Conflict Learning Audio: GuestInterview

Engaged Scholarship Seminar

Bill Warters — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:03:00 -0400

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.

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.

File Download (43:06 min / 20 MB)

Sustaining Conflict Resolution Education Conference Highlights featuring Peer Mediation Partners

Bill Warters — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:23:00 -0400

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.

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.

File Download (21:48 min / 5 MB)

PARC Alumni on 20 Years of Conflict Theory, Research and Action

Bill Warters — Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:33:00 -0400

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

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

File Download (43:46 min / 10 MB)

CNCR Summer Institute Participants

Bill Warters — Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:33:00 -0400

In this episode I interview participants attending the Summer Institute on Conflict Management in Higher Education sponsored by the Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at Georgia State University. Included is a description of the innovative Facilitated Discussion model being used to handle Academic Dishonesty disputes at the University of Georgia. The interviewees included:
Lin Inlow, Georgia State University
John Kraft, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Rebecca Murphy, Valdosta State University
Jim Wohl, Auburn University
Rachel Schipper, Georgia College and State University
David Bleiman, University and College Union, Edinburgh UK
Heather Blades, Missouri State University
Peter Shedd, University of Georgia

File Download (40:52 min / 9 MB)

Men Working with Men to End Violence Against Women

Bill Warters — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:52:00 -0500

This podcast was done at the recent Roots to Wings Battering Intervention conference held in Dearborn Michigan in early November. I interview John Beams and Bob Paskoff about their early days working with men to end violence against women. Unfortunately, I lost the second half of John Beams story due to a mic problem, so his comments are just a taste of the good ideas he shared.

From Roots to Wings Conference Information :: The website for the international conference held in Dearborn Michigan exploring the future of Batterer Intervention work.
Center for Nonviolence - Fort Wayne :: This is the program John Beams helped start back in 1981 and where he still works.

File Download (24:54 min / 4.3 MB)

Fun File - Mock Interview with President Bush

Bill Warters — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:46:00 -0400

This one-minute audio file of a mock interview of President Bush was made using a new web-based service called Podomatic.com. Using a nifty Flash and an AJAX-type interface, you can create audio files by mixing together various clips. To encourage people to test the service, you can make an interview of yourself talking with Bush and then email to friends and colleagues. The built-in mic on the machine I made it on wasn’t great, but for an experiment it should be okay…

Podomatic Online Audio tools :: A new web-based service (still in beta testing) for making audio mash-ups.

File Download (0:59 min / 0.2 MB)

Quaker Elise Boulding on Peacemaking

Bill Warters — Fri, 5 Aug 2005 21:21:00 -0400

Our featured interview this week is Elise Boulding, Quaker peacemaker, talking about her long career in the conflict resolution field. The interview was conducted by Julian Portilla in 2003 as part of the BeyondIntractability.org project. Note the large file size for people with limited bandwidth. Transcripts of the interview, and excerpts are available at http://www2.beyondintractability.org/audio/boulding-e.jsp. The wealth of content at BeyondIntractability.org is quite impressive, so you might want to browse around some there when you visit it.

BeyondIntractability.org :: Check out Beyond Intractability, the source for this interview.

File Download (65:49 min / 11.3 MB)

Interview with Paul Wahrhaftig

Bill Warters — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:48:00 -0400

Here is my interview with Paul Wahrhafig, the Editor and Publisher of Conflict Resolution Notes for over 20 years. Paul has a new book on the history of the community mediation movement entitled Community Dispute Resolution, Empowerment, and Social Justice that he tells us about, as well as some of what he’s learned about sharing conflict resolution information in as broad a fashion as possible.

Wahrhaftig book link :: The place to go to get Paul's new book.

File Download (33:16 min / 11.4 MB)

Interview with CRInfo - Guy Burgess

Bill Warters — Sat, 2 Apr 2005 15:34:00 -0500

A 25 minute interview done using Skype with Guy Burgess, co-director of CRInfo.org and BeyondIntractability.org, national conflict resolution information websites.

Conflict Resolution Information Source website :: The starting point for lots of conflict resolution info organized under a Hewlett Foundation grant.
Beyond Intractability Project website :: An organized directory of materials on handling intractable conflict.

File Download (25:27 min / 8.8 MB)