I recently had the pleasure of presenting at New Jersey’s ADR XI. And how great is at that not only is there sufficient ADR interest and practice to warrant a yearly state conference, but that it’s been running for 11 years now!
Anyhow, at the conference, I raised this ever-popular proposition:

But the thing is, I [...]

It’s so true. Bullets kill. Kill your presentation, that is.
This summer I’m teaching a grad course in organizational dispute resolution, and organized as a seminar, student presentations make up the backbone of class.
Do you think there are lots of powerpoint presentations?
Yes, yes there are.
But that doesn’t mean the presentations get dull and [...]

Word counts can make for an interesting perspective on a set of qualitative data. Take Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a Dream” speech. There’s the straightforward way of representing the results, just giving a summary table with word use totals.
Here’s a segment of the report generated from the open-source qualitative data analysis tool, [...]

There’s a common expression that “two heads are better than one,” and that may often be the case. However, since we often bring groups together to work on resolving conflict, it’s also important to recognize when and why groups may fail at producing high-quality deliberations.
Two U Chicago scholars have released an interesting working paper [...]

Unfortunately, a glitch in my WordPress (blogging software) installation has been preventing me from posting new material, and it’s taken me a while to track down and fix the problem. All is well now. On the plus side, the time off-line means that I’ve accumulated a nice backlog of postings, so check back often.
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