Conflict Research Consortium

Conflict Resolution in the United States

Consulting & Conciliation Service (CCS): Consulting & Conciliation Service (CCS), a not-for-profit consultancy, serves communities through intervention and guidance. CCS dedicates a whole-system approach to all situations. From family mediation to community dialogue facilitation, CCS offers the arts and sciences of conciliation: the process of bringing people together.
Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation (SCCN): The Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation is Stanford University's interdisciplinary center for the study of conflict and its resolution. Its primary focus is on theory-building, especially in the identification and analysis of the barriers -- strategic, psychological and institutional -- to conflict resolution, as well as bridges to overcome those barriers.
About the ABA: Thorough, good information about the American Bar Association including history, membership, and full text links to some articles of the ABA Journal.
Victim Offender Mediation Association: The Victim Offender Mediation Association, originally called the U.S. Association for Victim Offender Mediation, was created in recognition that the field was expanding rapidly and that greater networking among practitioners and other interested individuals would enhance the overall credibility of victim offender mediation and reconciliation programs within the justice community.
The Better Business Bureau Central Web Server for U.S. and Canada: The Better Business Bureau provides instant access to business and consumer alerts as well as helpful resources. Plus, you can file a complaint online and more.
Neighborhood Justice Center: The Center's primary goal is to provide local residents, businesses, and institutions with access to problem solving, dispute resolution and related legal services enabling them to effectively resolve disputes in a non-adversarial fashion.
The Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict: The mission of the Wisconsin Institute For Peace and Conflict Studies is to encourage and legitimize teaching and research on the roots of violence, on national and global security issues (including ecological security) and on all factors necessary for a just global peace in the post-Cold War world.
Litigation Support - Construction: An advertisement for litigation support in the construction field. Some good links to law related resources.
National Center for State Courts: The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the improvement of justice.
National Rules for the Resolution of Employment Disputes: These rules have been developed for employers and employees who wish to use a private alternative to resolve their disputes, enabling them to have complaints heard by an impartial person with expertise in the employment field. These procedures benefit both the employer and the individual employee by making it possible to resolve disputes without extensive litigation.
Resolving Employment Disputes: This handbook has been prepared by the American Arbitration Association to guide employers in the responsible development of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures to resolve workplace disputes.
GAMA Inc. A Brief History of Arbitration and Mediation: A brief history of arbitration and mediation.
Search for Common Ground: Search for Common Ground is an independent, non-profit, tax-exempt organization dedicated to transforming conflict into cooperative action. Our programs are designed to find workable solutions to divisive national and international problems.
RAND Institute For Civil Justice Homepage: The mission of the Institute is to make the civil justice system more efficient and more equitable. The ICJ facilitates change in the civil justice system by analyzing trends and outcomes, identifying and evaluating policy options, and bringing together representatives of different interests to debate alternative solutions to policy problems.
A.A. White Dispute Resolution Institute: The Institute is located at the University of Houston, College of Business Administration. The Web Site gives you information about its mission and training programs.
Legal Information Institute: The Legal Information Institute offers Supreme Court opinions under the auspices of Project Hermes, the court's electronic-dissemination project. This archive contains (or will soon contain) all opinions of the court issued since May of 1990.
: professional mediation service (consultation, dispute resolution, mediation)
Mediation Training Institute International: Resources for managing conflict in the workplace: HRD, conflict resolution training seminars, licensing consultants, train-the-trainers, human resource development, self-directed programs, workshops, mediation courses, and, conference speakers. Helping people work together.
The United States Department of Justice: Access to information of legal organizations, government legislation, presidential policies, law enforcement and news on the nations leading criminals via the Ten Most Wanted List.
RefLaw: Virtual Reference & Law & Legal & Government & Politics / Lissa Lord: The purpose of RefLaw is to provide access to legal reference information available on a broad range of topics.
Esq. Mark J. Astarita: Links to good page on securities and commodities law, which in turn is excellently linked to full text of statutes as well as links to other resources.
Legal Reform, Law Essays, and Wichita Falls, Texas Attorneys and Lawyers. Mediation: Union Square contains substantial on-line materials for alternative dispute resolution and mediation, tutorials on the design of web pages for lawyers, advice for thriving in law school and surviving legal practice, legal information covering a wide range of topics and information about the attorneys at Union Square.
