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>> ACR Update, April 1, 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
April 1, 2004

[1] ACR Conferences Update
[2] ACR Membership Update
[3] ACR Publications Update
[4] ACR Sections Update
[5] ACR Chapters Update
[6] Quotes
[7] Message from Our Sponsor
*Dispute Resolution Foundation: 2nd Caribbean Conference on Dispute
Resolution

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[1] ACR Conferences Update
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REGISTER NOW: NATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION EDUCATION CONFERENCE
"What Works! Innovations in Conflict Resolution Education: Early Childhood
to Higher Education"
May 5-8, 2004
Columbus, Ohio

This conference is sponsored by ACR on behalf of the Education Section, the
Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management, the
Interfaith Center for Peace, and the Ohio Resource Network. For conference
information and registration, go to
http://www.disputeresolution.ohio.gov/NCRE.htm. The ACR Education Section's
Mid-Year Meeting will take place in conjunction with this conference. For
information on the Section's Mid-Year Meeting, see the Education Section's
Web site at http://www.mediate.com/acreducation/.

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REGISTER NOW: ACR'S ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY SECTION 2004 MID-YEAR
CONFERENCE
"Leadership Forum 2004: Challenges and Strategies for Environment and
Public Policy Conflict Resolution"
May 20-22, 2004
Heathman Hotel
Portland, Oregon

ACR's Environment and Public Policy Section will host its annual Mid-Year
Conference in the beautiful city of Portland, Oregon this coming May.
Conference events will be held in downtown Portland at the Heathman Hotel,
which was recently named one of America's Top 100 Hotels by Travel +
Leisure Magazine. ACR has negotiated a discounted hotel rate of $109 for
conference attendees. You must make your hotel reservation by April 30 to
receive this special rate. Conference registration is open; for conference
information and registration, please visit the ACR Web site at:
http://www.acrnet.org/conferences/sections/epp04.htm.

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SAVE THE DATE: ACR'S 2004 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
"Valuing Peace in the 21st Century: Expanding the Art and Practice of
Conflict Resolution"
September 30-October 2, 2004
Sacramento Convention Center
Sacramento, California

This conference will highlight the challenges and opportunities facing the
field of conflict resolution in the 21st century and will present examples
of innovative practice in a wide range of types and venues of conflict.
Sacramento, the host city, has many attractions, including art galleries,
museums, restaurants and exciting nightlife. You may want to build a
vacation around the conference, and take advantage of Sacramento's
proximity to the wineries of the Sierra Nevada foothills and the
Napa/Sonoma Valley, Lake Tahoe and Reno, Nevada. We look forward to seeing
you in Sacramento!

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[2] ACR Membership Update
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ACR ANNOUNCES NEW MEMBER BENEFITS

ACR continues to work on securing new benefits for its members: ACR
recently negotiated a 20 percent discount on BNA (Bureau of National
Affairs) books for all our members and 10 percent discount on Hertz rental
cars. More information about ACR member benefits is available on the ACR
Web site: http://www.acrnet.org/membership/index.htm.

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[3] 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

We accept submissions to the following departments of ACResolution 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 April will go into the Summer issue of the magazine (August
2004).

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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[4] ACR Sections Update
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EDUCATION SECTION

The Education Section will host its mid-year meeting during the conference
"What Works! Innovations in Conflict Resolution Education: Early Childhood
to Higher Education," held in Columbus, Ohio May 5th-8th, 2004 and
sponsored by ACR on behalf of the Education Section, the Ohio Commission on
Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management, the Interfaith Center for
Peace, and the Ohio Resource Network. The Section's mid-year meeting will
begin Thursday, May 6, at 4:00 p.m., continue through dinner, and into the
evening until 8:30 p.m. For more information please visit the Section's Web
site at http://www.mediate.com/acreducation/. To register for the
conference, go to: http://www.disputeresolution.ohio.gov/NCRE.htm.

ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY SECTION MID-YEAR CONFERENCE

The Environment and Public Policy Section is pleased to announce that
registration for its mid-year conference now is available online at
http://www.acrnet.org/conferences/sections/epp04.htm. The conference will
be held May 20-22, 2004 in Portland, Oregon.

FAMILY SECTION

The Family Section has scheduled two more Telephone Talks:

On Monday, May 10, Bernie Mayer will speak on "Beyond Neutrality: How We
Can Make a Bigger Impact on Conflict" at 3:00 PM Eastern Time.

On Wednesday, June 23, Mel Rubin will speak on "Mediation: A Bed of Roses
It 'Aint! The Reality of Mediator Malpractice." This talk is tentatively
scheduled for noon Eastern Time.

To confirm the times and to register for these talks, e-mail or call Family
and Workplace Mediation Coordinator Stephen Kotev at skotev@acrnet.org or
call 202-464-9700, ext. 227.

RESEARCH SECTION

In December 2003, the Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
(CNCR) in the College of Law, Georgia State University made the Conflict
Management Education (CME) Legislation Database available through its Web
site. The CME Legislative Database is a web-based tool providing access to
current and pending school conflict management legislation for school
stakeholders, conflict management practitioners, and policy makers. To
read more about this exciting tool, and to learn more about ACR's Research
Section, go to: http://www.mediate.com/acrresearch.

WORKPLACE SECTION

On March 14, ACR's Workplace Section, ACR's DC, MD and VA Chapters, and
George Mason University's Law School jointly sponsored a colloquium on the
Federal "No Fear" Act. Attended by ninety ADR/EEO people from the DC-metro
region, the event prompted so much interest that many who sought
reservations had to be turned away. The event's focus was of particular
interest to DC-metro region mediators, many of whom handle federal
disputes, and also provided information for anyone interested in how
organizations entice management participation in workplace dispute
resolution. The event was the organization's first tri-chapter-Section
joint event.

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHAPTER CONFERENCE: APRIL 21, 2004

The District of Columbia Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution
Presents:

9th Annual Professional Development Conference
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
"ADR at Work: Skills to Create Empowerment and Opportunity"

For complete details about the conference, including the Conference
Program, workshop descriptions and registration form, refer to:
http://www.acrnet.org/pdfs/dcacr04conf.pdf

Questions? Call the DC-ACR Hotline at (202) 822-1158 and leave a message in
the Conference mailbox.

GREATER NEW YORK CHAPTER (ACR-GNY) CONFERENCE: JUNE 25, 2004

The Greater New York Chapter of ACR will hold its 2004 Annual Spring
Conference on in New York City on Friday, June 25, 2004. The conference
theme is "Spanning the Globe: What Works in Dispute Resolution." To learn
more about this exciting event, please visit the ACR-GNY Web site:
http://www.acrgny.org/.

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[6] Quotes
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We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. -- Japanese
Proverb

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. -- Welsh Proverb

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children. -- Native American Proverb

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological
clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes,
ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope
that we are still in the early morning of our April day. -- Stephen Jay
Gould, "Our Allotted Lifetimes," The Panda's Thumb, 1980

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[7] Message from Our Sponsor: Dispute Resolution Foundation
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2nd CARIBBEAN CONFERENCE ON DISPUTE RESOLUTION
"RIDING THE TIDES OF TROUBLED TIMES: 21ST CENTURY TECHNIQUES FOR REDUCING
THE COST OF CONFLICTS AND DISPUTES"
MAY 12, 13 &14, 2004, KINGSTON, JAMAICA
CONFERENCE FEE: US$150 per/person
DISPUTE RESOLUTION FOUNDATION:
Website: http://www.disputeresolutionfoundation.com
MONA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS:
Website: http://msb.uwimona.edu.jm:1104

Outline of papers and presentations will be welcomed up to April 15, 2004.

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