ADR and Training Organization Links
Praxis Conflict Management Services
Additional Resources
Praxis Conflict Management Blog
This open forum is dedicated to any issues pertaining to productive communications
and conflict resolution. As always, our primary goal is in finding ways to achieve win/win
outcomes.
http://praxis.choseit.com/
Training and Development Blog
This is an excellent site to read about business and training best practices. You can find
ways to increase productivity, train more effectively, and develop exciting workplace
programs and strategies.
http://tdblog.typepad.com/td_blog/
Association for Conflict Resolution
This is a professional organization dedicated to enhancing the practice and public
understanding of conflict resolution.
http://www.acrnet.org/
The Carter Center Conflict Resolution Program
The Carter Center Conflict Resolution Program focuses on preventing, resolving, and
ending armed conflict. Often with other Carter Center programs, they also work on
post-conflict peace building.
http://www.cartercenter.org/peace/conflict_resolution/index.html
Community Mediation Center, Columbia SC
The Community Mediation Center (CMC) was incorporated in 1998 as a 501(c)(3)
non-profit organization. The staff consists of an Executive Director, three Program
Coordinators, and approximately 45 volunteer mediators. They provide a safe,
non-adversarial process for people to resolve their disputes quickly, confidentially and
inexpensively. We are proud volunteers of the CMC!
http://communitymediationcenter.org/

American Arbitration Association
This is one of the oldest ADR organizations active in the United States. They have been
moving rapidly from being largely an arbitration organization to one with an interest in all
areas of ADR.
http://www.adr.org/
The United States Institute of Peace
The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan institution
established and funded by Congress. Its goals are to help prevent and resolve violent
international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and development, and increase
conflict management capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide.
http://www.usip.org/
Columbia College, Columbia SC –
Human Behavior and Conflict
Management Program
The graduate program in Human Behavior and
Conflict Management is one of an increasing
number of academic programs to focus on
developing scholarship and professional practice
in conflict management. The premise of the
program is that conflict in most arenas presents
opportunities for learning, for creativity and
constructive work, and for conciliation and moving
forward.
http://www.columbiacollegesc.
edu/graduate/conflict.asp
Mediate.com Resolutions Solutions
This is a comprehensive rich Web site full of
interesting articles and information about
mediation. They describe themselves as “the
Mediation Information and Resource Center,
where mediators, mediation organizations, and
the public meet."
http://www.mediate.com/index.cfm

Here you can find links and literature regarding dispute resolution,
communication processes, and organizational behavior. Many of these topics
can also be viewed at our blog site at http://praxis.choseit.com/ where you can
feel free to post a comment or suggest additional topics pertaining to the world
of effective communications. To read these papers and articles, simply click
on the links at the bottom of this page.