Faculty

Ansley Boyd Barton, J.D., Director.

Professor Barton is Professor of Conflict Management and Director of the Master of Science in Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University. In addition to her law degree from Emory University School of Law, she holds a Master of Music from Georgia State University and a Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts in history from Emory University.

Until May of 2000, Professor Barton was Director of the Georgia Supreme Court's Office of Dispute Resolution. As the first Director of the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution, she participated in the development of a comprehensive statewide ADR system for the courts of Georgia, worked to develop a system of registration for neutrals serving in court programs, and drafted the legislation that provides for an ongoing source of funding for court ADR programs. She has worked with courts throughout the state instituting ADR programs and providing mediation training.

In addition to her teaching at Kennesaw State University, Professor Barton has taught mediation as an adjunct professor at Emory University Law School. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Regents' Initiative to bring ADR to the University System of Georgia. Professor Barton has nineteen years experience as mediator in a wide range of disputes.

Dr. Chien-pin Li.

Dr. Chien-pin Li is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Kennesaw State University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Iowa. Dr. Li was an Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan), a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States (Washington, D.C.) and a Research Fellow at the Pacific Cultural Foundation (Taipei, Taiwan). He taught at the University of Iowa, National Taiwan University, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, before commencing his tenure at Kennesaw State. In 1998, he was a Visiting Professor at Nanjing Normal University. His research interest is in the area of international political economy, including trade disputes, trade negotiations, and political-economic determinants of military expenditures. He has published articles in Asian Survey, Issues & Studies, Pacific Review, International Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. He can be reached at cli@kennesaw.edu.

Susan Summers Raines.

A.B.D., M.A., B.A. While her primary fields of interest include international, environmental and public policy conflicts, Professor Raines is interested in conflict management at all levels. Her current research interests include international environmental politics generally, and more specifically alternative dispute resolution and global environmental relations. Most recently from Indiana University, she received an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Idaho in 1995 and a B.A. in Government from California State University Sacramento in 1992. Professor Raines frequently presents her work at both national and international conferences and in a variety of academic and practitioner journals. In addition to her academic pursuits, she has designed ADR programs for state agencies in Indiana, has participated in the evaluation of the United States Postal Service's REDRESS Program, and has mediated disputes in the commercial and environmental realm. She can be reached at sraines@kennesaw.edu.

Dr. Timothy Hedeen.

Dr. Hedeen is Assistant Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University. He received his Ph.D. in Social Science from Syracuse University, where he served as a graduate assistant of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts. He has authored Using Evaluation Data to Improve Mediation Services (in process, 2002), as well as chapters in Workplace Dispute Resolution (Michigan State University Press, 1997) and the Minnesota ADR Deskbook (Minnesota State Bar Association, 1999). He has published two articles in Mediation Quarterly and served as associate editor of Social Conflicts and Collective Identities (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000). He serves on the editorial board of Conflict Resolution Quarterly, as co-editor of the Community Mediation section of Mediate.com, and is part of the Research and Evaluation component of the FIPSE-supported Conflict Management in Higher Education initiative at Wayne State University. Dr. Hedeen serves as Co-chair of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Community Mediation and directed mediation programs in Minnesota and New York prior to his arrival at KSU. He can be reached at tkhedeen@kennesaw.edu.

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