ResourcesIf you need information that you can not find within our web site or through its links, contact Ellen Laing and she will do her best to help you.
Here are some resources that may be of help or interest.
University Resources
GRE Preparation
Academic Learning Services
English as a second language
Graduate Teaching Fellowships (GTF's)
The selection process is quite competitive since the positions are in such high demand. GTF's include a tuition waiver plus a stipend.
Current Graduate school GTF openings
Graduate School GTF Employment Opportunities
For a listing of fellowships and awards that are offered annually and are open to US nationals and international students, go to:
The Graduate School application for GTF positions can be found at:
Information for new GTF's can be found at:
Language requirements for international student GTF's can be found at:
University of Oregon Conflict Resolution Services
University of Oregon Career Center
Financial aid opportunities for international students
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."
Campus Conflict Resolution Resources. This is very interesting site full of conflict resolution information for university campus communities.
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.
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.
The Oregon Mediation Association. The OMA also has an annual conference.
US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution
The American Bar Association - Alternative Dispute Resolution section. The ABA ADR section has an annual conference.
Court ADR Resource Center
International Association for Conflict Management
International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution
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."
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.
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.
Mediators Without Borders includes useful Peace Making and other links with an international focus.
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.
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:
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.
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
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.
The US Institute of Peace Peace Media Clearinghouse
The Advocates for Human Rights Discover Human Rights Institute
Institute for Environmental Negotiation – University of Virginia
The Social Psychology Network
Restorative Justice Web Sites
The Victim/Offender Mediation Association. Be sure to click on the "links" link when you're browsing this site.
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.
The University of Minnesota's Restorative Justice Program at the School of Social Work. There are lots of useful links on this site.
The International Institute for Restorative Justice Practices
Mediation and Conflict Resolution BlogsEveryone'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
Other spots:
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 tracks and catalogs 200+ ADR blogs from 30 countries across the globe. Courtesy of that site, here is a list of blogs that focus on particular areas of ADR:
And also courtesy of The World Directory site, here is a list of blogs from other countries:
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 ADR Writing Contests
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