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>> "ACR Update, October 31,
2001" <<
Published by the Association for Conflict
Resolution,
a merged organization of AFM, CREnet,
and SPIDR
http://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 -- we're
sure you'll find this information very
useful and we look forward to your feedback!
CONTENTS OF ACR UPDATE
October 31, 2001
[1] ACR Welcomes David A. Hart
* Meet Our New CEO
[2] ACR Annual Conference
* 2001 ACR Conference Closing
* 2002 ACR Conference Call for Proposals
[3] ACR Section News
* Organizational Conflict Management
Section
* Family Section
* New ACR Section Considered
[4] Publications Update
* ACResolution Call for Submissions
[5] Featured Product
* "Best Practices for Government
Agencies - Guidelines for Using Collaborative
Agreement-Seeking Processes"
[6] Reader Feedback
* Blaine Greenfield
* Art Williams
[7] Featured Article
* "Transformative Tools: A Tool
Kit for Transformative Mediation,"
by Joel Levine
[8] ACR Newsbriefs
* New Staff Member
[9] Free Resources on Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder and Terrorism
[10] Quotes
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[1] ACR Welcomes David A. Hart
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Meet Our New CEO!
The Association for Conflict Resolution
(ACR) is pleased to announce the appointment
of David A. Hart as the organization's
new Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Hart
succeeds Daniel Bowling, the former
CEO of ACR, who will assume a new position
as Executive Director of Duke University
Law School's Private Adjudication Center
and teach conflict resolution and related
courses at the law school.
David Hart brings extensive experience
in alternative dispute resolution to
his new role with ACR. He is the former
director of the Americans with Disabilities
Act Mediation Program, a national mediation
program funded by the U.S. Dept. of
Justice and administered through the
Key Bridge Foundation in Washington,
D.C. David has served as Executive Director
of local, state, and national nonprofit
organizations and has worked on a variety
of projects for the United States Institute
of Peace.
To read the full text of the press
release announcing David Hart's appointment,
click here: http://acresolution.org/research.nsf/key/CEO-David
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[2] ACR Annual Conference
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2001 ACR Conference Closing & 2002
ACR Conference Call for Proposals
ACR's launch event in Toronto, "Coming
Together: Community, Connection &
Conflict," was a remarkable success!
More then 1400 attendees and presenters
participated in over 200 workshops,
sharing and learning together to create
a wonderful conference experience. Thank
you to all who attended, and we hope
you will plan on joining us for the
next annual conference --“Coastal
Collaboration: Emerging Practices in
a New Era of Conflict Resolution”
-- which will be held August 21-24,
2002 in San Diego, California.
If you would like to submit a proposal
for the 2002 Conference, please click
here to review the Call for Proposals:
http://www.acresolution.org/research.nsf/key/conferences
If you would like a hard copy, please
contact the ACR office. Proposals for
the 2002 conference are due by Friday,
November 30, 2001.
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[3] ACR Section News
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ACR Organizational Conflict Management
Section Conference
Make your plans now to attend the ACR
Organizational Conflict Management Section
Conference at the Sheraton Colony Square
Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, November
29-December 1, 2001. The conference
program has been designed to offer attendees
numerous opportunities for networking,
idea exchanges, theory discussion, and
an in-depth look at issues involving
"Open Space Technology." Located
in Midtown Atlanta, the Sheraton Colony
Square Hotel provides easy access to
restaurants, galleries, and theaters.
For more information and a copy of the
brochure, please click here: http://www.acresolution.org/research.nsf/key/conferences,
or contact Erin Weiss in the ACR Conferences
& Programs Department at (202) 667-9700,
ext. 210, or via e-mail at eweiss@acresolution.org.
ACR Family Section Conference
The ACR Family Section Conference,
"Many Faces of Family Mediation,"
will be held at the Marriott Riverside
in Savannah, Georgia, February 28-March
2, 2002. We are excited about the events
planned, as well as all the different
possibilities for workshops. Mock mediations
with expert mediators will not only
provide an opportunity to observe master
mediators at work, but also encourage
an interactive format to find out why
mediators do what they do when they
do it. The conference brochure and full
registration will be available online
at the ACR Web site, http://www.acresolution.org/research.nsf/key/conferences,
and in hard copy in December. We look
forward to seeing you in Savannah early
next year!
