Conflict Learning Audio

This podcast was produced by Barbara Jones, a student in the 2008 session of Roots of Social Conflict (DR7100), a course in the Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution Program at Wayne State University. Barbara took our conflict briefing paper assignment and jazzed it up to create an audio version that of necessity covers a complex case in a short time. The case involves a dispute over renaming a High School in Florida that was named after former KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest. Listen and learn! BW

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Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution at WSU

This is a recording of the 4th annual Stanley “Hank” Marx Lecture Series In Dispute Resolution held at Wayne State University. Our speaker this year is the new Dean of Wayne State’s Law School and a longtime advocate for alternative dispute resolution, Robert M. Ackerman. The talk was entitled “Astride Two Worlds: Lawyers and Other Professionals in Dispute Resolution” and featured a distinguished panel of respondents: Sheldon G. Larky, Esq, Howard Lischeron, Executive Director, Wayne Mediation Center and Janice Tracht, LMSW, ACSW, BCD. The event occurred on Monday, October 20, 2008 and was one of the ways that Wayne State University and it’s Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution program celebrated Conflict Resolution Day.

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MADR Program

Link to information on the Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution at WSU

This episode focuses on the 2008 Summer Doctoral Seminar hosted by Wayne State University’s Department of Communication. The theme was “Communication Activism: Engaged Scholarship” and it featured guest scholar Dr. Larry Frey from the University of Colorado. We get to hear from some of the student participants and listen in on an engaging discussion that took place after students returned from a activists’ tour of Detroit. Interviewed participants include Audrey Wagstaff, Brian Ekdale, Janet Donoghue, Karen Greiner, Nadine Yehya, Sarah McGhee and Teemu Kauppi.

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WSU Communication Department Homepage

Wayne State University's Department of Communication was host and sponsor of the seminar.

Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership

Grace Lee Boggs is mentioned by a number of participants after they met her during their Detroit tour.

Dr. Larry Frey's Profile Page

Larry Frey is a professor at the University of Colorado. This links to his profile page.

In this episode we hear highlights from the ACR Education Section conference Sustaining Conflict Resolution Education: Building Bridges to the Future held March 9-11, 2008 in Fairfax, Virginia on the campus of George Mason University. Speakers include Larry Dieringer, Executive Director, Educators for Social Responsibility and Associate Professor Susan Hirsch from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason. We also hear from Peer Mediation Partners undergraduate interns Rebecca Newman, Roxanne Libby, William Still and Jared Schmidt who describe their work going into middle schools and high schools in their region to support peer mediation across the educational spectrum.

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Link to PMP presentation

Slides from the Peer Mediation Partners workshop

Educators for Social Responsibility

Website of Educators for Social Responsibility

Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution

ICAR at George Mason University

Conflict Resolution Education Connection

New web clearinghouse of CRE information and resources.

In this episode, Bill Warters interviews colleagues affiliated with the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. The group assembled in Syracuse September 27-28, 2007 for a conference and celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the PARC Program. Interviewees discuss their early focus at PARC, what they have done since, and they offer advice for new graduate students entering the field of conflict studies. People interviewed include:

Neil Funk-Unrau
John Lawyer
Patrick Coy
Nora Femenia
Tim Hedeen
John Crist
Brian Polkinghorn
Diane Swords
Heather Pincock
Marie Pace

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PARC Website

The web home for the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts at Syracuse University.