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Murals and Peacemaking "The Art of Conflict Transformation in the North of Ireland/Northern Ireland"
The Art of Conflict Transformation Event Series brings artists, academics, and conflict resolvers to UMASS for public mural painting, lectures, and discussions on the transition to peace in Northern Ireland/the north of Ireland. This transatlantic event series is sponsored by UMASS Amherst in conjunction with partners in Belfast during Spring 2009 and the 2009-2010 academic year.
The 7th Forum consisted of two days of plenary sessions and breakout sessions. The Forum assembled the world's leading practitioners, academics, students, and civil society to discuss the resolution of disputes using online technologies. These disputes may range from b2c (Business to consumer) to the prevention of human rights violations in conflict regions, to reconciliation of opposing groups in armed conflict, to disputes over intellectual property on the internet. It also included the leading technology developers who design conflict resolution platforms for use legal, commercial, or insurance related disputes (i.e. PayPal).
On Monday, April 28, 2008 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst an historic event took place, the unveiling of a mural from Belfast, Northern Ireland/the north of Ireland. Recently completed, this mural was painted by two artists whose communities were previously at war: Danny Devenny, former Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner, and Mark Ervine, son of David Ervine, former Progressive Unionist Party leader and Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) member. For more details please click HERE.
The Sixth International ODR Forum on Online Dispute Resolution was held December 3-5, 2007. The Hong Kong forum followed successful gatherings in Liverpool, Cairo, and Geneva in the past several years.
ODR Cyberweek, our annual all online free ODR conference, was held October 15 through 19, 2007. We had over 300 participants from all over the world who sampled a variety of real-time and asynchronous content. Please check out the Cyberweek site as much content is still up and available. Can't find what you're looking for? Please just email us here at the Center (katsh@legal.umass.edu or gaitenby@disputes.net).
NCTDR continues its collaboration w/ the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing and the Center for Public Policy in the Societal Dimensions of NanoTechnology NSF project.
This meeting builds on prior meetings in Geneva (2001 and 2002) under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Council for Europe (UNECE), in Melbourne (2004) under the auspices of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and in Cairo in 2006 in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.
NCTDR is pleased to announce a new law school competition and to extend an invitation to enter a team. Full details and enrolment are at www.DontSue.net where you can also see screenshots of the platform to be used in the competition. The competition includes the 2008 International Competition for Online Dispute Resolution (ICODR 2008) in which 270 teams from law schools around the world have competed since its commencement. A distinguished Organising Committee has been formed.
Cyberweek 2006 is over. The Center partnered with the Internet Bar Organization to bring you a thought provoking collection of content and experiences. We had roughly 400 participants from all over the world - and we are particularly pleased to have held our first spanish language event for our new friends in Latin America. Much of the Cyberweek content is still up and available - feel free to visit anytime. Please contact the Center with questions.
The Center received a second National Science Foundation grant in support of developing ODR systems for government conflict management. In addition, we are partnering with, and have recieved similar support from, the National Mediation Board for this project. NCTDR is co-recipient with the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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2009 WORKSHOP ON ADR/ODR BARCELONA, SPAIN, SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in conjunction with the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute is pleased to invite you to participate in this workshop to be held in Barcelona on September 15, 2009. This full day workshop will take place at the Department of Law, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Avda Tibidabo, 39-43, 08035 Barcelona. Telf. (0034) 93.253.23.00.
This workshop is part of a legal studies program undertaken at the UOC at the national and international level in ADR/ODR, with the aim of making progress on building "bridges" that will allow interoperability between the current two existing pathways of justice administration (i.e., deliberative and adversarial justice). As it is known, ADR and ODR embody methods or processes that have emerged spontaneously due to challenges to courts, and are becoming catalysts of the two traditional systems of conflict resolution.
For more information and registration please visit the CONFERENCE HOME.
