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November 6, 2009 Peace in the Desert Film Screening and Panel Discussion with special guest commentary by Amos Sawyer, former President of Liberia (1990-1994)
 PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL is the gripping account of a group of brave and visionary women who demanded peace for Liberia, a nation torn to shreds by a decades-old civil war. The women's historic yet unsung achievement finds voice in a narrative that intersperses contemporary interviews, archival images, and scenes of present-day Liberia together to recount the experiences and memories of the women who were instrumental in bringing lasting peace to their country.
The following members of the UNLV faculty participated in the panel discussion immediately following the screening: Lois Helmbold, Professor and Chair of the Department of Women’s Studies; Tiffiany Howard, Assistant Professor of the Department of Political Science; and Michelle Kuenzi, Assistant Professor of the Department of Political Science.
This event was co-sponsored by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, UNLV Department of Women’s Studies, and Movies that Matter.
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News Release: Saltman Center to Screen
Film on Liberian Peace Process and Host Discussion with Former Liberian President Amos Sawyer
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11-03-09 - Las Vegas Sun: Pray the Devil Back to Hell screening and lecture with Dr. Amos Sawyer
11-02-09 - Las Vegas Review-Journal: Former Liberian president to speak at UNLV on Friday
11-06-09 - Las Vegas City Life: The power of nonviolence
11-09-09
- The Rebel Yell: Film aims to rebuild post-war Liberia
Radio Interview: KNPR's State of Nevada Interview with Amos Sawyer, airdate: 11-06-09
October 2, 2009 Getting Better Results for Clients Using a Planned Negotiation Process
 Professor John Lande,
Director of the LL.M. Program in Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri School of Law, spoke about how lawyers can get better results for their clients by using negotiation agreements. He explained how planned negotiations differ from typical ad hoc negotiations and listed advantages of planned negotiations for clients and lawyers. He described possible features in written negotiation agreements such as provisions regarding phased exchange of information, use of joint experts, and use of third-party neutrals. This includes Collaborative Law, which is a particular form of planned negotiation. A planned negotiation process is not appropriate for all cases, but when appropriate, it can produce great results. The CLE material included a sample agreement form and other practical documents.
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May 26, 2009 Superpowers and Rogue States: Reducing Nuclear Danger was the topic of the Peace in the Desert lecture presented by Robert Litwak, director of international security studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and by Stephen M. Younger, president of National Security Technologies, LLC, and senior policy scholar at the Wilson Center. The event was a collaboration of the Wilson Center and the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV.
 Robert S. Litwak
Director, International Security Studies
Woodrow Wilson Center
Robert Litwak is Director of International Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a Consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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 Stephen M. Younger
President, National Security Technologies, LLC and
Senior Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Stephen M. Younger is the president of National Security Technologies, LLC, the manager and operator of the Nevada Test Site and satellite research facilities in California, New Mexico, Nevada and Washington, D.C. He is also a Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, an adjunct faculty member at the University of New Mexico, and a Special Advisor to the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education at the University of Hawai’i Manoa.
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News release: National Security Experts To Examine U.S. Nuclear Policy and Diplomatic Steps Taken to Reduce Nuclear Threats.
Radio Interview: KNPR's State of Nevada Interview with Robert Litwak and Stephen Younger, Airdate: 5-25-09
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Las Vegas Review-Journal - 5-27-09: Rogue states test for Obama
April 7, 2009
Hon. Rebecca Westerfield (ret.),
Arbitrator/Mediator, JAMS, talked on "Whose Story is it Anyway? A Practical Guide to the Aesthetics of Mediation". She discussed the power of narrative, the space created by the mediator in bringing forth the full narrative, and how that leads to conflict resolution.
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10 Common Advocay Mistakes in Mediation (PDF)
Basic Negotiations (PDF)
Mediation Advocacy (PDF)
Mediation Checklist (PDF)
Overcoming Impasse (PDF)
Preparing for Mediation (PDF)
Traditional vs. Risk-based Mediation (PDF)
April 1-4, 2009 Louis M. Brown International Client Counseling Competition
The
Saltman Center and the Boyd School of Law hosted the 2009 Louis M. Brown International Client Counseling Competition. Read more...
