The National Conference on Current Trends in
Conflict Resolution in Higher Education

Tuesday, November 11, 2003

Concurrent Session IV

Providing Conflict Management within the Academy:
Current Resources, Challenges, and Strategies

    From a resource and design perspective at both the institution and system level, the presenters will discuss challenges and strategies in developing and implementing services for resolving campus conflict. Participants become aware of available resources, implementation options, and methods for overcoming obstacles to the university environment.

Workshop Presenters

    Bill Warters, former Co-chair of the Association for Conflict Resolution's Education Section, is Editor of the Conflict Management in Higher Education Report and Director of the Conflict Management in Higher Education Resource Center (http://campus-adr.org) funded by the Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE). He is the author of Mediation in the Campus Community (Jossey-Bass, 1999), and an instructor within the Masters of Arts in Dispute Resolution Program at Wayne State University. He holds a B.A. in Conflict Resolution from UCSC and an Interdisciplinary Social Science Ph.D. from the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

    Lin Inlow, is the Director of Conflict Resolution Education and Training at the Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (CNCR), Georgia State University's College of Law. In her role as Director with CNCR, she manages the System-wide Mediation Program that serves 34 institutions with the University System of Georgia; coordinates CNCR’s outreach activities in both public and private sector; and directs and teaches at CNCR’s Summer Institute on Conflict Management in Higher Education.

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