Gini Nelson’s Engaging Conflicts

“You see, ADR is inevitably a discretionary practice…So any practitioner will be investing personal values into any ADR action, and we have to be immensely self-aware about the values that we bring to the table (and, of course, deciding to shelve personal values is also an ethical decision).” — Kevin Gibson

Kevin Gibson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and management at Marquette University. He is the director of the Marquette Center for Ethics Studies. He studied with the Harvard Negotiation Project and CDR Associates of Boulder. Dr. Gibson has mediated commercial, environmental, divorce and child custody disputes as well as facilitating a number of settlement conferences. He has worked as a mediator and coach for CDR Associates and the University of Denver Law School. He has published a number of articles on dispute resolution in journals such as the Negotiation Journal, Mediation Quarterly and the Hastings Center Report. At present, he is a teaching associate with the Marquette Center for Dispute Resolution Education.

If you would like a copy of his interview, and are not signed up for the newsletter (which you can do in the sidebar on the right!), e-mail me this week at engagingconflicts@gmail.com with Kevin Gibson in the subject line and I’ll e-mail it to you.

I previously posted about Kevin’s articles in the Negotiator’s Fieldbook, Ethics and Morality in Negotiation, here.