The strongest security does not come from guns, police, armies or control, but from vulnerable and honest relationships. Richmond's Conflict Resolution Center contributes to these relationships throughout our community through working with suspended and expelled youth, mediating teen-parent and landlord-tenant conflicts, and teaching a depth and breadth of conflict resolution and restorative justice skills. CRC's Program Director Aaron Nell will share about this work at Peace Forum on October 9 at noon. Free, delicious lunch provided. Located in the Earlham School of Religion Dining Room on the campus of Earlham College in Richmond.

While every day provides opportunity to creatively engage conflict, Conflict Resolution Day was initiated in 2005 to increase public awareness about conflict resolution and its many benefits. The Conflict Resolution Center in Richmond is hosting a presentation by John Krauss, Director of the Indiana University Public Policy Institute. Dr. Krauss' speech, in Reid Hospital's Lingle Grand Hall, will be at 8:00 a.m. and is open to the public. An optional breakfast at 7:30 requires reservations by Friday, October 10 through the Conflict Resolution Center (765-973-8511).  continue reading »

Mediator Training with the Conflict Resolution Center in Richmond will be taking place September 26, 27, 28 & October 10, 11, 12 at Indiana University East. Mediator Training focuses on communication skills and mediating family, neighborhood, workplace and a variety of other disputes. Participants also complete post-training role play mediations, and are then ready for mediating community conflicts with the guidance of a CRC Mentor Mediator. For more information about the training, contact CRC at 765-973-8511.

How do the members of a community deal with harm or hurt between one another? Please join Adrien Niyongabo, Molly Slothower, and the Conflict Resolution Center of Richmond in an exploration of how justice, healing, and reconciliation work is being practiced in communities around the world and in our own.

Saturday, March 29th 2008 from 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM in the Dining Room at the Earlham School of Religion. For more information, contact the Conflict Resolution Center at 765-973-8511.

The Conflict Resolution Center reeived a grant to offer two trainings - Family Group Conferencing and Family Group Decision Making. CRC would recommend the first of these for those interested in learning whether or how to incorporate Conferencing Circles. This training is offered at no cost (donations accepted). The trainings are as follows:

March 19-20 Family Group Conferencing - 8:30-4:30 p.m.
Registration begins at 8 a.m., lunch is provided.

March 21-22 Family Group Decision Making - 8:30-4:30 p.m.
Registration begins at 8 a.m., lunch is provided.  continue reading »

The Conflict Resolution Center's Mediator Training course will be held on January 19-21 and February 2-4 at Earlham College's Landrum Bolling Center, Room 124. The course provides an intensive training experience for those who want to learn how to mediate conflict in their own lives, in their communities, and for the Conflict Resolution Center as a part of its case work in Wayne County. For more information or to sign up, call 765-973-8511 or e-mail info@conflictrescenter.org.

Aaron Nell, former ESR student and director of the Conflict Resolution Center in Richmond, discusses the use of the Alternatives to Violence model in the local jail. Free lunch and good company. When: Thurs., Nov. 16, 12 - 1:10 p.m. Where: Seminary dining room at the Earlham School of Religion.

Do your friends, roommates and loved ones come to you with their conflicts? Want to learn how to better help coach them through their conflict with others? This workshop is for you! Learn constructive techniques for coaching individuals through conflict situations. These skills will be helpful in separate meetings, in mediation, and in real life. Transformative mediation trainer Lisa Marie Napoli of the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute will provide an interactive, informative workshop at the Conflict Resolution Center office on the IU East campus.  continue reading »