Designing Dispute Systems to Prevent, Manage, and Resolve Conflict

Phone: 650.723.2465
Fax: 650.725.0253

Join Janet Martinez to learn about the art of designing systems to resolve conflicts across all types of organizations, including private, public, nonprofit, and international venues. This workshop is grounded in Professor Martinez, Lisa Blomgren Amsler, and Stephanie E. Smith’s book, Dispute System Design (2020), which applies a framework of design elements across a range of domains, including public and community justice, international and comparative systems, and multi-jurisdictional and complex systems. You will expand your understanding of diverse processes (mediation, arbitration, court), as well as other traditional and digital dispute resolution options, and learn the principles that can serve to evaluate and improve existing systems.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Janet Martinez, Director, Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program; Director, Gould Alternative Dispute Resolution Research Initiative

Janet Martinez focuses her research and consulting on the lawyer’s role in negotiation, domestically and internationally; dispute system design; online dispute resolution; facilitation of public disputes, particularly in the fields of international trade and the environment; negotiation and consensus-building training; and negotiation curriculum development for clients in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

This workshop is part of the Elements of Policy Analysis course, but all Stanford students are welcome to join us.

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