ACR
Update,
September 1 , 2005
Published by the Association
for Conflict Resolution,
a merged organization of AFM, CREnet and SPIDR
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OVERVIEW
OF ARTICLES
September 1, 2005
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Labor Day Extension:
Second-Chance registration discount available
NOW until September 8th !
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ACR's Board of Directors Adopts Revised Model
Standards of Conduct for Mediators
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Cast Your Vote in the ACR 2005 Board Election:
Voting Open Until September 22, 2005.
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ACResolution Magazine: Deadline for
submitting ACR News items; Call for Article
Proposals for Winter and Spring 2006 Issues;
Summer 2005 Correction Notice
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Call for Nominations and Applications for
Editorship of
Conflict Resolution Quarterly
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Section Teleconference Series: Crisis
Intervention Section
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Quotations
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Message from our Sponsors:
Mediate.com
and
PuddleDancer
Press
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1. Labor Day Extension: Second-Chance
registration discount available NOW until September
8th !
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Labor Day Extension !
The Second Chance discount of $45 off registration
fees for ACR's Annual Conference has been extended
until Thursday, September 8! Online registration
received by 5:30p.m ET or those postmarked
on/before September 8 pay the reduced-price fee of
$445 for members, $525 for non-members.
Book Your Hotel
Accommodations by September 6 to receive a
special rate offered by the Hilton Minneapolis:
$125/night for a single or a double room. Hotels in
Minneapolis are expected to be at capacity the week
of ACR’s Annual Conference, so if you have not made
your room reservation, act now! For more details,
please go to:
http://ACRnet.org/conferences/ac05/ac05-travelandlodging.htm
Annual Conference Highlights Include
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More than 150 workshops, including a Master’s
track for seasoned practitioners, a provocative
series on Righting Unrightable Wrongs, and
sessions highlighting important public policy and
quality assurance issues facing the field;
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Keynote address by
Frances Moore Lappé.
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Friday Fast Track
Day,
a full day for K-12
educators and students on Friday, September 30
(For more information contact Bill Curtis at
billc12@aol.com.);
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Higher Education
Luncheon
on Thursday, September 29, sponsored by
ACR’s Research and Education Sections. (To
attend, mail your $10 check by September 9 to
Higher Education Lunch, c/o National Peace
Foundation, 666 11th Street, NW,
Washington DC 20001.);
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Networking opportunities throughout the
conference; and
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Enjoy beautiful Minneapolis at the very best time
of the year!
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2. ACR's Board of Directors Adopts Revised Model
Standards of Conduct for Mediators
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On August 22, the ACR Board of
Directors unanimously adopted the 2005 revisions to
the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators. ACR
extends its thanks to Sharon Press and Terry Wheeler
for their hard work as ACR’s representatives on the
Joint Committee on Model Standards of Conduct for
Mediators. The Joint Committee included
representatives from the American Arbitration
Association and the American Bar Association’s
Section of Dispute Resolution. To read ACR’s press
release on the Model Standards,
click here.
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3.
Cast Your Vote
in the ACR 2005 Board Election: Voting Open
Until September 22, 2005
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Voting in the 2005 Board
election opened on August 23, 2005 and will remain
open until September 22, 2005 at 5:30 p.m. ET. ACR
members eligible to vote (member categories: Member,
Practitioner / Educator / Researcher, Advanced
Practitioner, Student, Retiree) may do so by
logging in to the
Online Member Center on the ACR website. Voting
members who wish to request a paper ballot may do so
by contacting the ACR office (tel.: 202-464-9700,
ext. 228; email:
ballot@ACRnet.org ). |
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4.
ACResolution
Magazine:
Deadline for submitting ACR News items; Call for
Article Proposals for Winter and Spring 2006 Issues; Summer
2005 Correction Notice
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ACResolution Summer 2005 issue:
"Families in Transition"
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ACR’s winter
2006 issue of ACResolution magazine will
focus on the topic of Community ADR. The
editors seek proposals from people who would like to
write articles on any aspect of this topic. They
seek diversity in authors and subject matter;
authors do not have to be ACR members.
If interested,
please include:
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half-page
description of your proposed article,
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title/headline for
your article,
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your name and
contact information,
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one to three lines
of biographical information, including any
affiliation with ACR, and
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whether you would
like to write a major (3,000 words) or minor
feature (1,500 words).
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Send your proposals via email
to ACResolution Managing Editor Alison
Durland at publications@ACRnet.org as
soon as possible, but no later than
September 10, 2005.
An editorial
advisory committee will review the proposals and
choose 2–3 major features and 2–3 minor features.
All authors will be notified by end of September.
If selected, completed articles will be due to
Alison by November 1, 2005.
