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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.
Mediate.com is a popular site with many articles on all aspects of the field. For recent articles on mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution, you can go to Resolution Today at http://www.mediate.com/today/
Beyond Intractability.org is " A free knowledge base on more constructive approaches to destructive conflict."
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/ 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. The online Encyclopedia of Peace Education is at http://www.tc.edu/centers/epe/entries.html. Restorative Justice Web Sites
The Victim/Offender Mediation Association. Be sure to click on the "links" link when you're browsing this site.
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.
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 ADR Writing Contests
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