ACR Central California Chapter

And the Winner is...

This year, on Conflict Resolution Day (October 15, 2009) the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) is hosting two contests for teachers and their students to promote the annual celebration. There is a Video Contest, which is geared to College and University students. In this contest, students are invited to submit a two minute or less video depicting the power of conflict resolution. The submission time frame for this contest is September 1, 2009 to October 1, 2009. The link to information about the Video Contest is listed here:http://snipurl.com/videocontestcrday

There is also a Poetry Contest for students in elementary, middle/intermediate and high schools. This contest takes place in the Fall 2009. The link to the Poetry Contest rules and regulations is: http://snipurl.com/poetrycontestcrday.

The Central California ACR Chapter is busy planning for three upcoming events. Themes for these are September--Workplace Mediation, January--Mediator Competency, March--Many Paths and Professions. The interests and needs arose from a survey administered to members at a previous meeting.

Notice to Members

The Annual Business Meeting and Election of Officers for the Central California Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution will take place at 12:00 noon on March 20^th during the Spring Event at San Joaquin College of Law at 901 5th Street, Clovis, CA 93612

Colin Rule

Profile

Professional/Job Title:

Director, Online Dispute Resolution, eBay/PayPal

Bio

Colin Rule is Director of Online Dispute Resolution for eBay and PayPal. He has worked in the dispute resolution field for more than a decade as a mediator, trainer, and consultant. He is currently Co-Chair of the Online Dispute Resolution Committee of the American Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section, and a Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.

Colin co-founded Online Resolution, one of the first online dispute resolution (ODR) providers, in 1999 and served as its CEO (2000) and President. In 2002 Colin co-founded the Online Public Disputes Project, which applied ODR to multiparty, public disputes. Previously, Colin was General Manager of Mediate.com, the largest online resource for the dispute resolution field. Colin also worked for several years with the National Institute for Dispute Resolution in Washington, D.C. and the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, MA.

Colin has presented and trained throughout Europe and North America for organizations including the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the Department of State, the International Chamber of Commerce, and the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. He has also lectured and taught at UMass-Amherst, Stanford, MIT, Southern Methodist University, the University of Ottawa, and Brandeis University.

Colin is the author of Online Dispute Resolution for Business, published by Jossey-Bass in September 2002. He has contributed more than 50 articles to prestigious ADR publications such as Consensus, The Fourth R, ACR News, and Peace Review. He authors the online conflict resolution column in ACResolution Magazine and contributes to odr.info, a news resource chronicling developments in the ODR field. He holds a Master's degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution and technology, a B.A. in Peace Studies from Haverford College, and he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Eritrea from 1995-1997.

Personal Website

http://www.odr.info

January 23, 2009 membership meeting on school mediation

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