On-Line Mediation: Creating An Environment for Mediating Disputes On the Internet: A Working Paper for the NCAIR Conference on On-Line Dispute Resolution Washington, DC, May 22, 1996.
Academy of Family Mediators: Members of the Academy of Family Mediators provide mediation services to families facing decisions involving separation, divorce or marital dissolution, child custody, parenting, visitation, property division, wills and estates, elder care, spouse support or alimony, child support, family business, pre-nuptial agreements, and many other disputes, conflicts or issues involving the family.
The National Association for Community Mediation, NAFCM: The National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM) is a membership organization comprised of community mediation centers, their staff and volunteer mediators, and other individuals and organizations interested in the community mediation movement.
Dispute Resolution Conference NCAIR: National Center for Automated Information Research, NCAIR, a non-profit, educational corporation chartered by the State of New York, has been actively engaged in the study and application of technology to the legal and accounting professions since 1966.
American Arbitration Association Home Page: A good page with information about the organization and its purposes. Bibliographic references for selected areas of arbitration/dispute resolution. Both email and snail mail addresses included for more information.
ADR Home Page: Home Page of the Florida Dispute Resolution Center (DRC). Information on ADR, links to Florida program, list of conference and training programs in the field. Documents about the center, mediation certification, etc.; links to the information about conferences and training programs and Neighborhood Justice Center.
Divorce Helpline Home Page: A genuine source of huge amounts of self-help information, including worksheets, phone numbers, and links in both the legal and emotional aspects of divorce.
National Center for State Courts Home Page: The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the improvement of justice.
Program on Negotiation: Home Page: The Harvard Program on Negotiation maintains this website as a tool for people wishing to order cases and publications, includes order forms and payment information.
UND Conflict Resolution Center Home Page: The primary purpose is to enable fair and just resolution of conflict by engaging appropriate dispute resolution techniques.
United States Department of Justice Home Page: Through the United States Department of Justice's thousands of lawyers, investigators, and agents, the Department plays the key role in protection against criminals and subversion, in ensuring healthy competition of business in our free enterprise system, in safeguarding the consumer, and in enforcing drug, immigration, and naturalization laws.
THE NEGOTIATOR PRO: A thorough advertisement for the Negotiator Pro computer program.
BBB: Alternative Dispute Resolution: Information on ADR, as advocated by the Better Business Bureau. Links to various sources on ADR, good definition.
Institute for Dispute Resolution: The UVic Institute for Dispute Resolution (IDR) was founded at the University of Victoria in 1989 as an interdisciplinary, university-based research centre focused on effective dispute resolution and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) theory and practice. The mandate of the Institute is to work toward fair, effective and peaceful dispute resolution locally, nationally and internationally.
Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution: The homepage contains information about the organization, its publications, sectors, chapters, current events and conferences.
The National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution: The National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution dedicates this biannual conference to healing, growth and action. You are encouraged to visit new places, travel new paths, experience new ways of reaching goals and dreams. We are still working to eliminate prejudice, undo isms, and create new models of inclusion and reconciliation.
Community Relations Service: The mission of the service is to prevent and resolve community conflicts and reduce community tensions arising from actions, policies, and practices perceived to be discriminatory on the basis of race, color, or national origin. The Service offers assistance to communities in resolving disputes relating to race, color, or national origin and facilitates the development of viable agreements as alternatives to coercion, violence, or litigation.
Conference Papers The Conference on Online Dispute Resolution: This site provides papers presented at the Conference on Online Dispute Resolution, convened by the National Center for Automated Information Research (NCAIR). The papers report on a six month pilot project to establish a Virtual Magistrate system, as well as other possible forms of private dispute resolution over the internet.
American Communication Association WWW: American Communication Association (ACA) is a national organization of practitioners, scholars, and students in the field of communication studies. The ACA Home Page allows hypertext access to a number of resources related to communication: including law, conflict and communication, political communication, etc. This page provides access to numerous levels of information.

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For more information contact: Guy Burgess, Co-Director, Conflict Research Consortium, Campus Box 327, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0327 Phone: (303)492-1635; Fax: (303)492-2154; E-Mail: crc@colorado.edu