 Upcoming
Events
Please tell us about trainings, conferences and seminars
that you know are coming soon. We want this schedule to grow!
Contact CRP at mariarp@udel.edu.
The following is a schedule of upcoming trainings, conferences
and seminars in conflict resolution:
June
12th Annual Conflict Resolution Workshop: A Training Workshop on Conflict Resolution, Negotiation, and Mediation Skill Building, organized by Sacramento State Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution will be held June 18–22, 2007, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The training focuses on negotiation and mediation techniques and process, conflict theories and practices, conflict assessment, conflict sources and types, consensus building, ethics is mediation, alternative dispute resolution system design, cross-cultural communication techniques, and building dispute resolution practice. Registration fee of $525 includes course manual and materials and two lunches. (There is a 10% discount for a group of five or more.) Certificate issued to those completing the 40-hour workshop. MCLE and CEU’s are available upon request. For more information, contact Ernest E. Uwazie, CAPCR Director and Professor at 916-278-6282 or visit www.csus.edu/org/capcr/events/newevents/ConflictResolution-2007.htm.
Twentieth Anniversary Celebration: Managing Conflict and Removing Barriers to Collaborative Decision Making, organized by The Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution in Greenbelt, Maryland, will be held June 21–22. The 2007 conference is designed to provide public and private sector professionals with the latest information on alternative dispute resolution skills, concepts, and strategies. It features a diversified faculty of business, government, and academic experts and affords attendees the opportunity to participate in smaller sessions. A 20th anniversary dinner will be held on June 21 after the first day of conference activities. For more information, contact Linda Sternberg, Chief Administrative Officer at 301-313-0800, email info@natlctr4adr.org or ljsternberg@earthlink.net, or visit www.natlctr4adr.org/about.html.
July
Summer Learning Forum 2007, organized by Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will be held July 9–20 (Week I: July 9–13; Week II: July 16–20). This summer forum will aid in deepening the mastery of professionals and raise awareness in the broader culture. The Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative integrates ethical, philosophical, and spiritual traditions into the negotiation and conflict fields. It will also explore contemplative practice and the inner life while building skills in negotiation and conflict mediation. For more information, contact Cristin Martineau at 617-485-7711, email cmartin@law.harvard.edu, or visit www.pon.harvard.edu/hnii.
International Women’s Peace Conference, sponsored by Peacemakers Incorporated, will be held July 10–15, 2007. This conference will allow participants to select three workshops from a list of topics associated with women’s peace. Such topics are diplomacy, discrimination, economics, education, environment, exploitation, globalization, health, law, media, migration, poverty, power, violence, and war. The training will be held at Adam Marks Conference Center in Dallas, Texas. Registration fee of $250 Adult, $200 Senior 65+, and student $150 includes all conference activities and events (excluding meals) and a complimentary one-year membership to Peacemakers Incorporated. Please make room reservations at the Adams Mark Hotel online at www.adamsmark.com/dallas or by phone 001-800-444-2326. The special conference rate is $99/night plus tax. For more information on registration or to download a printable mail-in registration form, go to www.womenspeaceconference.org/information.htm.
August
The 16th Annual Dispute Resolution Center Conference for Mediators and Arbitrators, organized by the Florida State Courts, will be held August 23–25, 2007, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Friday, and 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Saturday. The goal of the conference is to provide educational opportunities that will be of interest and benefit to professionals involved in the field of conflict resolution. The conference registration brochure will be mailed to all certified mediators in June 2007. If you are not a certified mediator, call 850-921-2910 after May 2007 to request a copy of the brochure. For more information, visit www.flcourts.org/gen_public/adr/index.shtml.
September
Basic Mediation Training, this four-day experiential workshop, presented by the Institute for Public Administration’s Conflict Resolution Program (CRP) at the University of Delaware will be held September 24–25 and October 1–2, 2007, at the historic Buena Vista Conference Center in New Castle, Delaware, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The registration fee is $625 on or before July 31 and $725 after August 1. The deadline to register is August 13. Contact Fran Fletcher and Kathy Wian at 302-831-8158 or visit www.ipa.udel.edu/crp/training.html.
October
7th Annual ACR Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Look forward to more information in the future. acrnet.org/conferences/ac07/index.htm.
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