Issue 1, December 2007

DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTRE – BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER

The Dispute Resolution Centre has run ten courses between March and December 2007.  These have been Basic Mediation, Advanced Mediation, Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, and Conflict in Schools Workshops.

The written feedback and comments for these courses has been consistently excellent and are available at http://www.bond.edu.au/study-areas/law/centres/drc/drc_evaluation.html

The DRC has had the following visitors in 2007:

  • Nadja Aexander, Professor of ADR, University of Queensland
  • Marie Bismark, Doctor & Lawyer, NZ
  • Laurence Boo, University of Singapore
  • Ben Broome, Professor, Arizona State University
  • Caryn Cridland, Mediator, Relationships Australia
  • Brendan Evans, Gold Coast Psychologist and Mediator
  • Carole Grace, VADR President
  • Robyn Hooworth, Mediator, Gold Coast
  • Linda Marklund, Dispute resolution practitioner from Sweden
  • Ross McSwan, Barrister & Mediator, Sunshine Coast

Laurence Boulle’s book Mediation: Principles Process Practice has been completed in USA for publication in January 2008. This has been written with Tony Pichionni and Michael Collatrella from Southern Methodist University, Dallas and will be published by Lexis Nexis, US.

The Newsletter continues to be distributed to 4500 people. The most recent volume 25 is at http://epublications.bond.edu.au/drcn/