 March 27, 2009 Leonard Riskin, Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law at University of Florida, Fredric G. Levin College of Law, spoke at the Annual Saltman Lecture about "Awareness and Ethics in Dispute Resolution and Law."
He explored how mindfulness, an ancient method of paying attention in the present moment and without judgment, can be combined with a focus on core emotional concerns in negotiation, to foster more ethical negotiation behavior.
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October 22, 2008 Nancy Welsh,
Professor of Law at
Penn State University, The Dickinson School of Law, gave a talk on "How Much (Im)Partiality Can We Afford in Dispute Resolution Processes?"
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October 3, 2008 Susan Sturm,
George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility at
Columbia University School of Law gave a talk on "Negotiating Workplace Equality: A Systemic Approach?"
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September 11, 2008 Daniel Schorr, Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio lectured on "Forgive Us Our Press Passes" as part of the Peace in the Desert™ lecture series.
Daniel Schorr's career has included a stint with Edward R. Murrow’s legendary CBS reporting team and a famous confrontation with President Richard Nixon. In his talk he will deal with the role of the media in conflict and conflict resolution.
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9-12-08 - Las Vegas Sun: Schorr: Ethics led him to kill some stories
9-11-08 - Las Vegas CityLife: New news is good news: Veteran newsman Daniel Schorr has a few words for you web-addled whippersnappers
9-15-08 - The Rebel Yell: Veteran reporter discusses media: Emmy Award winner Daniel Schorr addresses problems in media
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April 9, 2008 David Spencer, Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning) and Senior Lecturer Division of Law, Macquarie  University spoke on "The Lack of Enforceability of Dispute Resolution Clause in Contracts.”
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April 3, 2008 Laverne Berry, President, New York Women in Film and Television, spoke on Mediation and the Entertainment Industry. Ms. Berry is an entertainment and media business affairs attorney, a mediator, and an arbitrator. She represents on-air talent, independent producers, television and film production companies, and cable networks. She has been a Director of Legal and Business Affairs for A&E Television Networks and an executive at Thirteen/WNET, New York's premier public television station, RKO General Television, and Avon Books. For her own media work she has received two Cine Golden Eagle Awards, two Emmy nominations, and two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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March 25, 2008 Mark A. Drumbl, Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University School of Law, spoke on “Mass Atrocity and Traditional Dispute Resolution: The Rwandan and Ugandan Experiences.” Drumbl recently published a book entitled “Atrocities, Punishment and International Law,” which  takes issue with the idea that traditional litigation techniquesare the best means to deal with perpetrators of massatrocities.
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March 24, 2008 Haleh Esfandiari, the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow
Wilson Center and a well-known Middle Eastern scholar and Iran specialist spoke on "Iran-U.S. Relations: A View from Prison." Before
joining the Wilson Center in 1998, she taught at Princeton University. She is the
author of Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran’s Islamic Revolution. Her essays have
appeared in numerous books and scholarly journals and her articles have appeared
in The Washington Post and The New Republic. She was detained in Iran in 2007 for
eight months, spending over three months in solitary confinement in Tehran’s Evin
Prison. Prominent individuals, newspapers, and people worldwide protested her imprisonment.
She was released in August last year and was able to return to her family
and her work.
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Airdate: 3-24-2008
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News Clippings
3-25-08 - Las Vegas Sun article (click title for link): Engage Iran, scholar says: War and silence are not the United States’ only options (Las Vegas Sun)
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February 08, 2008 John Paul Lederach, Professor of International Peacebuilding, The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peacebuilding, University of Notre Dame, spoke as part of the PEACE IN THE DESERT™ lecture series on “The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace,” the title of his latest book. Widely known for his pioneering work on conflict transformation, Lederach is involved in conciliation work in Colombia, the Philippines, Nepal and Tajikistan, plus countries in East and West Africa. He has helped design and conduct training programs in 25 countries across five continents.
