Fall 2008 Courses

 

ORLJ 5340:
Basic Practicum in Conflict Resolution & Mediation
3 credits or non-credit
This course is the first of six in a series leading to a Certificate of Attendance in Conflict Resolution, and provides experience in developing basic collaborative negotiation and mediation skills for interpersonal conflict in a variety of contexts.

Students will be required to complete pre- and post- course assignments. Please call (212) 678-3402 for more information.

Section 001: (CRN: 30178)
Instructors: Bridget Regan, J.D. & Michele Riley, J.D.
Workshop Dates: September 5, 6, 7 & September 19, 20, 21
Times: Fridays 4-8pm
Saturdays and Sundays 9am-5pm
Location: TBA

Section 002: (CRN: 30398)
Instructors: Patricia Barnes, J.D. & Robert Anderson, Ed.D.
Workshop Dates: September 12, 13, 14 & September 26, 27, 28
Times: Fridays 4-8pm
Saturdays and Sundays 9am-5pm
Location: TBA

Section 004: (CRN: 30305)
Instructors: Patricia Barnes, J.D. & Camilo Azcarate, J.D.
Workshop Dates: September 11, 18, 25, October 2, 16, 23, 30 & November 6, 13
Times: 9 Thursday nights, 5pm- 9pm
Location: TBA

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ORLJ 6040, 001:
Fundamentals of Cooperation, Conflict Resolution and Mediation
in Different Institutional Settings
3 credits or non-credit
Instructor: Peter T. Coleman, Ph.D.
This is an advanced theory seminar that will cover topics such as cooperation and competition, power, culture, justice, negotiation and mediation, violence, and intractable conflict as they relate to theoretical and practical issues of conflict management and resolution at the intra-psychic, interpersonal, intergroup, organizational, and international levels. It will emphasize the links between theory, research, and practice in conflict resolution.

Section 001: (CRN: 30213)
Workshop Dates: Weekly, Wednesday nights. (9/3/08-12/17/08, except 11/26/08)
Times: 5:10 - 6:50 pm
Location: TBA

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ORLJ 5148, 001:
Special Topics: Managing Conflict in Organizations
3 credits or non-credit
This course is designed to address conflicts in the context of organizations from both theoretical and practical points of view. We will review the latest research findings about what causes conflict in organizations, how the issues are framed, how the conflicts are managed and how conflict impacts the parties involved and the organization as a whole.

Section 001: (CRN: 31667)
Instructor: Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Ph.D., C.C.S
Workshop Dates: September 8, 15, 22, 29, October 3, 4, 5, 6, 13
Times: Mondays 7:20-9pm; Friday 4-8pm; Saturday 8:30am-5:30pm; Sunday 9am-5pm
Location: TBA

Section 002: (CRN: 31896)
Instructor: Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Ph.D., C.C.S & Michele Riley, J.D.
Workshop Dates: September 10, 17 October 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 15, 22
Times: Wednesdays 7:20-9pm; Friday 4-8pm; Saturday 8:30am-5:30pm; Sunday 9am-5pm
Location: TBA

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ORLJ 6350, 002:
Advanced Practicum in Conflict Resolution, Part ONE: Intergroup Conflict & Third-Party Interventions
3 credits or non-credit
Instructor Approval Required- Prerequisite: ORLJ 5340: Call (212) 678-3402
Instructors: Robert Anderson, Ed.D. & Audrey Charlton, Ph.D.
This is an applied course in the ideas and skills which are useful when intervening in inter-group conflicts. Building on the theories, models and concepts from the Fundamentals course (ORLJ 6040) and the skills learned in the Basic Practicum (ORLJ 5340), this course will explore some of the intervention skills needed when conflicts of interest are complicated by complexity and perceived/real differences.

Section 001: (CRN: 30919)
Workshop Dates: November 7, 8, 9, 21, 22 & 23
Times: Fridays 4-8pm
Saturdays and Sundays 9am-5pm
Location: TBA

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ORLJ 5012, 002:
Organizational Internship: Community Mediation
3 credits or non-credit
Instructor Approval Required- Prerequisite: ORLJ 5340: Call (212) 678-3402
Students will participate in two weekend workshops. Following the workshop, students can elect to conduct supervised community mediation.

Section 003: (CRN: 30264)
Workshop Dates: December 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14
Times: Fridays 6-9pm
Saturdays & Sundays 9am-5pm
Location: TBA

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ORLJ 5016, 004:
Special Topics: Healing and Reconciling Relationships in Conflict
1 credit or non-credit
Instructor: Donna Hicks, Ph.D.
This course examines the role that unaddressed and unhealed emotional trauma plays in creating and maintaining conflict.  It also highlights unaddressed trauma as an obstacle to reconciliation—our ability to put the past to rest and to rebuild relationships that have broken under the strain of conflict. The course will present the Dignity Model—a way of repairing, reconciling and building human relationships.  

Section 004: (CRN: 31677)
Workshop Dates: November 14, 15, 16
Times: Friday 4-8 pm
Saturday & Sunday 9am-5pm
Location: TBA

 

For registration information, please contact:

The International Center for Conflict Resolution (ICCCR)
232 Horace Mann Building
525 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027
(212) 678-3402
icccr@columbia.edu