Gini Nelson's Engaging Conflicts

John B. Stephens, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Public Administration and Government at The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill’s Institute of Government, is featured in the current issue of Engaging Conflicts Today. John coordinates the Institute’s public dispute resolution program and teaches public dispute resolution and citizen participation in the Master of Public Administration program. His specialties are multi-party negotiation and consensus building. 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!), email me at engagingconflicts@gmail.com with John Stephens in the subject line and I’ll email it to you.

I’ve just published Vol. 2, #2 of Engaging Conflicts Today, featuring “Building Peace One Book At a Time” publisher Janis Magnuson of Janis Publications. Janis started her publishing company after 20 years of working as an attorney and mediator. If you are not a subscriber yet, and subscribe today through clicking on the subscription link in the right hand column, I’ll send you today’s issue. Janis most recently published Ken Cloke’s The Crossroads of Conflict, discussed in numerous previous Engaging Conflicts posts between September 4-November 6, 2007, discussing his latest book.

I’ve just published Vol. 2, #1 of Engaging Conflicts Today, featuring a “Spirit In Life and Practice: Kenneth R. Feinberg” interview. Ken was Special Master of the federal September 11 Victim Compensation Fund, an unprecedented effort to compensate the victims of 9/11. If you are not yet subscribed to Engaging Conflicts Today, please do so now (see the subscription link in the sidebar to the right), and I’ll also send you today’s issue.

Today’s issue of Engaging Conflicts Today includes the conclusion of Ken Cloke’s interview, and an excerpt of my book review of his new book, The Crossroads of Conflict: A Journey Into the Heart Of Dispute Resolution. The review is being published in full today in the Colorado Council of Mediators November newsletter, and is pending publication in the Peer Bulletin, a monthly newsletter for Peer Resources Network members. If you would like to get both parts of Ken’s interview, and aren’t already a subscriber to Engaging Conflicts Today, please do two things: subscribe to the newsletter, and send an email with “Cloke” in the subject line to gn@gnconflictmanagement.com. You can subscribe through the box provided in the sidebar on the right!