We believe the Minnesota Department of Corrections is the only United States corrections department with an internal Integrated Conflict Management System (ICMS). It is over 10 years old and its purpose is to create a more positive workplace by increasing staff conflict competency with training, providing services to aid staff and others in resolving workplace disputes, changing agency culture to talking things through, aligning policy, and evaluating to continually improve. Staff members of the ICMS serve in all types of agency positions and volunteer for additional responsibilities with ICMS because of their passion for the ICMS vision.
- Pamela Donison, discussing web-based mediation. You've probably already heard of (and maybe used) Skype and GoToMeeting. As society becomes more acclimated to using web-based applications and videoconferencing in our everyday lives, Mediators have to keep up! Find out why and how you can take your services to the web.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
4pm - 5:30pm
1 in 4 adults experience a mental health problem each year. Are you sensitive to parties with mental illness?
This session opens by having a presenter with bipolar disorder explain mental illness from a cultural sensitivity perspective. We then discuss how to design a mediation process that is accessible to all comers, including folks with mental health needs. Participants learn how to focus on behaviors, not diagnoses, and how to develop appropriate boundaries.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
2pm - 5:30pm
This session is the partner session to "Introduction to Transformative Mediation." This session is an
extension of the introduction where participants will learn and see skills, interventions, and strategies of a
Transformative Mediator and explore the conceptual frameworks of Empowerment and Recognition.
Through large and small group discussion, live demo and video clips, participants will leave the session
with a clear picture of the practice of Transformative Mediation.
Kristine Paranica
Sarah Prom
Dan Simon
Thursday, October 10, 2013
4pm - 5:30pm
This workshop explores how to generate income as a workplace neutral. We will review the competitive market, emerging niches, ethical rules, evolving qualifications, and techniques for gaining visibility. We will also discuss fees and cash flow techniques to ensure your financial viability. Lastly, we will explore how to apply to mediation rosters, application to the ACR arbitrator AP designation, and other rosters. Audience participation will be encouraged.
This interactive presentation is based on a two year study of Florida family court based mediators. Analysis of their metaphors about conflict concepts resulted in the Theoretical Integrative Model of Systems (TIMS). This theoretical model identifies layers of influence that become our accepted reality in mediation. Participants will use the resulting assessment instruments to identify how metaphors and language contribute to mediation style and delivery. The presentation will conclude with practical ways for mediators and managers to utilize the TIMS model and assessment tools to initiate program changes.
Mediation and Arbitration have evolved as effective and/or efficient dispute resolution mechanisms in
commercial disputes but has the use of experts within these processes evolved along the way? Many
commercial disputes will benefit from expert analysis or opinion to move beyond various technical,
financial, legal or other information impasses. This session will cover the Expert’s, Counsel’s and the
Mediator/Arbitrator’s perspectives on the traditional approach to using experts as well as exploring new
and innovative ideas.
Dispute Resolution Boards have proven highly effective (greater than 98% success rate) in resolving disputes in segments of the construction industry and preventing claims from going to arbitration or litigation. While more successful than all other non-binding alternatives, their use has been concentrated in specific project types and limited regions. Dispute and construction professionals will benefit from exploring the principles leading to success, and the practice will benefit from broader dissemination of this exciting method.
Conversations about conflict provide parties with the opportunity to examine their own actions and
reactions. This process of reexamination inevitably evokes people’s natural defensive mechanisms.
Defensiveness prevents people from learning and blocks the potential for transformation to occur. This
workshop will look at the internal and external causes of defensiveness, as well as ways that mediators can
intentionally work with this natural phenomena.
This workshop will engage participants in exploring what it takes to build partnerships, cross-cultural sensitivity and sustainable capacity for a culture of peace, drawing from case studies and Mediators Beyond Boders’ experience in countries around the world. Participants will learn how to bridge from being mediators to peacebuilders through elicitive practice, using trauma informed principles, appreciative inquiry and mediation techniques to transform local capacities for peace in a range of contexts, including in government institutions and universities, among tribal leaders and citizens, and in the practice of civil society organizations.
The partnership between the Neighborhood Justice Center and the Civil Law Self-Help Center has resulted in an improvement and streamlining of landlord/tenant disputes being conciliated with a minimum addition intervention necessary from the court. The cases often result in a cessation in legal action from the beginning. This new normal, of having options available for landlords and tenant in a location easily accessible and with the necessary staffing, has reduced the time commitments of the court.
We believe the Minnesota Department of Corrections is the only United States corrections department with an internal Integrated Conflict Management System (ICMS). It is over 10 years old and its purpose is to create a more positive workplace by increasing staff conflict competency with training, providing services to aid staff and others in resolving workplace disputes, changing agency culture to talking things through, aligning policy, and evaluating to continually improve. Staff members of the ICMS serve in all types of agency positions and volunteer for additional responsibilities with ICMS because of their passion for the ICMS vision.
- Pamela Donison, discussing web-based mediation. You've probably already heard of (and maybe used) Skype and GoToMeeting. As society becomes more acclimated to using web-based applications and videoconferencing in our everyday lives, Mediators have to keep up! Find out why and how you can take your services to the web.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
4pm - 5:30pm
1 in 4 adults experience a mental health problem each year. Are you sensitive to parties with mental illness?
