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Editor RecommendationsCRInfo Version IV now includes short lists of recommended resources ("Editor's Picks") on 200 topics from CRInfo's panel of 10 outside editors. The editors include:
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Alberto Barrueco | Alberto Barrueco was born in Madrid, Spain. His educational background includes a Licenciatura in American History at the Complutense University at Madrid, and an MS in Conflict Analysis and Resolution at ICAR, George Mason University. He has spent most of his professional career working in the education field -- in both the classroom and curriculum development -- in Spain, Great Britain, and the United States.
Topics: Student and Youth Conflict |
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Craig Coletta | Craig Coletta is a conflict resolution consultant and trainer specializing in cross-cultural issues. He spent the last five years as the coordinator of the national Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) in which role he served as a point of connection for over 300 community mediation programs in the United States and abroad. Prior to that, he was Dispute Resolution Services Coordinator at the Pittsburgh Mediation Center. He is currently developing national land-dispute resolution programs for the Kingdom of Cambodia.
Topics: Community Dispute Resolution |
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Dawn Gresham | Dawn Gresham is a trainer, facilitator, and resource developer with Building Collaborative Solutions (BCS) in Fairfax, VA. She has an MS in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from ICAR, George Mason University, and a professional background in adult education and mentoring. Her work includes helping people to strengthen their family relationships by understanding differences and using constructive communication and conflict management practices.
Topics: Family |
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Sarah Hammill | Sarah Hammill is a reference librarian at Florida International University Library in Miami, FL. She holds a MLS from the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, and is currently completing coursework for a graduate certificate in Conflict Resolution and Consensus Building at Florida International University. Her areas of interest are online dispute resolution and education, both areas of her current research work.
Topics: Conflict Resolution Education, Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) |
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Beyond Intractability | A "sister website" to CRInfo, Beyond Intractability (www.beyondintractability.org) is a knowledge base that provides access to information on the nature of difficult and intractable conflicts and ways to approach those conflicts so that they become more constructive and less destructive. Initially created by a team of more than 200 distinguished scholars and practitioners from around the world, the knowledge base is built around an online "encyclopedia" with easy-to-understand essays on almost 400 topics. These essays explain the many dynamics which determine the course of conflict along with available options for promoting more constructive approaches.
Topics: Intractable Conflict |
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Sandra Kerka,
Conflict Management Services | Sandra Kerka has more than 25 years of experience in information management, primarily through her work with ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), the national education database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. For the ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education, she has managed the cataloging, indexing, and abstracting of materials for the database; developed search terms for the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors; and researched, edited, written, and designed publications synthesizing information on a variety of topics. Sandra has also developed publications and designed websites for arts and education organizations, including Conflict Management Services.
Topics: Mediation |
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Cheryl Lowry,
Conflict Management Services | Cheryl Lowry, Ph.D., directs the training company called Conflict Management Services in Columbus, Ohio, and has about 10 years of experience in the conflict resolution field, including experience as an arbitrator and as a mediator of divorce, workplace, community, and special education cases. Prior to entering the field, Cheryl worked for 14 years as an educational researcher and developer at Ohio State University and for 2 years as a curriculum developer for Case Western Reserve University's Mandel School of Applied Social Science. She is an adjunct faculty member in Antioch University's master's degree program in conflict resolution.
Topics: Mediation |
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Heather Meyers | Heather Meyers is Interim Director of the Bachelor of Individualized Studies degree at George Mason University. She is a doctoral candidate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and holds a Master's degree from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. She teaches courses in interdisciplinary studies, conflict resolution, and events management at George Mason.
Topics: Student and Youth Conflict, Workplace Conflict |
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Jennifer Murphy | Jennifer Murphy holds a Masters in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from ICAR, George Mason University. Her work focuses on building understanding and teaching effective communication techniques through dialogue and experiential education with youth and young adult groups.
Topics: Student and Youth Conflict, Family |
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Duane Ruth-Heffelbower | Duane Ruth-Heffelbower practiced law before becoming a Mennonite pastor, and later a member of the graduate faculty at Fresno Pacific University, where he is currently Director of Training and Services for the Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. Duane is Webmaster for Victim Offender Mediation Association, an Advanced Practitioner member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, a member of the American Society of Victimology, and Administrator of Victim Offender Reconciliation Program of the Central Valley, Inc., founded in 1982.
Topics: Restorative Justice |
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Jennifer Shack | Jennifer Shack is CAADRS Director of Research. She is involved in a number of research projects and is in charge of CAADRS' database, which contains more than 2000 resources regarding ADR, with a particular focus on court-related issues. In addition to her research activities, Ms. Shack is a mediator focusing on employment discrimination cases.
Topics: Court ADR |
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David Smith,
George Mason University | David J. Smith is a Senior Program Officer at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), where he focuses on secondary and higher education. He is enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. Before joining USIP, he was an associate professor of legal studies at Harford Community College (MD) and an assistant professor of peace studies at Goucher College. He has taught extensively in the peace studies and conflict resolution field. In 2003, he was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar teaching at the University of Tartu in Tartu, Estonia. He has also worked in community mediation and family mediation. He has a J.D. from the University of Baltimore.
Topics: Peace Education |
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Elissa Teeple | Elissa Teeple is a doctoral student at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, in Arlington, Virginia. Her research interests include culture and conflict, cross-cultural psychology, peacebuilding, ritual and reconciliation, and trauma healing. She has a M.S. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, and a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University.
Topics: Peacebuilding |
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Susan Yates | Susan M. Yates is the Executive Director of the Center for Analysis of Alternative Dispute Resolution Systems (CAADRS), a non-profit organization that assists courts in Illinois in making more effective use of alterative dispute resolution. She is co-editor of ADR Handbook for Judges, has written training manuals, and has designed competency-based training and evaluation instruments. She trains lawyers, judges, and the general public to mediate and has been an adjunct instructor at the law schools at DePaul University, Hamline University, Loyola University, and Northwestern University.
Topics: Court ADR |
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| A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame. -- Dhammapada |
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Featured Links
Organizations Making Noteworthy Contributions to Conflict Resolution and Peace:
International Association of Mediators and Arbitrators (IAMA)
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Partner Projects
CRInfo mini-grant recipients, gateway partners, and affiliated projects:
Intractable Conflict Knowledge Base Project
"This knowledge base examines very difficult, destructive, long-lasting conflicts. We explore what makes these conflicts different from other conflicts, and more importantly what can be done to lessen their destructiveness and make them more constructive." |
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Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Human rights leader, and 1980 Nobel Peace Laureate |
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