Mediation/Alternate Dispute Resolution
Career Opportunities
- Education - train students and teachers to provide peer mediation
programs or you may find work as a community or cultural liaison
officer.
- Teachers may mediation training to teach children to get along
with others or to develop
a peer mediation training program for their school.
- Teachers may mediation training to teach children to get along
with others or to develop
a peer mediation training program for their school.
- Family mediation - Opportunities in counseling, theology, family
law practice or private practice. This might include the provision
of mediation, facilitation and dispute- resolution system design
services in conjunction with a law practice or a human resource
consulting business.
- Victim-offender mediation - Individuals with a background in
human justice, social work or community development may find opportunities
in community dispute resolution centers.
- General skills enhancement - working in the human resource field
may wish to use their training to improve their collaborative problem-solving
and decision-making skills.
- Government - Working for an agency nationally or globally settling disputes of all nature.
Websites:
American Institute of Mediation
American Mediation Association
Advocacy Mediation Human Services
CA
Academy of Distinguished Neutrals
Conflict and Resolution Center Santa Cruz: volunteer, workshops
Conflict
Resolution: links
Conflict Resolution
Information Source: training, job listing
David Finch
Mediation Service: N. CA
First Resolution Services, Inc.
Impartia:
company based in Silicon Valley
JAMS: training,
job listing
Jobs
in mediation: and internships
Mediate. Com:
job listing
Mediation guidelines
and essays
Mediation Works Inc.
North American Mediation Associates
PAWSS
Peace Studies Resources
Peace Learning Center: IN, jobs
Penninsula Conflict Resolution Center: job listing
Promediation: job
listing
Search for Common Ground: jobs, internships, list of collaborating organizations
Where Peace
Lives: conflict resolution and peace building through art and
media
Professional Organizations
American Arbitration Association
American
Center for Conflict Resolution: degrees/training
American
Political Science Association, Conflict Processes Section: job
listing
Association for
Conflict Resolution: job listing under “Resources”
International
IDEA
International Listening
Association
Institute for Multi-track
Diplomacy: internships
International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution
International Ombudsman Association
National Arbitrators
and Mediation
National
Association for Community Mediation
National Peace Corps
Association: internships
Network of Communities
for Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution
North American
Institute for Conflict Resolution: links
Peace
and Justice Studies Association
Peaceful
Schools International
Peace
Learning Center
Search for Common
Ground
Southern CA
Mediation Association
USA Ombudsman Association
Victim Offender Mediation Association
VORP of Central Valley: training
Government Agencies:
Congressional
Research Service: job opportunities
Federal mediation and Concilitation Service
National Labor Relations Board: job listings
Peace Corps
US Agency for International
Development: jobs, fellows
US.
Equal Opportunity Commission: job listing
United States Institute
of Peace: job listing, grants, fellowships
Other Resources
Book: Becoming a Mediator : An Insiders Guide to Exploring Careers
in Mediation by Authors: Peter Lovenheim, March, 2002 ISBN: 0787950610
Hardcover
Mediation Career Guide: A Strategic Approach to Building a Successful Practice, Forrest S. Mosten, September, 2001 ISBN: 0787957038 Paperback