This session opens by having a presenter with bipolar disorder explain mental illness from a cultural sensitivity perspective. We then discuss how to design a mediation process that is accessible to all comers, including folks with mental health needs. Participants learn how to focus on behaviors, not diagnoses, and how to develop appropriate boundaries.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
2pm - 5:30pm
This session is the partner session to "Introduction to Transformative Mediation." This session is an
extension of the introduction where participants will learn and see skills, interventions, and strategies of a
Transformative Mediator and explore the conceptual frameworks of Empowerment and Recognition.
Through large and small group discussion, live demo and video clips, participants will leave the session
with a clear picture of the practice of Transformative Mediation.
Kristine Paranica
Sarah Prom
Dan Simon
Thursday, October 10, 2013
4pm - 5:30pm
This workshop explores how to generate income as a workplace neutral. We will review the competitive market, emerging niches, ethical rules, evolving qualifications, and techniques for gaining visibility. We will also discuss fees and cash flow techniques to ensure your financial viability. Lastly, we will explore how to apply to mediation rosters, application to the ACR arbitrator AP designation, and other rosters. Audience participation will be encouraged.
This interactive presentation is based on a two year study of Florida family court based mediators. Analysis of their metaphors about conflict concepts resulted in the Theoretical Integrative Model of Systems (TIMS). This theoretical model identifies layers of influence that become our accepted reality in mediation. Participants will use the resulting assessment instruments to identify how metaphors and language contribute to mediation style and delivery. The presentation will conclude with practical ways for mediators and managers to utilize the TIMS model and assessment tools to initiate program changes.
Mediation and Arbitration have evolved as effective and/or efficient dispute resolution mechanisms in
commercial disputes but has the use of experts within these processes evolved along the way? Many
commercial disputes will benefit from expert analysis or opinion to move beyond various technical,
financial, legal or other information impasses. This session will cover the Expert’s, Counsel’s and the
Mediator/Arbitrator’s perspectives on the traditional approach to using experts as well as exploring new
and innovative ideas.
Dispute Resolution Boards have proven highly effective (greater than 98% success rate) in resolving disputes in segments of the construction industry and preventing claims from going to arbitration or litigation. While more successful than all other non-binding alternatives, their use has been concentrated in specific project types and limited regions. Dispute and construction professionals will benefit from exploring the principles leading to success, and the practice will benefit from broader dissemination of this exciting method.
Conversations about conflict provide parties with the opportunity to examine their own actions and
reactions. This process of reexamination inevitably evokes people’s natural defensive mechanisms.
Defensiveness prevents people from learning and blocks the potential for transformation to occur. This
workshop will look at the internal and external causes of defensiveness, as well as ways that mediators can
intentionally work with this natural phenomena.
This workshop will engage participants in exploring what it takes to build partnerships, cross-cultural sensitivity and sustainable capacity for a culture of peace, drawing from case studies and Mediators Beyond Boders’ experience in countries around the world. Participants will learn how to bridge from being mediators to peacebuilders through elicitive practice, using trauma informed principles, appreciative inquiry and mediation techniques to transform local capacities for peace in a range of contexts, including in government institutions and universities, among tribal leaders and citizens, and in the practice of civil society organizations.
The partnership between the Neighborhood Justice Center and the Civil Law Self-Help Center has resulted in an improvement and streamlining of landlord/tenant disputes being conciliated with a minimum addition intervention necessary from the court. The cases often result in a cessation in legal action from the beginning. This new normal, of having options available for landlords and tenant in a location easily accessible and with the necessary staffing, has reduced the time commitments of the court.
We believe the Minnesota Department of Corrections is the only United States corrections department with an internal Integrated Conflict Management System (ICMS). It is over 10 years old and its purpose is to create a more positive workplace by increasing staff conflict competency with training, providing services to aid staff and others in resolving workplace disputes, changing agency culture to talking things through, aligning policy, and evaluating to continually improve. Staff members of the ICMS serve in all types of agency positions and volunteer for additional responsibilities with ICMS because of their passion for the ICMS vision.
When families are in crisis it is typically the “system” that intervenes to address such issues as child welfare, juvenile offending, drug and alcohol abuse, or other challenges. Often these interventions fail because they are not targeted in ways that honor the unique needs and diverse backgrounds of families, nor do they establish webs/networks of ongoing support. The Family Group Conferencing (FGC) process offers an alternative that brings together extended families (including relatives, family friends, and others) to develop a plan to address the family’s concerns. In this session the presenters will overview the FGC process and their experiences and research with FGC in a diverse array of contexts.
Many mediators and arbitrators do not have a clear understanding of what Ombuds do and where this work fits in the scheme of ADR work. This session will discuss the spectrum from Classical to Organizational Ombuds; which countries and fields tend to use the different kinds of Ombuds; the basic tenants of the Ombuds profession; best practices; and how mediators can add this work to their toolbox.
The program will focus on how we as neutrals can provide ways, through mediation, facilitation,
negotiation, arbitration and preparation (!!!) to create a “new normal” in which interactions between
parties make peace happen. Active engagement between presenters and audience will draw out the benefits
of and obstacles to achieving a more efficient, effective and affordable ADR process in the court-annexed
and litigated civil case. We have partnered with the local state court (Hennepin County (Minneapolis) to
implement a "Flat Fee Mediation Pilot Program." We will describe it and show how it can be replicated
around the country. Both presenters regularly mediate a wide variety of cases (pro bono, through the
ValueSolve and court-annexed flat fee program ("low bono") and at regular commercial rates) through ad
hoc appointments and other panel referrals such as the AAA. Both presenters are former council members
of the 400-member Minnesota State Bar Association ADR Section.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
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The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
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In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
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Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
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