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>> ACR Update, June 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
June 1, 2004
[1] ACR Strategic Planning Update
[2] ACR Youth Mentor Program
[3] ACR Conferences Update
[4] ACR Membership Directory Update
[5] ACR Publications Update
[6] Sections Update
[7] Chapters Update
[8] Quotes
[9] Message from Our Sponsor: ABA Section
of Dispute Resolution
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[1] ACR Strategic Planning Update
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STRATEGIC PLANNING UPDATE FROM ACR CEO
DAVID HART
Dear ACR members:
As regular readers of ACR Update know,
ACR is in the midst of a participatory
and flexible Strategic Planning process.
An overview of the process is provided
below; for a fuller explanation of this
important effort, please visit the ACR
Web site: http://www.acrnet.org/strategicplanning/.
This January, ACR President Rosemary
Romero appointed a Strategic Planning
Task Force, charged with helping the Board
of Directors plan the process, reaching
out to the leadership and membership for
input, and pulling together working materials
in advance of the Board’s June 2004
strategic planning meeting.
Since January, the Strategic Planning
Task Force has:
·Engaged ACR’s leaders and
members in consideration of the organization’s
Vision / Mission / Values Statements
·Requested that the leadership
of chapters, sections, committees, and
task forces contribute to the next stage
in the process, the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities, and Threats) analysis,
in which they were to describe what they
think are ACR’s internal strengths
and weaknesses, and the external opportunities
and threats that may exist.
·Prepared drafts of key components
of the strategic plan, which will form
the basis for the June 17–18, 2004
Board of Directors meeting, during which
the draft strategic plan will be developed.
We will share the results of the Board
of Directors’ strategic planning
meeting with the leadership and membership.
Please stay tuned for further developments
and requests for input.
Sincerely,
David A. Hart
CEO, Association for Conflict Resolution
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[2] ACR Youth Mentor Program Update
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ACR'S YOUTH MENTOR PROGRAM UPDATE
The ACR Youth Mentor Program, initiated
in 2003, allows young people ages 16-
24 to learn about ACR and the dispute
resolution field from top professionals.
In its first year of existence, the program
made significant progress. Many ACR members
had the opportunity to meet the four up-and-coming
young dispute resolution professionals
who are the current Youth Mentees -- Shawnta
Washington, Tajae Gaynor, Antonio Sanford
and Tracey Pastan -- at ACR's 2003 Annual
Conference in Orlando, Florida. While
there, they presented multiple workshops,
including one on the Youth Mentor Program,
and spent valuable face-to-face time with
their mentors. The Youth Mentors are Dan
De Stephen, Janice Fleischer, Lynne Hurdle-Price,
Marvin Johnson, Homer La Rue, Nina Meierding,
Michael Mills, Rafael Montalvo, and Sharon
Press.
The mentees each have found the Youth
Mentor Program rewarding. Tracey Pastan
served as a recorder for two meetings
of the Joint Committee on Model Standards,
in which ACR participates, and served
on ACR's Membership and Legislative Public
Policy Committees. Antonio Sanford served
on ACR's 2004 Conference Program Committee
with one of his mentors, and was asked
to be a Diversity and Equity Point Person.
He will participate in the Diversity &
Equity Network's training in Maryland
this month. Shawnta Washington participated
as a member of ACR's Greater New York
Chapter's Youth Advisory Committee and
has aspirations to run for its board.
Tajae Gaynor was exposed to a new arena
for him, ombudsmans. He co-presented at
a national conference in Washington D.C.
with one of his mentors and is scheduled
to present a workshop with Antonio Sanford
at The Center For Dispute Resolution's
16th annual conference in Maryland this
month. He is also contemplating running
for the ACR Board.
The Youth Mentor Program is evaluating
its progress and making recommendations
for its future. What cannot be measured
is the impact of the strong, lasting relationships
that have developed through this effort.
This worthwhile program is an important
commitment to our youth. For more information
on the Youth Mentor Program, please send
an e-mail to ACR at acr@ACRnet.org.
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[3] ACR Conferences Update
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ACR'S 2004 ANNUAL CONFERENCE: ADVERTISING
AND EXHIBITING OPPORTUNITIES
"Valuing Peace in the 21st Century:
Expanding the Art and Practice of Conflict
Resolution"
September 30-October 2, 2004
Sacramento Convention Center
Sacramento, California
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market base! Reach over 1,500 conflict
resolution practitioners, professionals
and educators by advertising your services
and products at the ACR Annual Conference.