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February 4, 2008 Laura Nader, Professor of Social Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, spoke on Confict Resolution and the Anti-Law Movement: A Global Effort?. Professor Nader's current work focuses on how central dogmas are made and how they work in law, energy science, and anthropology. Nader’s areas of interest include comparative ethnography of law and dispute resolution, conflict, comparative family organization, the anthropology of professional mindsets and ethnology of the Middle East, Mexico, Latin America and the contemporary United States. She was involved in conferences in the 1960's, determining the direction the study of law in society as a part of society and not insulated and isolated from other human institutions, should take as it developed. Nader edited and published essays from these conferences as well as authoring several books on the anthropology of law, establishing herself as an influential figure in the development of the field. She is the author of Harmony, Ideology--Injustice and Control in a Mountain Zapotec Village and The Life of the Law--Anthropological Projects. In 1995 the Law and Society Association awarded her the Kalven Prize for distinguished research on law and society.
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December 6, 2007 Dennis Ross spoke as part of the PEACE IN THE DESERT™ lecture series. Ross, former director of policy planning for President George H.W. Bush and special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton, is a skilled diplomat who was intimately involved in the search for peace between Palestinians and Israelis. He has recently published a book called “Statecraft: And How to Restore America’s Standing in the World,” and is also the author of “The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace.”
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Airdate: 11-28-07
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12-9-07 - Las Vegas Sun article (click title for link): At last, a chance for peace
12-13-07 - CityLife article (click title for link): Getting our game back: America's got a global credibility problem. Dennis Ross knows how to fix it--and get out of Iraq
 November 5, 2007 Art Hinshaw, Director of the Lodestar Dispute Resolution Program and Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, spoke on "Negotiation Ethics: A Material Misunderstanding." His research and teaching interests lie in the field of alternative dispute resolution, primarily mediation and negotiation, and his primary teaching responsibility is directing the Lodestar Mediation Clinic, in which students get the opportunity to be mediators in the Maricopa County Justice Courts.
October 12, 2007 Collaboration and the Colorado River, Leading scholars and practitioners in the fields of dispute resolution, environmental law, water law and land use discussed the extent to which collaborative approaches are and should be used to resolve issues relating to the Colorado River and its surroundings. Pat Mulroy, General Manager of the Las Vegas Valley Water District, spoke at the conference luncheon. Click here to see the conference program.
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September 21, 2007 Scott R. Peppet, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Law School, spoke on “The Ethics of Collaborative Law.” Professor Peppet specializes in legal ethics and in alternative dispute resolution and negotiation. He is the co-author of both an award winning book on legal bargaining, Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes, and a leading textbook, Processes in Dispute Resolution. Collaborative law has been developed and led by groups of lawyers who are discontented with the adversarial practice of law. Attorneys practicing collaborative law agree, for example, not to mislead each other during the course of their negotiation and not to represent their clients if the case eventually goes to trial. Their goal is to facilitate a fair and reasonable settlement of the issues between their clients. The practice of collaborative law has not been without controversy; in February 2007 the Colorado Bar Association’s ethics committee declared it unethical per se, which puts Professor Peppet’s talk on the cutting edge in this newborn field of lawyering.Watch Online
June 26-28, 2007 Streetball is a form of basketball popular in urban areas that takes place on playgrounds and in gymnasiums around the world. “Hafla” is a word common to both Hebrew and Arabic and means “celebration” or “party”. Put them together and you have Streetball Hafla, a project spearheaded by the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution in the person of Mike Saltman. He supplied the funds and leadership so that over 160 Arab and Jewish teens could participate in a three day streetball tournament in northern Israel. Practicing coexistence and tolerance, Israeli and Arab teens shared rooms, played on the same teams, and went through the Anti Defamation League’s anti-bias training program together. The results? A huge success! So big that plans are in the works for a national tournament in Tel Aviv in November 2008 involving a thousand players with the same religious and ethnic mix. Click on the following links to read more:
April 4, 2007 Saltman Center Jean Sternlight gave the annual Ohio State University Moritz School of Law Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Resolution. The talk was entitled "Good Lawyers Should Be Good Psychologists: Insights for Interviewing and Counseling Clients," Sternlight and co-author Professor Jennifer Robbennolt (University of Illinois College of Law) will also publish an article with the same title in the Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution.
