ROUNDTABLE BREAKFAST: Calming Unproductive Conflicts: What We Can Offer to Today and Tomorrow's Leaders

ACR-GNY & CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College present

Calming Unproductive Conflicts: What We Can Offer to Today and Tomorrow's Leaders

Mediation and ADR as we know it today started as an ambitious socio-legal movement propelled in great part by the 1976 Pound Conference on the Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice. Like other successful change efforts, it followed an S-Curve and is now fully married into civil law. The collateral ambition of influencing political cultures has not gotten as far. There are small bright spots but maybe the stage is set for a new S-Curve. This discussion will draw from Peter Adler's 2024 book, Calming the Storm: A Leader's Handbook for Managing Unproductive Conflicts, which provides a reservoir of ideas that can be used and adapted for diverse, individual situations.

PETER ADLER, PHD

Peter Adler, PhD is a partner in GUILD Consulting and the former President and CEO of The Keystone Center (www.keystone.org). Adler’s specialty is multi-party problem-solving for policy and governance disputes and for enterprises seeking operational excellence, strategy, and alignment. He has extensive national and international experience with business and policy negotiations and writes, trains, and teaches in areas of conflict management. Adler is a former Peace Corps Volunteer and Outward Bound instructor, has held executive positions with the Hawai‘i Supreme Court, Hawai‘i Justice Foundation, and the Neighborhood Justice Center, and served as president of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. He has authored five books and other professional and popular publications.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Roundtable Breakfasts are virtual meetings on Zoom. The link will change each month and will be distributed to all registrants the day before and the morning of the event. All listed times for ACR-GNY events are for Eastern Time. 8:00 am – 8:30 am | Join call to network with attendees 8:30 am – 10:00 am | Presentation and Discussion About the Roundtable Breakfasts The Roundtable Breakfasts are organized by ACR-GNY and the CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College. They take place the first Thursday of the month and are ongoing since 2001. Views expressed in connection with any Roundtable event publicity or at sessions are those of the speakers and participants and not of the CUNY DRC or ACR-GNY. This program is supported by ACR-GNY's 365 Sponsors: