Resources
If you need information that you can not find within our web site or through its links, contact Judy Sprauer and she will do her best to help you.
Here are some resources that may be of help or interest.
- University Resources
- Conflict Resolution Information Resources on the Web
- Restorative Justice Web Sites
- Mediation and Conflict Resolution Blogs
- ADR Writing Contests
University Resources
GRE Preparation
GRE preparation help can be found on campus at Academic Learning Services. The GRE workshops offer comprehensive instruction in the exam's math, verbal, and analytical writing sections. In addition, participants learn effective test-taking and pacing strategies. Workshop materials include a study book and practice GRE exams. Workshop dates are listed at als.uoregon.edu/services/testprep/gre.html.
Academic Learning Services
You can find information on academic support at als.uoregon.edu/index.html
English as a second language
If you are an international student wanting help with your English, you can find it at the American English Institute, aei.uoregon.edu
Graduate Teaching Fellowships (GTF's)
Unfortunately, the Masters program is not yet able to offer any GTF's. If you are interested in a GTF position, check the following links. In addition to the Graduate School GTF positions, other departments will offer GTF positions which may or may not be restricted to students from that department. You'll have to check the site of each department. Try the search function on the University web site as well.
The selection process is quite competitive since the positions are in such high demand. GTF's include a tuition waiver plus a stipend.
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Current Graduate school GTF openings
gradschool.uoregon.edu/?page=gtfOpenings
Graduate School GTF Employment Opportunities
gradschool.uoregon.edu/?page=gtfJobAnnouncements
For a listing of fellowships and awards that are offered annually and are open to US nationals and international students, go to:
gradschool.uoregon.edu/?page=fellowships
The Graduate School application for GTF positions can be found at:
gradschool.uoregon.edu/forms/gs_630.pdf
Information for new GTF's can be found at:
gradschool.uoregon.edu/?page=newGTF
Language requirements for international student GTF's can be found at:
gradschool.uoregon.edu/?page=intlGTFLangRequirement
studentlife.uoregon.edu/programs/crs/
University of Oregon Career Center
The career center is a valuable and often underutilized resource for students. You can learn about what they have to offer at uocareer.uoregon.edu. Paying them a visit is useful too.
Financial aid opportunities for international students
oip.uoregon.edu/iss/faid/
Conflict Resolution Information Resources on the Web
Conflict Resolution Information Source. This is a very rich site with great breadth and depth of information.
www.crinfo.org
Mediate.com is a popular site with many articles on all aspects of the field.
www.mediate.com
Beyond Intractability.org is " A free knowledge base on more constructive approaches to destructive conflict."
www2.beyondintractability.org/
Campus Conflict Resolution Resources. This is very interesting site full of conflict resolution information for university campus communities.
www.campus-adr.org
The Program on Negotiation (PON) at the Harvard Law School is an important center of learning and practice. The PON clearinghouse lists many publications in all sectors of practice. Reviewing the lists is in itself educational.
www.pon.org/catalog/index.php
The Association for Conflict Resolution - This is the international association for the field of conflict resolution. If you are new to the field, you will learn a lot by attending one of the annual conferences.
www.acrnet.org
The Oregon Mediation Association. The OMA also has an annual conference.
www.omediate.org
US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution
www.ecr.gov
The American Bar Association - Alternative Dispute Resolution section. The ABA ADR section has an annual conference.
www.abanet.org/dispute
International Association for Conflict Management
www.iacm-conflict.org
International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution
www.cpradr.org
The Albert Einstein Institution. This site says of itself, "Dedicated to advancing the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world."
www.aeinstein.org/
The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) assists countries pursuing accountability for past mass atrocity or human rights abuse. The Center works in societies emerging from repressive rule or armed conflict, as well as in established democracies where historical injustices or systemic abuse remain unresolved. You will sometimes find internship or job opportunities listed here.
http://www.ictj.org
The International Academy of Mediators. This is an association of mediators providing mediation of major commercial mediations. The site has list of interesting articles written by its members.
www.iamed.org
Mediators Without Borders includes useful Peace Making and other links with an international focus.
www.mediatorswithoutborders.org
The Insight Collaborative is a firm offering mediation, facilitation, training, and consulting services. You might find it informative to browse around their site. They also offer a one-year fellowship program focused on international work that includes a $25,000 expense stipend.
www.insightcollaborative.org
There are a number of firms providing mediation/facilitation services for multi-party, public (and usually environmental, in one way or another) policy disputes and decision-making. You may find their web sites educational in themselves. Among them are:
The Keystone Center - keystone.org
Resolve - www.resolv.org
Concur - www.concurinc.com
CDR Associates - www.mediate.org/index.cfm
The Consensus Building Institute - www.cbuilding.org/
Peace Games is an organization that works in partnership with educators, parents, students and community members to support young people in schools as peacemakers. In April 2001, Peace Games initiated three-year collaborations with six elementary schools in Boston and Los Angeles, involving more than 3,000 students and 200 teachers annually. Each year they gathered and analyzed data from a sample of 600 students in first through sixth grade, and 40 staff members across five Peace Games schools to evaluate how students and teachers improved their peacemaking skills, and to what extent Peace Games helped the school create and sustain a culture of peace.
http://www.peacegames.org
The Peace Education Center, whose mission is to further the development of the field of peace education, particularly in recognition of the unprecedented need to address issues of security, war and peace, human rights and social justice, sustainable development and ecological balance, by providing outreach, resourcing, training and in-service education, can be found at
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/PeaceEd/index.html.
