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• The Better Agreement Guide: A Pro-active Guide to Creating Better Understanding and Avoiding Conflict. Within our lifetime few things are more important than our ability to communicate, to express ourselves so that we are understood and to listen and hear what other's have to say to us. Communication is the core of developing and maintaining relationships in our personal life or within our business life. Thus, the skills to communicate well, create agreement and to know how to resolve conflict are essential to achieving our personal goals.

• Resolutionary Thinking: The Power of Resolutionary Thinking. The critical success factor for resolving any conflict is the mindset or attitude you bring to the process. This idea is reflected in the fear of many courageous mediators that helped to birth mediation as a profession. As mediation was achieving enormous growth in the 90's the concern arose that mediation would become another hurdle to complete on the way to the courthouse, the place where cases settle. Wether because of economic self-interest or just a failure to adopt a different mindset the mediation process becomes much less powerful than it might be if people came to the process with a "Resolutionary" attitude.
  
  In ResolutionWorksOnline one of the first modules provides the 10 principles that make up "Resolutionary" thinking. If everyone in the process adopts a mindset reflecting these principles resolving the conflict becomes a much simpler process.

• ResolutionWorks Online Demo: What Is ResolutionWorks Online? ResolutionWorks Online! is a comprehensive e-learning training program of collaboration, agreement and conflict resolution. This program is designed to help people understand, engage and practice the principles contained in the body of work, of Stewart Levine, Esq. The beauty of the e-learning tool is that it allows people to learn from their own workspace without the need for travel, at a time that best suits their needs. The system provides access to other learners participating in the program as well as a skilled moderator who adds structure, feedback and guidance to deepen one's learning experience and assist the transition to practice. The tool enables an entire organization to adopt common language and common practices around collaboration and conflict resolution that will both improve productivity, and save the enormous costs of conflict.

• Democracy Design Workshop: The Do Tank strives to strengthen the ability of groups to solve problems, make decisions, resolve conflict and govern themselves by designing software and legal code to promote collaboration.  Tools alone cannot create a culture of strong groups.   Hence Do Tank projects address the role of legal and political institutions, social and business practices and the visual and graphical technologies -- what we term the "social code" -- that may allow groups, not only to foster community, but to take action. Our innovation laboratory centers around three fundamental design principles:
  
  --Design for the group not the individual.  In groups people can accomplish what they cannot do alone.
  --Make the group graphical.  Use the graphical, networked screen to help the group see its own values, rules and practices, thereby giving rise to social institutions.
  --Embed structures through technology. Improve collaboration through the design of social and legal structures and replicate those structures through the interface.
  
  The Do Tank targets the "capability gap" in practicing collaboration and forming groups among people who realize the opportunity for more collaborative decision-making in their governments, communities, businesses, or other organizations but do not have the experience, skills, models or tools to fulfill the potential.
  
  We bring "democratic" approaches to bear on our design work -- democratic understood, not as political ideology, but as a way of life where people work together to pursue shared goals.
  
  To this end, we develop graphical and visual prototypes; convene "conspiracy" meetings to design collaboratively with the input of engaged thinkers from a wide variety of disciplines;  and run workshops to develop strategies for transforming prototype into rough consensus and running code.  We also pursue scholarship, writing and theory on the impact of technology on the future of a democracy of groups.
  
  For more information, please contact David R. Johnson at davidr.johnson@nyls.edu or Beth S. Noveck at bnoveck@nyls.edu
  

• The UDRP: The Globalization of Trademark Rights by David W. Maher

• PAPER: Regulation of ODR by Rafal Morek, University of Warsaw
• PAPER: Online Arbitration by Rafal Morek, University of Warsaw