New opportunities and old favorites are
available:
New Opportunities:
• Presidential pens with your logo
at the ACR Presidential Luncheon and Membership
Meeting
• Lunch boxes with your name and
logo at the World Café Boxed Lunch
• Cocktail napkins with your name
and logo at coffee breaks
More details and opportunities at: www.acrnet.org/conferences/sponsorship/index.htm#opps
Program Advertising: Contract Deadline:
August 12, 2004
Exhibit Booths: Contract Deadline: August
2, 2004; Booth Assignment: August 20,
2004
To advertise in the conference program,
exhibit or sponsor a key conference event
(new opportunity), check out the ACR Web
site www.acrnet.org/conferences/sponsorship/index.htm
or contact Penina Rantz at 202-464-9700,
ext. 218, or by e-mail: Prantz@ACRnet.org.
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2004 ANNUAL CONFERENCE: ONLINE REGISTRATION
OPENS JULY 6, 2004
ACR's 2004 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. Preliminary conference
programs will be mailed to members in
late June, and registration will open
on July 6, and the early bird conference
registration deadline is August 9. We
look forward to seeing you in Sacramento!
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[4] ACR Membership Directory Update: Advertising
Opportunity
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OPPORTUNITY TO ADVERTISE IN THE ACR 2004
MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY!
ACR is now accepting advertisements for
the 2004 Membership Directory. The directory
will be produced in CD-ROM format for
all members. Additionally, a limited number
of print copies will be made. CD versions
include billboard ads* and link to your
Web site.
Prices for print directory:
Inside front cover (color) $ 1,200
Back cover (color) $ 1,000
Inside back cover (color) $ 800
Inside full page in front and back (color)
$ 500
Business card size (black and white) $
150
To take advantage of this opportunity,
please contact Penina Rantz at 202-464-9700,
ext. 218 or via e-mail: prantz@ACRnet.org
no later than June 30, 2004.
* CD Billboard ads (870 pixels wide x
155 pixels high). Please submit as a .jpg
with 72 dpi in rgb mode.
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[5] 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.
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[6] ACR Sections Update
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COMMERCIAL SECTION HOSTS TELESEMINARS
The Commercial Section has planned a
series of Teleseminars for its members
on the following topics: “Collaborative
Negotiation for Long-Term Customer Relations”;
“Creating Markets for ADR in Corporate
America”; “Anatomy of a Commercial
Mediation”; and “Rostering
and Managing your Usage on Government
ADR Lists.”
For more information about these presentations,
please contact Will Miller, Co-Chair of
Commercial Section, at adrwill@comcast.net
or 804-739-5569. You must be a member
of the Commercial Section to participate.
To join the Section, contact Shelley Groves
at 202-464-9700, ext. 245, or sgroves@ACRnet.org.
ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY SECTION
MIDYEAR CONFERENCE REPORT
The Environment and Public Policy (EPP)
Section held its annual midyear conference
at the historic Heathman Hotel in downtown
Portland, May 20-22, 2004. An overflow
crowd enjoyed the “Dinner and Night
Networking” and four-hour tour of
the beautiful Columbia River Gorge. The
conference, “2004 Leadership Forum:
Challenges and Strategies for Environmental
and Public Policy Conflict Resolvers”
drew more than 140 attendees and featured
a keynote address by former Oregon Governor
John A. Kitzhaber. Attendees could take
advantage of an orientation to environmental
and public policy conflict resolution
and workshops on such varied topics as
diagnostic consultations, conflict assessments,
and situation assessments; collaborative
resource monitoring; experiences and insights
from Native American practitioners; and
many more. A conference highlight was
a presentation of the EPP Section’s
Diversity Mentoring Project. For a full
list of program offerings, or to get more
information about the conference and the
Diversity Mentoring Project, please visit
the EPP Section Web page at http://www.mediate.com/acrepp
or contact the Co-Chairs, Tom Fee (tomfeenj@aol.com)
and Mary Skelton Roberts (mskelton@cbuilding.org).