Recent Events
The 2009 International ODR Forum was hosted by the University of Haifa School of Law and the school's Center for Law and Technology. Since 2002, a group of academics, practitioners, and policymakers have been meeting on an annual basis to discuss developments in the field.
The first set of events took place April 26 - 30, 2009 and included virtual and
YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States - An interdisciplinary conference hosted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst
As in the previous four editions of the Workshop, the 5th International ODR Workshop aims at offered a forum for the exchange of ideas and projects between people with different backgrounds, such as providers of ODR-services, researchers in the field of ADR/ODR, law, argumentation, negotiation, and AI & Law, practitioners, justice experts, etc. The Workshop was in conjunction with JURIX 2008 and was held at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy).
The Second International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance took place in Cairo, Egypt during 1 - 4
The Center's 11th ODR Cyberweek was held October 13 - 17, 2008. Cyberweek presented a unique opportunity for individuals and organizations from all over the world to come together online for a week of ODR simulations, demonstrations, presentations, discussions, experiments, and resource sharing.
The Forum consisted of two days of plenary sessions and breakout sessions. The Forum assembled the world's leading practitioners, academics, students, and civil society to discuss the resolution of disputes using online technologies. These disputes may range from b2c (Business to consumer) to the prevention of human rights violations in conflict regions, to reconciliation of opposing groups in armed conflict, to disputes over intellectual property on the internet. It also included the leading technology developers who design conflict resolution platforms for use legal, commercial, or insurance related disputes (i.e. PayPal).
Full details and enrolment available HERE. The competition includes the 2008 International Competition for Online Dispute Resolution (ICODR 2008) in which 270 teams from law schools around the world have competed since its commencement.
ODR Cyberweek had over 300 participants from all over the world sampling a variety of real-time and asynchronous content. Please check out the Cyberweek site as much content is still up and available. Can't find what you're looking for? Please just email us here at the Center (katsh@legal.umass.edu or gaitenby@disputes.net).
Conference was held 26 October 2007 in Beijing. Conference supported presentations and discussions on substantive and procedural rules of dispute resolution and the development and practice of online dispute settlement. Click HERE for details.
International Forum on ODR "Disputes, Technology and Law: Expanding the Boundaries of Online Dispute Resolution" June 3-4, 2009
This conference brought together a diverse group from various countries and a wide range of disciplines to study these developments and reflect on future trends. Further information about the conference can be obtained HERE or from Orna Rabinovich-Einy
Murals and Peacemaking "The Art of Conflict Transformation in the North of Ireland/Northern Ireland"
in-person class visits, panel discussions on the relationship between truth
recovery, reconciliation, and public space with renowned academics and artists,
and cross community mural painting.
For more details visit HERE or contact Leah Wing
YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States
April 16 & 17, 2009 | Amherst, MA.
5th International Workshop on Online Dispute Resolution - Florence, Italy 12/13/08
2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
December 2008, co-organized by United Nations University (UNU), United
Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), and German
University in Cairo (GUC). The conference continued pursuing the
goal of building a global community of practice for Electronic
Governance.
Cyberweek 2008 - Week of October 13
Questions? Please email us here at the Center.
2008 International Forum on ODR - Victoria, British Columbia, June 18-19, 2008
The Forum in Victoria built on the research, applications and field development discussed at other international ODR meetings and workshops that were held in Geneva (2002 and 2003), Edinburgh (2003), Melbourne (2004), Bologna (2005), Brussels (2005), Cairo (2006), and Palo Alto (2007), Liverpool (2007) and Hong Kong (2007).
