Recently Partner Christopher Moore and Principal Jonathan Bartsch facilitated a regional ICLA training on Collaborative Dispute Resolution Skills in Afghanistan. The Norwegian Refugee Council has published an article about the work that they did, including links to further information about work in the area. To read more, click here.

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Jonathan Bartsch

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Our first heartbreaking news concerns Mark Hummel, an attorney in Phoenix, Arizona and a nephew of our colleague in Wyoming, Steve Smutko. Mark was representing a client in a mediation session in Phoenix. An hour after the meeting broke up, both Mark and his client were shot in front of building where the mediation had taken place and later died. A complete description of the event and thoughts about ways we might approach difficult and potentially dangerous situations of this nature can be found here.

We send our condolences to Mark’s family and friends.

The other story is of two long and very well-respected members of the ADR community who were badly injured in a pedestrian accident in London in February. Lisa Bingham and Terry Amsler, who were in London attending a conference, were hit by a bus and remain in comas in London hospitals. Lisa is a professor at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Education and a well-known author. We have known Terry over many years, when he was at the San Francisco Community Boards and then as a Program Office at the Hewlett Foundation. He is now the Director for the Collaborative Governance Initiative at the Institute for Local Government’s Public Engagement Program in Sacramento, California.

They are in our thoughts and we wish them both speedy recoveries. Click here for more information.

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Facilitation and Mediation of Public and Environmental Conflicts – May 21-23, 2013

The Facilitation and Mediation of Public and Environmental Conflicts course is now full. We will offer the course again in Spring of 2014.

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Both courses are located in Boulder, Colorado. For more information check out why choose CDR or contact  cdr@mediate.org  or 303-442-7367.