Intimate Partner Violence and Consensual Dispute Resolution
By Antoinette Delruelle, attorney and mediator with the New York Legal Assistance Group. Before becoming a mediator, I represented victims of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV[1]) in family cases and divorces for nearly two decades for the New...
Looping—Listening to Understand
By Katherine Miller and Melanie Rowen When parties are in conflict, often one of the biggest hurdles for the mediator is to help parties understand the other’s perspective. This includes understanding the matters of importance to each person in their conflict....
A Conversation on LQBTQIA+ and Gender Identity in Conflict Resolution
By Melanie Rowen For this Pride month, I had the opportunity to converse in a video with CUC’s Kayla Hellal about my own background as a queer person and attorney in the LGBTQ+ movement. I feel strongly that all of us need to look inward to investigate our...
Book Review >> Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Book review by Catherine Conner Cathy Park Hong defines minor feelings as “the racialized range of emotions that are negative, dysphoric, and therefore untelegenic, built from the sediments of everyday racial experience and the irritant of having one’s perception of...
Anti-Racism Work is Conflict Work
By Catherine Conner, Natalia Lopez-Whitaker, Lacey Wilson While the lenses of race, equity, and culture have opened widely this last year, we do not live in a post-racist society and as conflict resolution professionals, we all exist in spaces that intersect with...
A Reflection on the Derek Chauvin Guilty Verdict
We at the Center for Understanding in Conflict (CUC) soberly acknowledge that the guilty verdict cannot heal or restore the harm that generations of white supremacy, held up by our law and legal system, have inflicted on Black people and all people of color, as well...
Working with Lawyers in the Room
By Catherine Conner, Gary Friedman, and Katherine Miller Lawyers learn to see conflict as a battle between two sets of adversaries – “opposing clients” and “opposing lawyers.” Often, they are driven, even if subconsciously, to both guard and aggress for...
Stop AAPI Hate
Statement from the Center for Understanding in Conflict We stand in solidarity with Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities and individuals. At the Center for Understanding in Conflict, we recognize that our AAPI members, colleagues, friends, and...