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Mission
The mission of the Center for Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University is to serve local, regional, national, and international public, non-profit, and private institutions and individuals as they strive to manage conflict. The Center will provide leadership in the constructive management of conflict through education, consultation, practice, training and research in the use of collaborative processes.

Available Services
 

The Center for Conflict Management offers a variety of custom designed services to meet the needs of its clients.

  • Facilitation: The Center for Conflict Management provides facilitation services to help clients' private or public meetings run productively, while teaching the skills necessary to self-facilitate future meetings.
  • Mediation: The Center offers mediations of disputes in the areas of the environment, employment, public policy, family/divorce, education, business and labor management.
  • Training: The Center's two to three-day workshops give clients the opportunity to build their conflict management, facilitation and mediation skills. These workshops utilize lecture and discussion of key theories and concepts underlying collaborative processes, as well as role playing exercises designed to build practical skills.
  • Co-facilitation, Co-mediation, and Coaching for New Facilitators: In order to enhance the skills of newly trained mediators and facilitators, as well as experienced neutrals, the Center provides coaching, co-mediation and co-facilitation as a follow up to training.
  • Dispute Systems Design: Consulting services are also offered for long-range and short-term planning. These services help promote the clients' organizational mission by developing, implementing and evaluating effective conflict management systems.
   
Other Resources

The Center has the capacity to assemble a team of qualified people to assist in facilitation, training and other services required by the client. In addition, faculty-supervised internships by students in the Master of Science in Conflict Management program and the ADR Certificate Program offer exciting possibilities for collaboration between the Center for Conflict Management and its clients.

 


Center for Conflict Management
Kennesaw State University
Building 22, Room 5030
1000 Chastain Road
MB #2205
Kennesaw, GA 30144-5591
Phone: 770-423-6299 Fax: 770-423-6880

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