1st Intl. Law School Negotiation and Mediation Competition - Incorporating ICODR 2008
ODR Cyberweek 2007, October 15 - 19
Domain Name Dispute Resolution and ODR: Asian Perspective - October 26, 2007, Beijing
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Wed Jul 01, 2009White House online discussion of ODR and ADR this week
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has, for the past month, been sponsoring a large scale online discussion. The purpose of this public dialog is to generate new initiatives about how citizens might interact with government. In the first phase of the dialog, there were various proposals suggested for applications of ODR and ADR. During the last phase, which is occurring this week, ODR and alternative dispute resolution are featured prominently on the OSTP blog at http://blog.ostp.gov/2009/06/29/collaborative-problem-solving-and-alternative-dispute-resolution/ This blog posting will be open for public comment through next Monday, July 6th. If you have something, hopefully positive, to say about expanded ODR use by federal agencies, posting something to that effect would be extremely valuable and I would urge you to do so. The people in charge of the White House Open Government initiative actually are familiar with ODR and any ideas you might have about the value and benefits of ODR in the government context would, I think, have an impact. [0] comments (19 views) NCTDR Associate Chris Peterson's Research Cited in NYT, 6/29/09In a June 29, 2009 New York Times article that takes a closer look at Facebook's new privacy options, a section is devoted to NCTDR Associate Chris Peterson's draft thesis "Saving Face: The Privacy Architecture of Facebook", that was supervised by NCTDR's Alan Gaitenby and Ethan Katsh. Peterson argues that the idea that anything published ought to be understood as intended for public distribution is an antiquated understanding from the era when publishing was expensive and required a lot of effort. The opposite is true today. Likewise, Peterson argues that the dominant legal framework today "recognizes as private only that which is completely secret." Mon Jun 15, 2009What’s In A (User) Name? Facebook’s contribution to online dispute creation
by Chris Peterson and Ethan Katsh [0] comments (193 views) Tue May 05, 2009You've Got Agreement: Negoti@ting Via Email
You've Got Agreement: Negoti@ting Via Email [0] comments (442 views) Tue Apr 28, 2009Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), the financial downturn and innovation
From the ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) Blog [0] comments (248 views) Thu Apr 02, 2009Free ADR video interviews on Mediate.comMediate.com, the the premiere dispute resolution information portal, has opened its archive of video interviews for April. They've got more than 100 with the biggest names in dispute resolution (like Roger Fisher, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Len Riskin, Frank Sander, etc.) holding forth on pretty much every topic imaginable. Highly recommended. [0] comments (555 views) Wed Mar 18, 20092009 ADRNC Conference
The Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre is holding the 2009 ADNDRC Conference, focusing on domain name and IP disputes resolution, on 22 May 2009 at Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. [0] comments (591 views) Thu Mar 05, 2009Two Day ODR Course/Retreat This Summer
I'll be teaching a two-day course at the 2009 Skills Enrichment Institute, July 29-31, 2009 at the Lakeway Resort and Spa in Austin, Texas. It's going to be a really good time, with some cutting edge ODR tools for everyone to try out. Also, some really big wig ADR folks will be there: Melissa Manwaring, Nina Meierding, Bernie Mayer, Bill Potapchuk... here's the official description: [0] comments (579 views) Thu Feb 26, 20092009 International Forum on ODR - Disputes, Technology and Law: Expanding the Boundaries of Online Dispute Resolution - Haifa, Israel, 6/3-4 2009The Conference, "Disputes, Technology and Law: Expanding the Boundaries of Online Dispute Resolution", is devoted to ODR. Since 2002, a group of academics, practitioners, and policymakers have been meeting on an annual basis to discuss developments in the field. What has begun as the study of the delivery of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services online (or through software), has grown substantially over the course of these 7 years, to include a wide variety of sophisticated online dispute resolution tools and mechanisms, applied to a wide array of conflicts that range from e-commerce and domain name disputes to family feuds and peacemaking efforts. In addition, the understanding of what ODR is has undergone a significant change with several changes, such as the emergence of digital court projects, the wide availability of legal information online and the transformation of the legal profession, pushing the limits of our current understandings of the borders among ADR, ODR and law. This conference brings together a diverse group from various countries and a wide range of disciplines to study these developments and reflect on future trends. Fri Feb 20, 2009New Article
Bruce L. Mann "Smoothing Some Wrinkles in Online Dispute Resolution" [0] comments (823 views)
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