New ACR Section Considered
The Association for Conflict Resolution
is considering the formation of a Crisis
Negotiation Section, in which members
can network and collaborate on a wide-range
of issues involved in crisis resolution
in the areas of school violence, family
and community relations, workplace and
international crises, and law enforcement
and government hostage/barricade situations.
It also would provide opportunities
at the annual ACR conference to meet
other practitioners, receive training,
and learn new information and skills
in the emerging field of Crisis Resolution.
The Section will be co-chaired by Dr.
Mitch Hammer, professor at American
University and for 15 years a consultant
to the FBI in the field of diversity
and crisis and hostage negotiation.
If you are interested in becoming a
member of this Section, please contact
Lynne Kinnucan, Chapter/Section Coordinator
for the Association for Conflict Resolution,
at lkinnucan@acresolution.org or, by
telephone, at (202) 667-9700.
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[4] Publications Update
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Call for Submissions ACResolution
We are eager to receive member contributions
to ACR’s new organizational magazine,
ACResolution, which launched in October.
The deadline for submissions to the
April 2002 issue is December 20, 2001.
We welcome your contributions to the
following departments:
Balancing Act focuses on members who
are committed to ‘walking the
talk’ and developing themselves
as whole persons, both inside and outside
the workplace. Submissions of 150-250
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 a conflict resolver.
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.
What Would You Do? Ethical dilemmas?
Seemingly intractable conflicts? Trouble
“walking the talk” with
colleagues, partners, family members?
Your own biases and expectations getting
in the way? Please describe (in 250
words or less) an experience that raised
a question for you regarding effective
conflict resolution practice. Senior
practitioners in the field will respond
to your queries with suggestions and
advice.
Voices is a one-page collection of
quotations about conflict resolution
and peacemaking that relate to a particular
issue’s theme. (The theme of the
April 2002 issue is conflict resolution
in the workplace.) Please send us quotes
related to our field that you find compelling
and educative.
Letters to the Editor are both welcome
and encouraged as a means of enhancing
the dialogue between ACResolution and
its readers. (ACResolution reserves
the right to edit letters for space.)
If an article or column encourages or
frustrates you, we want to hear about
it!
General interest columns may include:
Section and Chapter news, members in
the news (awards, personnel moves, etc.),
and calendar information (conferences
and other activities or events related
to conflict resolution).
National and Regional Legislative and
Public Policy Updates. Please help us
raise member awareness by submitting
updates and highlights of conflict resolution-related
legislative and public policy news found
in the local, regional, and national
media.
All submissions should be e-mailed with
complete contact information to ACR
Publications Manager Susan Williams
at swilliams@acresolution.org <mailto:swilliams@acresolution.org>
Submissions may also be sent on an IBM-compatible
disk to Publications Manager, ACR, 1527
New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Third Floor,
Washington, DC 20036. Please note that
ACR reserves the right not to publish
any submission for any reason, and that
submissions accepted for publication
may be edited for space and conformity
to accepted standards of language usage,
grammar, and punctuation.
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[5] Featured Product
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Each ACR Update will feature a new
product that reflects the wide range
of
interests and subject areas of our members.
Our featured product for this update
is:
"Designing Integrated Conflict
Management Systems: Guidelines for Practitioners
and Decisionmakers in Organizations"
This recently released report was prepared
by a committee of the SPIDR ADR in the
Workplace Initiative, and is the fourth
publication in the Cornell Studies in
Conflict and Dispute Resolution series.
The intended audience includes employers,
managers, labor representatives, employees,
civil and human rights organizations,
and others who interact with organizations.
In the report, the authors explain why
organizations should consider developing
integrated conflict management systems,
and offer pragmatic development and
implementation guidelines.
This valuable report is available for
US$15. To order your copy, contact:
Cornell/PERC Institute on Conflict Resolution
621 Catherwood Library Tower
Ithaca, NY 14853-3901
Voice: 607/255-5378
Fax: 607/255-6974
E-mail: mlh14@cornell.edu
Web site: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ICR
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[6] Reader Feedback
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We are interested in getting your feedback.
