Biographical Information
Institute Co-founders Institute AssociatesJames R. Antes, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology and Peace Studies at the University of North Dakota and former director of the UND Conflict Resolution Center. He has extensive experience in the field of conflict resolution as a mediator, workshop leader, and consultant. Holding a Ph. D. degree in psychology from Iowa State University, he has numerous publications and presentations at professional conferences on various aspects of conflict resolution. During the past year he traveled throughout the United States as part of a team of mediation trainers invited by the United States Postal Service to teach mediators and Postal Service employees about mediating Equal Employment Opportunity disputes under its REDRESS program (Resolve Employment Disputes, Reach Equitable Solutions Swiftly). He is currently serving as a core team member of the Practice Enrichment Initiative, a project funded by the Hewlett and Surdna Foundations to develop the practice of the transformative approach to mediation.
Robert A. Baruch Bush, JD, is the Rains Distinguished Professor of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Law at Hofstra Law School, Hempstead, NY. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Stanford Law School. At Hofstra, Professor Bush directs a clinical course in mediation and teaches other courses on ADR and on Tort Law. He has served as a consultant on dispute resolution to court and school systems in New York, California and Florida, and as a special consultant to the Hewlett Foundation's Conflict Theory Center Program. He recently finished co-directing a project in which 50 experienced mediation trainers from the US and Canada collaborated to develop new training materials focused on the transformative framework of mediation. He is now co-directing a new project --- the Practice Enrichment Initiative --- aimed at enhancing the resources available to those interested in the transformative framework, in the key areas of practice, research and policy. Both of these projects have been jointly funded by the Hewlett and Surdna Foundations.
Professor Bush is co-author, with Dr. Joseph Folger of Temple University, of The Promise of Mediation (Jossey-Bass, 1994), which received the 1995 Annual Book Award from the International Association of Conflict Management. Bush is also the author of numerous articles on mediation and ADR, including an award-winning study of mediation ethics, The Dilemmas of Mediation Practice (National Institute for Dispute Resolution, 1992).
Professor Bush has practiced mediation in various contexts since starting a community mediation program in San Francisco in 1976, and has developed and conducted many training programs on mediation and ADR, including training for lawyers and judges. He has been a featured speaker and panelist at international, national and regional programs on mediation and ADR.
Paul G. Charbonneau, M.A., is a principal in the dispute resolution firm, Charbonneau & Galloway, providing a wide range of mediation services and conflict management education programs. He has served for nearly six years as Director of the Maine Court Mediation Service, is an Instructor in Conflict Management at the University of Maine (Orono); adjunct faculty for a variety of conflict management programs at Woodbury College in Montpelier, Vermont; Instructor for the University of Southern Maine's College of Education and Office of Professional Development for graduate level courses in Conflict Management; faculty and co-founder for the Certificate Program in Conflict Management, University of Southern Maine. Mr. Charbonneau is former project director and co-editor of the nationally recognized State Justice Institute report, "Mediation in Cases of Domestic Abuse: Helpful Option or Unacceptable Risk?" and was also the editor for the Canadian sponsored North American Conference report on Mediation and Woman Abuse (Toronto).
A designated representative of the Academy of Family Mediators, Mr. Charbonneau currently serves on the Advisory Board for a special project of the American Bar Association's Center on Children and the Law, "Developing Curricula on Domestic Violence and Custody Mediation." He has presented numerous conflict resolution workshops and seminars at national, regional and state conferences as well as abroad. He served on the Board of Governors for the Maine Association of Dispute Resolution Professionals and is a member of the Academy of Family Mediators and the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution.
Joseph P. Folger, Ph.D., is a Professor of Communication at Temple University in Philadelphia. He received a Ph.D. in communication from the University of Wisconsin and served on the faculty of the University of Michigan prior to his appointment at Temple. He is a former chair of the communication department and the former Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the School of Communications and Theater. He conducts research and teaches in the area of conflict management, mediation, group process and decision-making.
Dr. Folger has worked extensively as a third party intervenor and mediator in organizational, community and family disputes. He has been the program chair for the National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution and has helped to establish several major conflict intervention programs. He is currently a senior consultant with Communication Research Associates where he conducts communication skills training, coaching and conflict intervention.
Dr. Folger has published extensively in the area of communication, conflict and mediation. His recent books include the award-winning volumes Working through conflict: Strategies for relationships, groups and organizations, 3rd Edition (with S. Poole and R.K. Stutman) and The promise of mediation: Responding to conflict through empowerment and recognition (with R.B.Bush). He has also published numerous research articles as well as the edited volume, New directions in mediation (with T. S. Jones). Most recently he completed a two-year mediation training development project funded by the Hewlett and Surdna Foundations.
