Education Section, there will be Round
Table discussions where Section members
may share ideas and concerns. In addition,
a pre-conference Education Section Meeting
is scheduled for Thursday morning just
prior to the opening plenary. Guests
will include Sharon Bailey, NCPCR, Carolyn
Benne, CNCR, Joanne Galindo, NAFCM,
Cynthia Pon, Teaching Tolerance, and
Simona Sharoni, PSJA. The second Education
Section meeting will be held on Friday
and followed by a reception from 7:00
- 8:30 pm. There will be yet another
chance to network on Saturday afternoon
after the conference closes.
The Education Section's newsletter,
The Fourth R, will be available by the
end of summer 2003! It will have a new
face and many new features. Newsletter
editor Macia Sweedler and her diverse
and talented editorial board are working
hard to create an exciting and revitalized
publication for the Section.
RESTORATIVE AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SECTION
The Restorative and Criminal Justice
Section now has more than 140 members.
Our first newsletter has gone out to
Section members, thanks to the dedicated
work of newsletter editor Marco Turk
and ACR Publications Editor Mark Sawchuk.
We also are collaborating on several
projects with other mediation organizations
and other Sections of ACR.
One of our goals is to introduce the
restorative justice philosophy -- both
within the United States and internationally
-- to people who are not
familiar with the concept of healing
the harm that has been done. Restorative
Justice uses mediation and other dispute
roesolution processes
to work with victims, offenders, communities
and others involved in minor and serious
crimes,
Our Section is promoting a "restorative
mediation" initiative advanced
by one of our Section members, Douglas
Noll, who has written a book on the
subject. Restorative mediation can be
used in civil and criminal cases, or
in cases such as embezzlement that have
elements of both. It also can be used
in situations that have relationship,
financial and other kinds of issues,
such as business or family matters.
TRAINING SECTION
ACR's Training Section will present
its first mid-year training conference
and meeting July 31-August 2, 2003 in
Cocoa Beach, Florida. For more
information on this exciting event,
"The Federal Equal Employment Opportunity
(EEO) Program and Alternative Dispute
Resolution," please visit
the ACR Web site, http://www.acresolution.org.
WORKPLACE SECTION UPDATE
On May 17, the Leadership Council of
the Workplace Section met to clarify
the section's strategy and goals.
On May 28, the Workplace Section hosted
a conference call with Judge James Tamm
who discussed his work and research
results from a study funded by the State
of California, the William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation and the Stuart Foundation.
James Tamm, now Managing Director of
the international consulting firm BCon
Will Schutz Associates, reviewed the
key elements necessary for large scale
implementation of collaboration skills
in an employment environment.
On June 13, the Workplace Section hosted
an informative conference call with
Peggy McNeive, Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service (FMCS) Acting Director
of the Access to Neutrals Initiative.
She discussed the background, the schedule
and the process for being accepted as
a Neutral with FMCS with this initiative.
Over 200 people registered for this
call. The official period for comments
ends July 7, 2003. See http://www.fmcs.gov
for more information. The Workplace
Section's Public Policy Committee, in
collaboration with ACR's Legislative/Public
Policy Committee, is preparing comments
to submit.
The Workplace Section and ACR are exhibiting
at the 18th Annual FDR (Federal Dispute
Resolution) Conference in Orlando in
August 2003. If you are an ACR or Workplace
Section member who is attending the
FDR conference and would like to join
us, please contact Dolores Crawford
at CrawfordD@gao.gov.
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[6] Quotes
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Liberty means responsibility. That is
why most men dread it. -- George Bernard
Shaw, Man and Superman, "Maxims:
Liberty and Equality," 1905
Those who deny freedom to others deserve
it not for themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln
The love of one's country is a splendid
thing. But why should love stop at the
border? -- Pablo Casals
I have no sense of nationalism, only
a cosmic consciousness of belonging
to the human family. -- Rosika Schwimmer
If I knew something that would serve
my country but would harm mankind, I
would never reveal it; for I am a citizen
of humanity first and by
necessity, and a citizen of France second,
and only by accident. -- Montesquieu
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