Conflict Learning Audio

Nathan Bedford Forrest School Re-naming Conflict (a Briefing)

WSU Student — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:10:00 -0500

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

Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution at WSU ::

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Robert Ackerman Speaks on Astride Two Worlds - Lawyers and Other Professionals in Dispute Resolution

Bill Warters — Sat, 1 Nov 2008 22:34:00 -0400

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.

More Information on the Lecture Series ::
MADR Program :: Link to information on the Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution at WSU

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Finding Hidden Gems Online

Bill Warters — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:05:00 -0500

This podcast is from the Emerging Technology for Scholars series Bill Warters hosts for the Office of Teaching and Learning at Wayne State University. We explore tips for searching the so-called invisible web and how to take advantage of open access repositories and learning objects collections. The slides from the session, quite helpful to have while listening, are available as a pdf at http://www.campus-adr.net/images/OTLSession4_slides.pdf

Slides from this Session :: These slides from the session provide links to many of the sources I'm reviewing during the podcast.
Companion Website :: This is the companion website (a Moodle course) for the series, open to guests.
Learning Objects Collections Listing :: This is a nicely organized and annotated list of Learning Objects collections that we review in the podcast.

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Automated Info Gathering Tools for Scholars

Bill Warters — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:03:00 -0500

This is an enhanced podcast (ie you’ll want to listen to it in itunes and watch the slides and hotlinks that are included) from a session on automated information gathering tools of interest to academics. Topics included RSS for syndication, journal and news alert services, tag watchlists, and web scraping tools. The session, hosted by Wayne State University’s Office for Teaching and Learning, features Bill Warters.

Companion Site for this series :: Course site (open to guests) for the Emerging Tech series.

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Quick Update from Bill

Bill Warters — Thu, 9 Feb 2006 23:41:00 -0500

Just a quick message to let people know I’m still here and to let you know I did some site maintenance work that may have caused feeds to update in an unusual fashion if your “podcatcher” reads the old files as new after the rebuild of our site. Also of interest is the finally released online audio recording tools over at Odeo.com. Pretty slick.

Odeo site :: An online podcast site with tools for recording and sharing audio using your computer and a flash-based recorder or by calling in by phone.

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Rwanda Ten Years Later - Student Conflict Briefing

WSU Student — Thu, 8 Dec 2005 22:11:00 -0500

This podcast is a conflict theory brief created for our Roots of Social Conflict class at Wayne State University, Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution Program. We will be examining several social conflict theories and their applications to the Rwanda Genocide Case.

For our group conflict brief we discuss various conflict theorists like Dahrendorf, Homans, Homer-Dixon, Pruitt & Rubin, Kriesberg and Dollard. Our Rwanda Project will give you a better insight into how conflict is formed, escalated, and carried-out by individuals, groups, organization’s and states. We demonstrate how the theorist’s conflict theories can be applied to the past and present conflict. Last, we recommend sound conflict resolution strategies that we have learned in our case study of Rwanda Ten Years Later.

Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda :: Human Rights Watch information on Rwanda

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The Bridge Over Troubled Water - Student Conflict Briefing

WSU Student — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:58:00 -0500

Welcome to our first student podcast! This podcast is a conflict theory brief for our Roots of Social Conflict class at Wayne State University. During our semester, we have examined social conflict theories and their applications to various cases. For this particular brief, we have chosen the Strait of Messina Bridge Project. This proposed project would connect Italy’s mainland and Sicily over the Strait of Messina with the world’s largest suspension bridge. For more information, please listen! Ciao!

Il sito ufficiale della Societa Stretto di Messina S.p.A. :: The official web site of the Stretto di Messina S.p.A
FRONTLINE/World -- A Bridge Too Far? :: FRONTLINE/World Fellow Mary Spicuzza traveled to Sicily to explore the storm building over the plans for a bridge across the Strait of Messina.
Washington Post Interview on Project :: Detailed information regarding the Strait of Messina Bridge project and Italian/Sicilian cultures.
Impreglio S.p.A. :: Company awarded Strait of Messina Bridge project.
Impreglio Company Info :: Company information site.
Current information regarding the Strait of Messina Bridge project. :: News on the project

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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.

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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.

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ADR Blogs, CRS on Resolving Racial Conflicts

Bill Warters — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 21:27:00 -0400

This podcast reviews some of the emerging crop of conflict resolution blogs and honors the 40th anniversary of the Watts riots with information on the work of the Community Relations Service and an interview excerpt from Silke Hansen, a CRS mediator since 1972.

ODR Info Blog :: A blog exploring online dispute resolution, which feeds news to the www.odr.info main site.
Florida Mediator (blog) :: Perry Itkin's blog for court-certified mediators in Florida and beyond.
Online Guide to Mediation (blog) :: Diane Levin's blog
Mediation Mensch (blog) :: Dina Beach Lynch's blog
National Arbitration Forum Blog :: Blog featuring news for arbitrators
Conflict Management and Mediation (blog) :: Tom Lutz's blog for the Mediation Training Institute International
Resolving Racial Conflict book :: Link to Bertram Levine's book on the history of the CRS.
Civil Rights Mediation Oral History Project :: Includes interviews with 19 Community Relations Service mediators.
Racial Conflict Simulation :: A civil rights mediation simulation involving a high school halloween party gone bad.

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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.

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