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March 17, 2007 Elizabeth Naccarato and Jennifer Routheaux won second place in the National Finals of the ABA Client Counseling Competition held in Dallas, TX. The theme was family law. They were the top American team, as the first place team was Canadian, and represented the U.S. in the international competition in Sydney Australia, where they finished third.
Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 1:15 pm The inaugural address of the Saltman Center’s "Peace in the Desert" Lecture Series kicked off with Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times Columnist and author of "From Beirut to Jerusalem" and "The World is Flat" who spoke on “Prospects for Peace in the Middle East.”
February 12, 2007 Prof. Michael Moffit, University of Oregon Law School, spoke on "Customized Litigation: The Case for Making Civil Procedure Negotiable."
February 01, 2007 Prof. Robert Rhee, Washburn School of Law, addressed Boyd students and faculty on "The Effect of Risk on Legal Valuation".
January 26, 2007 Symposium: "Should the Federal Arbitration Act Be Revised, and If So, How?"
Eighteen of the country's leading arbitration scholars discussed this question and made their case for either leaving the statute alone or revamping it. Their presentations are to be published in a special issue of the Nevada Law Journal. To view the symposium, Click here
November 15 (Las
Vegas) and 16 (Reno) Sponsored jointly by the William S.
Boyd School of Law at UNLV and the
School of Medicine at the University of Nevada, Reno,
Professor
Carol B. Liebman, Director of the Mediation Clinic at
Columbia University Law School, and Professor
Nancy N. Dubler, Director of the Division of Bioethics,
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Montefiore
Medical Center and Professor of Epidemiology and Population
Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
spoke on Bioethics Mediation. This area of
mediation focuses on resolving controversial end-of-life
decisions that involve members of the dying patient's family
and medical team. Making a geographic interdisciplinary
leap, Professors Liebman and Dubler also presented
this topic at November 16 to residents at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas,
then flew to Reno and presented the talk to students at the School of Medicine.
October 21, 2006 Professor
Peter Reilly, Director of Training, conducted
a program on Negotiation Training for Women,
on Saturday morning, October 21.
October 6, 2006 Senior Circuit Judge
Dorothy W. Nelson, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, spoke
on “Judges’ Views on ADR.” Judge Nelson was an early
proponent of ADR, establishing a dispute resolution center
at the University of Southern California Law Center in 1967.
She is currently the chair of the
Western Justice Center Foundation in Pasadena,
California.
September 15, 2006 Professor Jennifer Brown, Quinnipiac Law School, spoke on "The Promise and Paradox of Restorative Discipline." The concept of 'restorative discipline' merges restorative justice theory with attempts to reform attorney disciplinary processes. Restorative discipline would give more attention than our current system does to the interests and needs of clients who have been harmed by attorney misconduct. Such reforms might be able to bring misbehaving lawyers back into the fold, and even help restore the public's faith in lawyers and the legal profession more generally. Watch online in the media center.
March 18, 2006 - Jerrold Creed and Stacy Perez-Roe won third place in the National Finals of the ABA Client Counseling Competition held in St. Petersburg Florida. The theme was employment law.
March 9, 2006 - Professor Chris Guthrie - Professor Guthrie, gave the third annual Saltman Lecture, speaking about "Misjudging: Why Disputants Are Better Off in Consensual Processes than in Litigation". His comments, and commentators' responses, are to be published in the Nevada Law Journalís Winter 2006/2007 issue. Professor Guthrie is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School.
January 20, 2006 - Professor Andrea Schneider - Professor Schneider from the Marquette University Law School, gave a talk entitled "Shattering Myths: An Empirical Look at Negotiation Styles.". The event was held at the William S. Boyd School of Law and was open to the public.
November 11, 12, and 13, 2005 - Collaborative Divorce Training - A collaborative divorce training program was held at the Boyd School of Law on November 11, 12, and 13, 2005. This training was sponsored by the Collaborative Professionals of Nevada, the State Bar of Nevada, and the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution.
