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Presenters: Biographies and abstracts


Keynote  |  Asia-Pacific  |  Culture  |  Family/child  |  Indigenous  |  Practice skills  |  Practice theory  |  Practice values  |  Workplace  |  Workshops  |   Poster sessions

In the table below, clicking on the presenter's name in the left-hand column will take you to that person's biographical details and an abstract of the paper. Some full papers are available. These are shown in blue in the right-hand column; they can be read by clicking on the blue title.

Keynote

Kay Schaffer Telling, Witnessing and Responsibility: Reconstituting the Body Politic
Jose Ramos-Horta Bridging Religious and other Cultural Divides
Jan Jung-Min Sunoo Cross-cultural mediation
Graeme Neate Reconciliation on the ground: meeting the challenges of native title reconciliation

Asia-Pacific

Wiwiek Awiati  The use of mediation techniques for environmental conflicts in Indonesia
Ayan Bhattacharya   Conflict Resolution: Building Bridges Beyond Cultural Boundaries
Antonius Herkutanto, with Tom Fisher and Di Bretherton   Bodies and Bullets: Stretching the Limits of ADR in Indonesia
Yuval Kalish   Mediating history: The Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Ambeng Kandakasi   Conflict Resolution Practices In The Asia Pacific Region
Ambeng Kandakasi, with Regina Sagu   ADR and AusAid's Papua New Guinea Legal Capacity Building Project
Siew-Fang Law   Chinese culture and Mediation Techniques
Yung Le   Conflict resolution in the context of globalisation: preserving the intangible heritage of Viet Nam
Ian Macduff and Mereana Hond   Settling Treaty Claims in New Zealand: are we resolving or creating disputes?
Antonio Martinez  
Jacob Rumbiak, with Harry Wainggai The inspirational 12 year non-violent struggle for justice in West Papua
Regina Sagu, with  Justice Ambeng Kandakasi  ADR and AusAid's Papua New Guinea Legal Capacity Building Project
Reynaldo L. Suarez   Mediation in the Philippine Islands
Hughie TAN Yeak Hui   ADR in Malaysia - An Overview
Chuan-Cheng Wu   Issues of Taiwanese industrial disputes: the Solution of the Keelong Transportation Dispute case
Lim Lan Yuan   Development of a Mediation Culture in an Oriental Country – A Case Study of Singapore
David Syme Challenges for mediation practice in Australia: Standards for ADR: the balancing act

Culture

Di Bretherton   Conflict, language, and culture
Joanna Kalowski   Mediating across cultures: reorienting values and attitudes
Cathy Picone   Recovering from Whiteness: for whites working to end racism
Franca Petrone   Developing a culturally sensitive mediation process
Jan Jung-Min Sunoo   Cross-Cultural Mediation: "Do you see what I see?"

Family-child

Cheryl Abram ADR in the Care and Protection context - The NSW DOCS model [full report in RTF format]
Dale Bagshaw Culture and the disclosure of domestic violence in family law disputes [full report in RTF format - 26 pages]
Michael Belsky   Mediating Post-Adoption Communication Agreements
Alan Campbell   Involving children in decisions that affect them when their parents divorce
Stephanie Charlesworth   Mediation: What have we learned so far?
Tom Fisher   Judging Mediation: Judicial Settlement Conferences in Divorce-Related Disputes
Donnie Martin   Child and Family Participants in Child Protection Decision Making Conferences
Rhonda Stien   ADR in a Care and Protection Context

Indigenous

Diat Alferink   Young people, Reconciliation. Our Future 
Christine Charles, Brian Dixon, Sonia Waters, and Craig Greene   Reconciliation – The Department of Human Services’ Journey
Margaret Clark and Di Bretherton   Partnerships for Peace
Kel Dummett   Creating a flexible regional foreign policy for Australia: learning from the lessons of East Timor and applying them in West Papua
Lillian Holt   The role of humour in conflict resolution
Craig Jones   Mending Fences –The mediation of native title agreements between Pastoralists and Aboriginal Peoples
Graeme Neate   Reconciliation on the ground: meeting the challenges of native title reconciliation
Polly Walker   Mending the Web: Conflict Transformation between Aboriginal and non-Indigenous Australians

Practice skills

Debbie Dunn   "Narrative Mediation” - A Story Worth Listening To?
Michael Lang   Developing Excellence in Practice: The Path to Artistry
Deborah Lange and Catherine McMahon   "Systemic Thinking" for conversations when diverse views are present

Practice theory

Pat Marshall   Designing Dispute Resolution Systems in Educational Institutions
David Moore   When the Dispute’s not the Primary Problem: Transforming conflict through conferencing
Rick Sarre   Alternative dispute resolution and non-adversarial regulation: why are they still not mainstream and can they ever become mainstream?

Alternative dispute resolution and non-adversarial options

Thomas Trenczek   ADR and Restorative Justice Approaches under the Shadow under the (Criminal) Law (System) - The state of the art of victim-offender-mediation (in Germany), the danger of cooptation and a reconsideration of law theory
Katharine Vadura, Giancarlo Chiro, Peter Gale   Bridging the Gap: Human security, the Individual, and the State
Basil Varghese   Mediating the Minefield of Poverty and Violence
Mark Wayland   Non-violence and conflict resolution in Australia

Practice values

Jackie Bornstein   The Qualities of Peacemakers
Joy de Leo   Dialogue between cultures based on universal values
Robert Iseman   Values and restorative justice: The South African example 
Pat McIntyre   Choice meets for Vegetarians: a peace praxis
Rhian Williams   Mediation – the good, the bad and those without standards

Workplace

Rose Boucaut   Workplace bullying: policy development, implementation and barriers to reporting
Kathleen Giles   Dealing With Different Work Styles - Moving from Aggravation to Appreciation
Ken Rigby and Fiona Underwood  Bullying in Schools and the Workplace: International Perspectives on the nature, prevalence and consequences of bullying
Sandy Policansky   Workplace Conflict Resolution - Issues and Dilemmas for Practitioners
Joanne Staugas   Commercial Mediation
Juan Tausk   Business mediation in family enterprises

Workshops

Tim Clarke   Meaning and understanding in a multi-cultural world
Shirli Kirschner Designing Conflict Management systems
Mereana Hond, and Ian Macduff  Settling Treaty Claims in New Zealand: are we resolving or creating disputes?
Hugh Landerkin and Andrew Pirie   Judicial Dispute Resolution 2001: A Space Odyssey or Modern Reality Check? 
Jan and Brenda Sunoo   Coping With Grief at the Workplace
Michael Willis   Learning from each others' mediation successes
Julia Wolfson   Talking Paper: getting people talking together - a visual dialogue resource

Poster sessions

David Baker   Collaboration and Networking across the Asia-Pacific region: Is there a role for an Asia-Pacific Dispute Resolution Website?
Shona Erskine   Conflict resolution in cross-cultural settings
Tania Miletic   Ethnic identity, memory and conflict: Effects of the Balkans conflict on Young Australians from Croatian and Serbian origins
Judith Morrison   Comparing Conflict Theories for Scoping Problems and Means for Their Resolution 
Jaime Tan   Negotiation on-line: Does the medium make a difference?

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