FAMILY SECTION ANNOUNCES UPCOMING TELEPHONE
TALK
The Family Section’s May Telephone
Talk featured Bernie Mayer, speaking on
“Beyond Neutrality: How Can We Make
a Bigger Impact on Conflict.” The
talk, loosely based on Bernie’s
new book, took place on May 10, 2004 at
3:00 PM Eastern.
June’s Telephone Talk will feature
Mel Rubin discussing “Mediation:
A Bed of Roses It Ain’t.”
Mel will be talking about issues of malpractice
on June 23rd at noon Eastern.
These calls are offered as member benefits
to Family Section members. You may call
in from anywhere, and the cost is only
your long-distance charge for a 55-minute
telephone call. To register for either
of these talks e-mail your contact information
to Stephen Kotev, Family and Workplace
Mediation Coordinator, at skotev@ACRnet.org.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT MANAGEMENT (OCM)
SECTION: STRATEGIC PLANNING MEETING REPORT
In early 2004, the leadership committee
of the OCM Section met at ACR's office
in Washington, D.C. for strategic planning.
Several activities which will take place
as a result of that meeting, including
a Web-based survey of Section members
to learn more about how the OCM Section
can better serve and involve its members;
final development and roll-out of the
Mutual Learning Network (very cool, interactive,
online resource for members of the OCM
Section); collaboration with the Workplace
Section and other Sections; and clarification
of OCM Section organization and leadership
structure. If you are interested in becoming
a member of the OCM Section, getting more
active in the OCM Section, or learning
more about the OCM Section generally,
please visit http://www.mediate.com/acrocm.
To read more about the OCM Section's strategic
planning meeting, please visit the Section
Notes page at http://www.mediate.com/acrocm.
ONLINE DISPUTE RESOLUTION SECTION: CALL
FOR RESEARCH PAPERS
The Online Dispute Resolution Section
has announced a call for research papers
that evaluate and expand the range of
knowledge in Online Dispute Resolution.
The call is open to any ACR member, and
an award of $600 will be presented for
the best paper. Deadline for submissions
is July 1, 2004. For more information,
please contact Susan Raines, Co-Chair
of the Research Section, at sraines@kennesaw.edu,
or Rebecca Mullins, at 713-435-5751.
RESEARCH SECTION UPDATE
The Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict
Resolution, in cooperation with the Intellectual
Leadership and Next Generation Research
Committee, is conducting an information-gathering
survey of the Research Section membership.
The survey is designed to collect demographics
to be used in the online researcher directory
that will soon become part of the Research
Section's Web site. A second part of the
survey, which will be reported only anonymously,
will highlight the relationships that
researchers and practitioners in our highly
diverse discipline maintain with the field's
professional and scholarly publication
outlets. We can thank Greg Jones for this
laudable effort. For more information,
please visit the Section’s Web page
at http://www.mediate.com/acrresearch.
In April 2003, the Section co-sponsored
(with Penn State Dickinson School of Law
and the Broad Field Project) an interdisciplinary
symposium titled "Dispute Resolution
and Capitulation to the Routine: Is There
a Way Out?" The symposium, which
was one of a series, was published in
Vol. 108, No. 1 of the Penn State Law
Review. For copies of the symposium issue,
please contact Bob Ackerman at bxa9@psu.edu.
The design, planning and execution of
this series of conferences are described
in a the Research Section's first publication,
Engineering Broad-based Discussions: Engaging
Multidisciplinary Groups to Create New
ideas in Conflict Resolution, a monograph
edited by Chris Honeyman and available
in PDF format at http://www.convenor.com/madison/ACRRS1.htm.
SPIRITUALITY SECTION AND ADR-NC TO HOST
FREE PROGRAM
The Spirituality Section of ACR and ADR-NC
(the Northern California Chapter of ACR)
will present a special, FREE program on
“Spirituality and Mediation,”
on Friday, June 18, 2004, 9:00 a.m. –
4:00 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Express,
160 Shoreline Highway, Mill Valley, CA.
The morning session will offer attendees
an opportunity to network and to trade
ideas on the evolving mission of the Section
and on current issues and events. The
afternoon session, “Mediating with
Mindfulness, Heart and Spirit,”
is an interactive program that will explore
the spiritual dimension of mediation,
and mediation’s potential as a spiritual
practice.
For more information on this program,
contact Marilyn Shannon at Marilyn@powerofdialogue.com.