For more information
about ACR publications and guidelines, please visit
http://www.ACRnet.org/publications/acresolution.htm.
Call for Article
Proposals: Spring 2006 Issue
Spring, 2006 ACResolution
theme will be “Marketing your Business.” Proposals
are due December 10, 2005. For details, please email
marketing@ACRnet.org .
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Correction Notice:
Summer 2005 Issue
ACResolution Summer
2005 correction notice: a photo on page 38 of a
Jewish divorce document, or get, was printed
upside-down. ACR Publications Manger regrets the
error and any inconvenience it may have caused. |
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5.
Call for Nominations and Applications for Editorship
of
Conflict Resolution Quarterly |
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The Association for Conflict
Resolution (ACR) and Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint,
invite nominations and applications for the
editorship of Conflict Resolution Quarterly
(CRQ), the official journal of the Association
for Conflict Resolution. The journal
publishes quality scholarship on relationships
between theory, research and practice of third
parties in the conflict management and dispute
resolution field to promote more effective
professional applications. |
Responsibilities and duties include
selecting members of the
editorial board in consultation with ACR and
Jossey-Bass, ultimate responsibility for
soliciting manuscripts, accepting and rejecting
manuscripts on the basis of their quality and
suitability for CRQ, guiding manuscripts
through the review process, overseeing revisions and
planning issues. The editor will receive a stipend
from ACR to cover costs of postage, telephone,
photocopying and other direct expenses. All
production and distribution costs are the
responsibility of the publisher.
Nominees and applicants should
be recognized scholars and/or practitioners in the
conflict resolution field. In addition to possessing
excellent managerial and organizational skills,
nominees and applicants should be able to adhere to
strict publishing schedules and work effectively
with others at a distance.
Nominations and applications
will be accepted until October 30, 2005. Applicants
must be available for telephone interviews between
January and July, 2006. Pending outcomes of initial
telephone interviews, applicants will be required to
attend the 2006 ACR Annual Conference in
Philadelphia, PA, October 25-28, 2006 for in-person
interviews. An editor will be chosen shortly after
the Philadelphia Annual Conference and the editorial
transition will begin shortly thereafter.
Please email nomination or
cover letter with curriculum vitae to
famiano@josseybass.com and
publications@ACRnet.org with “CRQ Editor
Application” in the subject line.
Questions may be directed to
David Famiano via email at
dfamiano@josseybass.com .
Applicants may be required to
supply other supporting materials upon request. |
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6.
Section Teleconference Series: Crisis
Intervention Section, September14, 1p.m. ET |
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The Crisis Intervention Section
invites you to attend the second in its
“How Do They Do That?” Teleseminar Series,
featuring experts from a variety of fields sharing
their top crisis management techniques and anecdotes
from their own experience.
The Teleseminar will take place
on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 at 1 p.m.
Eastern time. Please join us for: “The Role of
Mental Health Professionals in Crisis and Hostage
Teams: How Mental Health Professionals Effectively
Assist in the Training of Law Enforcement Crisis and
Hostage Negotiation Teams.”
Over the past decade, the role
of mental health professionals has become more
openly accepted and viewed as helpful in the
training of law enforcement crisis intervention and
hostage negotiation teams. Tina Jaeckle, a licensed
clinical social worker with more than 15 years of
experience in crisis intervention, will present a
talk on how you can approach law enforcement to
offer and provide training opportunities.
Tina will offer suggestions
from her own training experiences with local law
enforcement, and will host a question-and-answer
session at the end of her talk on effective and
appropriate mental health approaches and specific
training ideas.
For information on how to
register for this call, please visit:
http://www.mediate.com/acrcrisisnegotiation/.
 Interested
in participating in a teleconference?
Send an email to Sections Manager
Anne-Marie Burton (sections@ACRnet.org)
to receive dial-in instructions.
Please note: most Section
teleconferences are a Section member
benefit. To join a Section, log in to
ACR’s Online Member Center, click
on “My Account History,” then “Add
Sections,” and select the Sections you
want to add. |
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7.
Quotations |
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“Independence”... [is]
middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent
on one another, every soul of us on earth. --
G.B. Shaw, Pygmalion, 1912 |
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To put the world right in
order, we must first put the nation in order;
to put the nation in order, we must first put
the family in order; to put the family in
order, we must first cultivate our personal
life; we must first set our hearts right. --
Confucius
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It is not for him to
pride himself who loveth his own country, but
rather for him who loveth the whole world.
The earth is but one country and mankind its
citizens. – Baha’u’llah
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Sticks in a bundle are
unbreakable. -- Kenyan Proverb
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(a merged organization of AFM, CREnet and
SPIDR)
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