Mediation and Dispute Resolution Certificate Program

Mediation and Dispute Resolution

Certificate Program

At Capital University Law School

Advance your career. Enhance your life.

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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser--in fees, expenses, and waste of time.

Abraham Lincoln

Message From Academic Directors

Being able to settle differences could make a world of difference in your career.

In every sphere of human activity, disputes are inevitable, and the ability to resolve them is highly valued. It follows, then, that whatever your field of endeavor, proficiency in managing conflicts could present countless opportunities for your personal and professional growth.

There is a tendency to think of dispute resolution as the exclusive domain of lawyers and union negotiators. Yet having the know-how and skill to appropriately manage conflict situations is valuable for business leaders and managers, healthcare specialists, human resources supervisors, customer service personnel, educators, and government agency administrators--virtually anyone interested in using well-tested techniques to resolve, reduce or prevent conflicts.

Capital University Law School has been active in the dispute resolution movement, both nationally and internationally, for more than 35 years. Capital is respected for its innovative training in the field and has been working to expand the awareness and use of dispute resolution in the insurance industry, courts, legal profession, state and local governments, educational settings, business environments, health professions, and the community at large.

Today our law school, with its Dispute Resolution Program, is a leading institution for everything related to this rapidly growing discipline: academic studies, training, consultation, research, and program and materials development. We work with individuals and organizations across the spectrum of business and industry as well as professional groups, public entities, and government agencies.

Once you decide that knowing how to resolve conflicts can be an extremely valuable asset, your decision as to where to obtain the best training is an easy one. You can enroll in our Mediation and Dispute Resolution Certificate Program--a superbly integrated combination of academic study and skills training. You can advance your career, maximize your organization's success, and enhance your personal life by making dispute resolution one of your strengths. And there is no better place or more opportune time to do that than right here . . . right now.

Scott Dewhirst

Terrence Wheeler

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Real people. Real skills. Real solutions.

Students enrolled in our Mediation and Dispute Resolution Certificate Program are diverse in age, sex, race, ethnicity, academic and personal backgrounds, occupations, goals and motivations. What they have in common is their appreciation for the importance of acquiring effective dispute resolution skills as part of their career development.

You will find yourself in an interactive learning environment with students representing the fields of business, government, law, healthcare, human resources, psychology, religion, and more.

The learning environment encourages students to discuss and apply dispute resolution theory and processes to real life conflicts. Students emerge from the certificate program confident in their ability to use real skills to face real conflicts to help themselves and others achieve real solutions. 2

Advance Your Career. Enhance Your Life.

Enhance job skills

Like many participants, you may want to strengthen or broaden the conflict management and negotiation capabilities you bring to your present job, particularly if you are a supervisor or interact with others regularly. Our students come from a variety of unique professional backgrounds, including healthcare, faith communities, legal services, public service, and academics. There is a growing awareness among company owners and senior managers of the costliness of drawnout disputes. Valuable staff time and money can be saved through expeditious resolution of internal controversies, as well as disagreements with vendors and others outside the company.

Obtain full-time work

Some people in our program--lawyers and non-lawyers--are focused on finding a full-time job in either the public or private sector. Opportunities for permanent positions in dispute resolution are steadily increasing in the public arena, both in state and federal government agencies and in the courts.

Add a professional service

Our program attracts a substantial number of individuals in "helping professions," such as mental health professionals, counselors, psychologists, social workers, clergy, etc. Many simply want to enhance their negotiation skills or add mediation and arbitration or some other conflict management skill to their portfolio of services.

Become a third-party neutral, trainer or consultant

Recognizing the growing importance of dispute resolution training, a number of our students intend to work full-time in this field as trainers or consultants with public or private sector clients. We encourage participants to make themselves more marketable by building on their previous experience and combining dispute resolution talents with the expertise they've already acquired.

Learn a new "life" skill

Unresolved conflict can create one of life's most stressful situations. Individuals can look forward to a more peaceful and rewarding life when they become skilled at resolving conflict, both for themselves and for others. Conflict resolution and mediation techniques can help us all on the job, in society, and in our own personal lives.

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