Ken Fox, J.D., is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Management and Public Administration and university-wide director for conflict resolution program development at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Mr. Fox teaches conflict theory and negotiation, directs the university's undergraduate conflict study minor, its graduate concentration in conflict resolution and is part of the Hamline University School of Law's Dispute Resolution Institute. He serves on the faculty of Hamline University's International Human Rights Education and Training Institute and has led university students to Northern Ireland to study conflict in divided society. e is currently developing an undergraduate course that approaches the study of conflict from a relational framework.
Mr. Fox trains and consults nationally in mediation, dispute resolution and dispute intervention program design. He is a member of the national training team that trained US Postal Service employees and mediators in the transformative mediation framework. He has written on the relation between conflict and organizational theory and has presented at numerous national, regional and state conferences and symposia. Mr. Fox is a former member of the Oregon State Bar Association Dispute Resolution Executive Committee and former president of the Oregon Mediation Association. He currently serves as an officer of the Minnesota Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR) and as a member of the International SPIDR Working Group on Accreditation.
Donna Turner Hudson, M.A., is a mediator, trainer and consultant in the field of conflict resolution. She holds a master's degree in Educational and Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. A charter member and former Services Coordinator for the University of North Dakota Conflict Resolution Center, Ms. Turner Hudson has provided mediation and group facilitation services for a wide range of parties and disputes for the past ten years. She has developed and taught hundreds of mediation workshops and seminars throughout the upper Midwest. As part of a team of mediation trainers selected from around the nation by the United States Postal Service, Donna has provided advanced conceptual and skills training to mediators throughout the country as part of a new mediation program for postal employees. She has coauthored a recently published journal article and two chapters for an upcoming edited volume on the transformative approach to mediation.
Dorothy J. Della Noce, JD, has been active in the conflict resolution field since 1983, first as an attorney and later as a mediator, facilitator and trainer. She is a graduate of LaSalle College and Western New England School of Law. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Communication Sciences at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she was awarded a University Fellowship. Her dissertation research is on the relationship between ideological frameworks and the unfolding episodes of discourse in mediation.
Ms. Della Noce is an experienced conflict resolution educator and trainer. She presents a wide range of programs in partnership with state mediation associations, courts, non-profit and governmental agencies, and community mediation centers. Her presentations for national and international dispute resolution organizations, such as AFM, SPIDR and NCPCR, receive consistently high ratings. She has taught mediation and conflict resolution at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary. She is a member of the faculty at The National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada, where she teaches courses on dispute resolution and family mediation.
Ms. Della Noce is a member of the Editorial Board of Mediation Quarterly, and is the author of the Supreme Court of Virginia's ADR Procedures Manual as well as various articles on dispute resolution topics. She is Past-President of the Academy of Family Mediators (AFM) and Past-President of the Virginia Mediation Network.
Sally Ganong Pope, M.Ed., JD, is a private practitioner in New York City, with experience in family and divorce mediation, estate matters, family businesses, workplace disputes, and organizational conflicts. She is currently an Adjunct Professor teaching Divorce Mediation at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and has taught the mediation clinic at Brooklyn Law School and a mediation workshop at InterAmerican University School of Law, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Ms. Pope is a certified trainer for the New York State Community Dispute Resolution Centers Program and has assisted the Brooklyn Mediation Center with evaluation of mediators and training as well as serving as a volunteer community mediator. Other training activities include the design of a certificate program in mediation for Long Island University, a number of mediation trainings for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, other private trainings in New York City and Suffolk County, New York, and peer mediation training for the Student Network to Confront Racism at LaGuardia Community College in New York City.
Current President of the Academy of Family Mediators, Ms. Pope is a frequent presenter at conferences and workshops. She is the author of "Inviting Fortuitous Events in Mediation: The Role of Empowerment and Recognition", Mediation Quarterly, Summer 1996, and has spoken about mediation on CNN Financial Network and Court TV.
Judith A. Saul is the Executive Director and founder of the Community Dispute Resolution Center, Inc. of Chemung, Schuyler and Tompkins County, New York, a community-based center which provides mediation, facilitation and training services to assist in resolving community, civil and criminal court cases and visitation and custody disputes. The center's youth services include parent-teen mediation, peer mediation, anger management curricula and violence prevention training. Through Interface the center offers assistance with the design and facilitation of environmental, public policy and other multi-party disputes.
Ms. Saul is a nationally-recognized leader in the community mediation field. She served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Community Mediation from 1996-1999, chairing it during 1998-1999. She has served on the Board and the Training Committee of the New York State Dispute Resolution Association. Ms. Saul is active with Cornell University's Program on Environment and Community and, through it, has designed and implemented conflict management training for NGO field workers in Indonesia.
Ms. Saul currently serves on the New York State Unified Court System's Alterative Dispute Resolution Advisory Committee. She is also a member of Drafting Committee of the American Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Section, which is working with the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws on a Uniform Mediation Act. Ms. Saul has extensive training experience, most recently concentrating on designing and implementing basic and advanced training for mediators working within a transformative framework.