What do you think of ACR Update? ACResolution?
Annual and Section Conferences? How
can we ensure ACR better serves you,
our members?
Feedback on ACR Update includes Blaine
Greenfield, who wrote:
"Great job on ACR Update. It is
very informative. Please keep sending
it
out on a regular basis."
And Art Williams had this to say about
the ACR First Annual International Conference:
"The Toronto Conference was great.
Please thank all who put in the hard
work (in such hard times). Being new
to ACR, I was like a kid in a candy
shop."
Please send your feedback on ACR Update,
ACResolution, Conflict Resolution Quarterly,
or other ACR services by e-mail to <mailto:feedback@acresolution.org>.
We will include reader feedback in
future online ACR Updates.
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[7] Featured Article
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We are committed to educating our members
and the general public about
conflict resolution. In each ACR Update,
we will feature a new article
that we think will be of value to our
members.
This week, our featured article is:
"Transformative Tools: A Tool
Kit for Transformative Mediation,"
by Joel Levine
It is rarely possible to pinpoint the
exact moment when a new sociological,
psychological, political, economic or
mediation movement begins. Threads of
new approaches are gradually woven into
a discipline's fabric before being memorialized
in a defining article or text. However,
if such a moment exists for the transformative
model of mediation, it is perhaps the
publication in 1994 of The Promise of
Mediation, by Robert Baruch Bush and
Joseph Folger. This article will not
elaborate much on the transformative
style; other publications have handled
that task quite well. Suffice it to
say that the transformative method recognizes
and empowers parties in the broadest
possible way. Certainly, aspects of
this method are incorporated into traditional
mediation techniques, but while those
traditional methods have elements of
direction, judgment, evaluation and
opinion, transformative mediation eschews
these approaches, embracing instead
the parties' ability to control the
process and exchange views with each
other. Where problem-solving and reaching
settlement is the primary goal of directive
mediation, building relationships and
mutual understanding is the goal of
a transformative mediation intervention.
Read the entire article by clicking
the following link:
http://acresolution.org/research.nsf/key/TransTools
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[8] ACR Newsbriefs -- New Staff Member
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ACR has a new staff member, Danette
J. Ross, who is our Family Mediation
Coordinator. An experienced family and
community mediator, Danette was most
recently employed as the Case Manager/Staff
Mediator with Prince George’s
County Family Division - Mediation and
ADR Services at the Courthouse in Upper
Marlboro, MD.
To read more about Danette, please
go to our Web site at:
http://acresolution.org/research.nsf/key/Staff
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[9] Free Resources on Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder and Terrorism
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As a response to the events of September
11, McGraw-Hill is offering one of its
ebooks, to the public free of charge.
To access the newly-released ebook,
The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook:
A Guide to Healing, Recovery, and Growth,
by Glenn R. Schiraldi, Ph.D., click
here: http://www.ebooks.mcgraw-hill.com/
The National Academy Press offers offers
online versions of all its books, and
has collected the titles most relevant
to terrorism and security on a special
web page: http://www.nap.edu/terror/
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[10] Quotes
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"Stubborn opposition to proposals
often have no other basis than the complaining
question 'Why wasn't I consulted?' "
-- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"All there is to thinking is seeing
something noticeable which makes you
see something you weren't noticing which
makes you see something that isn't even
visible." -- Norman Maclean, A
River Runs Through It
"We, the peoples of the United
Nations, determined to save succeeding
generations from the scourge of war,
which twice in our lifetime has brought
untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm
faith in fundamental human rights, in
the dignity and worth of the human person,
in the equal right of men and women
and of nations large and small....And
for these ends to practice tolerance
and live together in peace with one
another as good neighbors...have resolved
to combine our efforts to accomplish
these aims." -- Preamble, Charter
of the United Nations.
"We frail humans are at one time
capable of the greatest good and, at
the same time, capable of the greatest
evil. Change will only come about when
each of us takes up the daily struggle
ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate,
loving, and above all joyful in the
knowledge that, by some miracle of grace,
we can change as those around us can
change too." -- Maíread
Maguire
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