Welcome to the Social-Organizational Psychology Program
Executive Education Programs in Organization Development
Website: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/odprograms/
International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution
Website: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/icccr/
The International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR) offers a concentration in conflict resolution and a Certificate of Attendance that emphasizes theory, practice and research to address the needs of individuals, school systems, communities, non-profit groups, governments and private industry. The ICCCR's mission to help individuals, as well as institutions, better understand the nature of conflict and how to achieve its constructive resolution. The Center particularly emphasizes the importance of the social, cultural, organizational, and institutional contexts within which conflicts occur.
Housed in the Social-Organizational Psychology Program in the Department of Organization and Leadership, the Center embraces an interdisciplinary approach to conflict resolution and courses are open to both degree and non-degree students, for credit or non-credit, throughout the College and the University. For courses and their descriptions, please see the program in Social-Organizational Psychology.
Research and training in the following areas are also supported by the ICCCR: (1) fostering collaborative approaches to conflict as well as developing negotiation and mediation skills; (2) conflict resolution in schools and industry, helping individuals to learn to manage their own conflicts constructively; (3) creating dispute resolution centers in schools to help students, teachers, administrators and parents resolve conflicts constructively; and (4) research and development analyzing which programs work in schools and industry. Conferences as well as consulting services and training workshops based on sound empirical theory and research are provided.
The Center is directed by Peter Coleman, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education.