Colloquium Series - Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution

Fall 2009

Wednesday September 23, 2009

Rezarta Bilali

Assistant Professor, UMass Boston Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution

McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies

Understanding the Past, Reconciling the Future:

A Social Psychological Perspective of Intergroup Conflict

5:30 – 7:00 PM

UMass Boston Campus Center, Third Floor, Room 3540

see flyer for additional information  DisRes Colloquium1_9_23_09_Rezarta_Bilali

Thursday October 22, 2009

Douglas Thompson

Senior Associate, Keystone Center Science and Policy Program

The Role of the Neutral: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same (Or Not)

5:30 – 7:00 PM

UMass Boston Campus Center, Third Floor, Room 3540

see flyer for additional information DisResColloquium2_10_22_09_Doug_Thompson

Tuesday November 17, 2009

Larry Fox

Consultant

Mediating in the Labor Movement - Anatomy of a Failed Mediation Effort: The Case of Unite Here

5:30 – 7:00 PM

UMass Boston Healey Library, Eleventh Floor, Room 11B

see flyer for additional information DisRes Colloquium3_11_17_09_Larry_Fox

Tuesday December 15, 2009

TBD

5:30 – 7:00 PM

UMass Boston Campus Center, Third Floor, Room 3540

 

Spring 2009

Monday February 9, 2009

Robert Bordone

Director, Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program

Thaddeus R. Beal Assistant Clinical Professor of Law

Designing Dispute Resolution Systems

5:30 – 7:00 PM

UMass Boston Campus Center, Third Floor, Room 3540

 

Thursday March 5, 2009

Ahmad Hajazzi

Director, School for Peace at Neve Shalom/Wahat-al-Salaam

an Arab/Jewish "intentional community" in Israel

Dialog Between Israelis and Palestinians

5:30 – 7:00 PM

UMass Boston Campus Center, Third Floor, Room 3540

 

Monday April 6, 2009

Stephen Karam

Senior Urban Economist, World Bank

Development in Conflict-Affected Settings --What Money Can't Buy: The Case of  the Gaza Industrial Estate in West Bank and Gaza

5:30 – 7:00 PM

UMass Boston Campus Center, Third Floor, Room 3540

Note: Stephen Karam suggests the attached piece on the World Bank's current thinking on working with Fragile States as background reading in advance of the lecture.   It's a speech delivered by World Bank President Zoellick at the US Institute of Peace.

 

Annual Slomoff Lectureship has been re-scheduled to Fall 2009

 

Tuesday May 19, 2009

Dispute Resolution Masters Candidates

Masters Project Presentations

5:30 – 7:00 PM

UMass Boston Campus Center, Third Floor, Room 3540

see flyer for details