To register, send an e-mail to adr@adrnc.org
with the subject line “Spirituality
in Mediation” and provide your full
name, phone number and whether you are
registering for the morning, afternoon,
or both sessions. For directions, go to:
http://www.marinholidayinnexpress.com/Marin/hiemvdirs.html.
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[7] ACR Chapters Update
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ACR-DALLAS HOSTED SUCCESSFUL WORKPLACE
AND EMPLOYMENT DISPUTE RESOLUTION SEMINAR
ACR-Dallas invited members and guests
to take an inside look at Workplace and
Employment Dispute Resolution at its May
25 meeting, featuring guest speaker will
be David C. Lonergan, Esq. Mr. Lonergan
is a partner at the international law
firm of Hunton & Williams. He represents
employers in federal and state court proceedings
and counsels his clients on day-to-day
labor and employment matters. He has appeared
before the U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th
Circuit, 10th Circuit and U.S. District
Courts. He received his J.D. from Southern
Methodist University in 1975 and is currently
an Adjunct Professor at SMU in the Dispute
Resolution Program.
NEW ENGLAND-ACR SUMMER INSTITUTE: JUNE
11, 2004
The New England Chapter of ACR (NEACR)
hosts its Summer Institute, "Humor
in Mediation: A Creative Tool or an Indulgence?,"
on Friday, June 11, 2004. Presented by
Ashok Panikkar, the institute begins with
registration and networking at 1 p.m.,
followed by the seminar from 1:30 p.m.
- 4:30 p.m. The event will be held at
Wellesley College (Pendeleton East 239),Wellesley,
MA. Please call 617-536-3227 or e-mail
neacr@neacr.org for more information.
Program Description
In times of conflict and trouble, one
of the first qualities that we lose is
our sense of humor. This workshop will
examine the wisdom of bringing back a
sense of humor into an otherwise difficult
(and perhaps not even remotely funny)
situation. Can humor be a useful tool
or is it a risky indulgence? Can the mediator
inject humor into her remarks, and if
so what kind of humor would be appropriate
and useful? How does one facilitate (and
moderate) a conversation where the parties
are subtly encouraged to bring a lightness
and a sense of humor into their deliberations
so that everybody can feel safe and comfortable?
Can laughing together help build community
and a sense of togetherness?
Presenter
Ashok Panikkar is a mediator, facilitator
and coach who works as Director of Training
at Mediation For Results, a conflict resolution
program in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He
has also been a consultant with the Anti-Defamation
League's diversity and anti-bias training
program, A World of Difference Institute,
since 1997.
ACR-GREATER NEW YORK CHAPTER ANNUAL CONFERENCE:
JUNE 25, 2004
ACR-GNY Annual Conference 2004, Friday
June 25, 2004, 8:00 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.,
Columbia Law School, 435 West 116th Street,
New York, New York, 10027. For a conference
schedule and workshop descriptions, or
to register online, visit http://www.acrgny.org/conference.htm
GET INVOLVED IN ACR CHAPTERS!
ACR Chapters enable members in common
geographical regions to meet face-to-face
and attend programs and activities that
support their professional development.
Within the Chapters, conflict resolution
professionals share ideas and best practices
and make networking connections throughout
their area, both within and outside of
the profession. A list of ACR Chapters
is available on the Web site: http://www.acrnet.org/chapters/index.htm.
Don't see a Chapter listed in your area?
You can form a new ACR Chapter. Call ACR
at 202-464-9700, ext. 211 for more information.
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[8] Quotes
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes
to live, it is asking others to live as
one wishes to live. -- Oscar Wilde, The
Soul of Man Under Socialism
You can out-distance that which is running
after you, but not what is running inside
you. -- Rwandan Proverb
We will have to repent in this generation
not merely for the vitriolic words and
actions of the bad people, but for the
appalling silence of the good people.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
-- William Shakespeare
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[9] Message from Our Sponsor: ABA Section
of Dispute Resolution
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ABA DR Section Staff Director
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Resolution. The Section strives to provide
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the section leadership and over 30 committees
on all section activities. This includes
a $1 million budget, a five-person staff,
legal educational meetings, a publications
program, ABA policies, corporate and law
firm donations to support Section programs,
raising outside funds to support Section
programs, and technology services. The
Director oversees the fund development
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of the Resource Center. http://www.abanet.org/hr/home.html
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