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>> ACR Update, January 8, 2004 <<
Published by the Association for Conflict Resolution,
a merged organization of AFM, CREnet, and SPIDR
http://www.ACRnet.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
January 8, 2004

[1] Join the ACR Annual Fund Campaign
[2] ACR Publications Update
[3] ACR Sections Update
[4] ACR Chapters Update
[5] Quotes

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[1] Join the ACR Annual Fund Campaign
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ACR INVITES MEMBERS TO JOIN THE ANNUAL FUND CAMPAIGN

Donate to ACR and join the Board and Leadership in participating in the Annual Fund. Your donation will help keep membership available to a diverse group of professionals and volunteers, support urgently needed activities that will benefit society, and enhance ACR's standing in the global community. Please visit http://www.acrnet.org/giving to donate online today.

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[2] ACR Publications Update
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CONFLICT RESOLUTION QUARTERLY SUBMISSIONS

Conflict Resolution Quarterly is ACR’s quarterly academic journal. Its mission is to publish scholarship on relationships between theory, research, and practice in the conflict management and dispute resolution field to promote more effective professional applications. Articles should be directed to a multidisciplinary audience and be as readable and practical as possible. Submissions and questions regarding editorial matters should be sent to Tricia S. Jones, Editor, Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Dept. of Psychological Studies, College of Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122. You may also e-mail Tricia at tsjones@astro.temple.edu.

ACRESOLUTION SUBMISSIONS

Planning is now underway for the Spring and Summer issues of ACResolution magazine. Anyone wishing to submit a feature article for the Summer issue, whose theme will be Restorative and Criminal Justice, should submit a short abstract or proposal no later than March 1, 2004. Please send all submissions to ACResolution's Managing Editor, Mark Sawchuk, at msawchuk@ACRnet.org, accompanied by your complete name, contact information, and primary professional title.

We accept submissions to other departments of the magazine on a rolling basis. Please consider submitting to any of the following departments.

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 an exciting 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 January will go into the Spring issue (May 2004) of the magazine.

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.)

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[3] ACR Sections Update
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INTERNATIONAL SECTION UPDATE

ACR's October 2003 Orlando Conference brought International Section members together from throughout the world and was a great success! The Section organized a Joint Meeting and Reception with the Consumer Section that hosted presentations about conflict resolution in different countries and regions of the world. The featured guest was Dr. Petronio Muñiz from Brazil, the co-author of Brazil's arbitration law. Led by colleagues from the Latin American ADR Committee, Section members had an excellent dialogue about interpretation and Hispanic programming for the 2004 Sacramento conference.

In other news, the Section is continuing to work on its quarterly newsletter International Section News, and is excited to announce quarterly articles in Spanish, beginning in February, as well as a future English-Spanish Web page. The Section also submitted a grant proposal to CRInfo for funding to edit certain portions of the existing CRInfo.org database in the areas of the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and Latin America, and for data collection on conflict and alternative dispute resolution throughout Latin America to add to CRInfo.org. We are looking forward to an exciting 2004!

To learn more about, or get involved in, ACR's many topical Sections, please visit the ACR Web site, http://www.ACRnet.org.

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[4] ACR Chapters Update
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DC-ACR TO HOST BROWN BAG

The DC Chapter of ACR will host a brown bag on Wednesday, January 14, 2004 from 12 to 1:15pm at the U.S. Department of the Interior, Room 7000A (on the 7th floor level), on C Street between 18th and 19th Streets, N.W. in Washington, DC. The brown bag will focus on “Building Community Consensus for Restoring a Contaminated Site: Workshop for Mediators,” with presenter E. Franklin Dukes, Ph.D.

NEW CHAPTER-IN-FORMATION TO HOST FIRST MEETING
The new Arizona Chapter-in-Formation will host a meeting on January 9, 2004. Please contact Kathy McCormick at KMcCormi@Courts.sp.state.az.us for more information.

To learn more about ACR's Chapters, please visit the ACR Web site, http://www.ACRnet.org.

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[5] Quotes
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -- Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire. -- Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
-- T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. -- Swedish Proverb

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