November 18, 2005 - Professor Clark Freshman - Professor Freshman from the University of Miami School of Law, discussed "Efficient Emotion: How Emotions and Emotional Habits Predict Success at Negotiation and First Year Grades Better than the LSAT".
October 15, 2005 - The Honorable Richard J. Goldstone, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, who presented and discussed "International Criminal Courts: Peace v. Justice." at the Tam Alumni Center.
Drawing from his various experiences e.g. as prosecutor of human rights violations (Yugoslavia and Rwanda), his knowledge of the South African "truth and reconciliation" approach, and his knowledge of many other human rights violations throughout history and around the world, Judge Goldstone discussed tensions and challenges relating to the prosecution of human rights violators, or the choice of a more reconciliatory approach.
June 3, 2005 - Dr. Michael Nagler, International Peace Scholar, Author, Professor Emeritus of Classics & Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley presented and discussed "The Promise of Peace: Exploring Nonviolence and Human Potential"
April 1, 2005 - Professor Nancy Welsh of Pennsylvania State University, Dickenson School of Law discussed "What Does Justice Have to Do With Mediation?".
March 17, 2005 - Professor Robert Mnookin gave the second annual Saltman Lecture on "The Past, Present and Future of West Bank and Gaza Settlements: The Relevance of the Internal Conflict Among Israeli Jews". His remarks, and the responses from commentators, were published in the Nevada Law Journal's Winter 2005/2006 issue. (6 Nev. L.J. 299) Professor Mnookin is the Samuel Williston Professor at Harvard Law School and Chair of the Steering Committee of the Harvard Program on Negotiation.
March 12, 2005 - The Boyd School of Law is happy to announce that second-year students Lisa McClane and Jay Odum won first place in the National Finals of the ABA Client Counseling Competition held Saturday, March 12, 2005 in California.
Lisa and Jay will represent the United States in the international ABA Client Counseling Competition to be held later this year in Hawaii. They also will be featured in a videotape of the competition sold by the ABA to law schools seeking to teach their students effective interviewing, planning, and relationship-building techniques. Click here for a photo of the winning team with Saltman Director Jean Sternlight.
October 23, 2004 - The Center hosted a symposium at UNLV entitled "Islam and the West: A Clash of Civilizations." The keynote speaker was Dinesh D'Souza, a Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Commenting at the event were Imam Mujahid Ramadan and UNLV law professors Christopher Blakesley and Jean Sternlight. The event was moderated by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Philip Pro. A recording of the event will be available.
October 14-15, 2004 - The Saltman Center co-sponsored a conference with the Harvard Program on Negotiation entitled "The Past, Present and Future of the Jewish West Bank and Gaza Settlements: The Internal Israeli Conflict." The conference, which took place in Cambridge Massachusetts, featured U.S. and Israeli politicians and academics from a broad array of perspectives and disciplines.
June 24, 2004 Domestic Violence Protocol Training - The Saltman Center co-sponsored Domestic Violence Protocol Training at the William S. Boyd School of Law.
June 18-20, and June 25-27, 2004 Divorce and Custody Mediation Training - The Saltman Center co-sponsored Divorce and Custody Mediation Training at the William S. Boyd School of Law.
March 11, 2004 - Professor Mary Ellen Reimund of the Central Washington University SeaTac Center spoke on Mediating Criminal Cases: A Restorative Approach at the William S. Boyd Law School. Click here to view photos of the event.
March 3, 2004 - Professor Jennifer Robbennolt of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law spoke on Apologies and Legal Settlement at the William S. Boyd Law School. Click here to view photos of the event.
February 27, 2004 - Professor Carrie Menkel Meadow gave the first annual Saltman Lecture and examined links between democratic theory and facilitative approaches to dispute resolution. Professor Menkel-Meadow is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where she is also Director of the Hewlett Dispute Resolution and Problem Solving Program. Click here to view photos of the event.
January 15, 2004 - The Saltman Center was pleased to co-host a short trial held at the William S. Boyd School of Law with the Eighth Judicial District Court.
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