Association for Conflict Resolution—Giving Voice to the Choices for Quality Conflict Resolution

ACR Announces Grande Lum as 13th Annual Conference Keynote

“Helping parties through difficult conflicts is what I have devoted my career to and what I am passionate about. In communities throughout the country there are going to be issues that cause tension, and I feel honored and privileged to be leading an agency created explicitly to resolve such conflicts.”   READ MORE

Announcement of Call for Submissions - CRQ Journal

Call for Submissions Organizational Dispute Resolution Conflict Resolution Quarterly publishes scholarship on relationships between theory, research, and practice in the conflict management and dispute resolution field to promote more effective professional applications. Conflict Resolution Quarterly is sponsored by the Association READ MORE

ACR Update February 2013: President's Message

Dear Colleagues, Last month I asked you to share your experiences in making peace happen when parties in mediation and other facilitated conversations began to work together to resolve their differences. Several of you shared heartwarming stories about how parties, who were previously entrenched in conflicting positions, started listening to each other and communicating with each other READ MORE

Making Peace Happen in Elder Mediation by Carolyn L.Rosenblatt

A part of the Making Peace Happen series of stories by ACR Members featured in the ACR Update. I'm an elder mediator. I recently worked with a family of 3 sisters who had grown so suspicious and distrusting of each READ MORE

What is Conflict Resolution?

Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) refers to any process or collection of processes established to resolve disputes without trial or violence. The term “ADR” is often used to refer to a broad category of “ADR processes” such as negotiation, conciliation, mediation, settlement conferences, arbitration, consensus building, and community conferencing. READ MORE