You'll find information of interest at the web site for the Institute for Environmental Negotiation at the University of Virginia, http://www.virginia.edu/ien/index.htm.
You can find a list of their interesting and downloadable publications at http://www.virginia.edu/ien/publications.htm.
Restorative Justice Web Sites
The Victim/Offender Mediation Association. Be sure to click on the "links" link when you're browsing this site.
www.voma.org
Prison Fellowship International. This site has a lot of good information on it. Click on "Webtour" and you'll find an extensive list of web resources, academically affiliated sites, community organizations, government agencies related to the subject, reading and research resources, etc.
www.restorativejustice.org
The University of Minnesota's Restorative Justice Program at the School of Social Work. There are lots of useful links on this site.
rjp.umn.edu
The International Institute for Restorative Justice Practices
www.realjustice.org
Mediation and Conflict Resolution Blogs
Everyone's talking about blogs. As you would expect, there's a lot of stuff out there tied to our field.
The National Institute for Advanced Conflict Resolution says,
"The advent of blogging as a form of internet communication has begun to revolutionize how information is disseminated on the web. The mediation field has not been immune from this development, and there are a growing number of blogs relating to mediation and dispute resolution that are popping up on the internet."
The Institute offers its top five picks as well as a survey of other ADR/mediation blogs at
www.niacr.org/pages/blog/mediation_blog.htm
Other spots:
mediationblog.blogspot.com/
mediatorblahblah.blogspot.com
Interestingly, Geoff Sharp in an article at www.mediate.com/articles/sharp5.cfm, says, "According to The American Lawyer law blogs have moved up the food chain in the last 12 months to be mainstream." and, "The most compelling, cutting-edge, honest legal writing being produced in this country today is happening on the Internet, and the crop improves daily... it's clear that the real bones and guts and sinew of the national conversation is happening online, and not in print." [read more]
You can also look at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society where a symposium in April, 2006 on Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship was hosted."
Dr Tammy Lenski's Mediator Tech is a blog dedicated to the business of mediation and currently engaged in an online experiment writing a book 'Making Mediation Your Day Job', chapter by chapter via the blog.
Dina Beach Lynch's Mediation Mensch where mediators can build thriving practices together.
Perry Itkin's Florida Mediator blog.
The World Directory of ADR Blogs.
There's a site called Bloglines (one of a number of aggregators, as these sites are called) on which you can subscribe to your chosen blogs. It will alert you to new posts on your chosen blogs. There is information on this feature at Getting started with Bloglines at Wisconsin Lawyer.
Google Reader offers a similar service. Google "Google Reader"!
For those of you who are interested in new developments in neuroscience and how they relate to our understanding of behavior in conflict resolution, you might find the blog at
http://www.brainsonpurpose.com interesting.
You'll find interesting and sometimes relevant-to-our-field information at http://www.concurringopinions.com/
Another blog with lots of information can be found at http://mediationchannel.com/
And you'll find links to lots of mediation-related blogs at http://www.mediate.com/blogs
- The James Boskey ADR Writing Competition
- The essay may address any aspect of dispute resolution practice, theory or research that the contestant chooses. Essays are limited to 15-20 typewritten pages, including footnotes or endnotes.
- First Prize: $1000 in each of two divisions, Law Student or Masters/Doctoral Student.
- The first prize winners will also receive an invitation to publish in The Journal of American Arbitration or The World Arbitration and Mediation Report and the essays will be posted online at the Section of Dispute Resolution's website.
- For submission information, procedures, or an entry form, visit the Penn State Dickinson School of Law website.
- You can read past winners here.
- For a listing of law writing contests (some of which will be suitable for ADR subject matter), click here.
- For extensive listings of legal writing contests, click here and here.
- William J. Pierce Writing Contest
- The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws sponsors the William J. Pierce Writing Contest. This is a student writing competition for the best article, note, or comment that addresses a uniform or model act, or an issue arising from a uniform or model act, promulgated by the Conference.
- Students studying dispute resolution might want to write about the Uniform Mediation Act or Revised Uniform Arbitration Act, which are available here.
- This contest is open to students enrolled in any United States law school or students who have graduated from a U.S. law school within the last year.
- The winner will receive $500.
- Application deadline: Dec. 1.
- For more information, contact NCCUSL at 211 E. Ontario Street, Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60611, (312) 915-0195, or email krobinson@nccusl.org. For a copy of the contest announcement, email colemanl@missouri.edu.
