Faculty

Dr. Linda M. Johnston, Director

Dr. Linda M. Johnston is Director of the Master of Science in Conflict Management and Associate Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University, and a Master’s (Major: Institutional Administration, Minor: Adult and Continuing Education) and Bachelor’s (Major: Dietetics) degree from Michigan State University. Dr. Johnston serves on the Board of the International Peace Research Association, and the Executive Committee of the International Peace Research Association Foundation (IPRAF). She administers the Senesh Fellowship program for the IPRAF. Her current research interests include racial and ethnic conflict, conflicts in health care, narrative and discourse analysis, and world view conflicts. Her most recent work has included a year-long Fellowship with Hands Along the Nile to develop dialogues between Egyptians and Americans, administering a State Department funded grant to develop a Peace Institute at Tavrichesky National University in Ukraine, worked with the ADR Association of Barbados, and conducting workshops in the Republic of Georgia. Dr. Johnston co-authored a report on the viewpoint of employers on the current status of jobs in the field of International Conflict Resolution; a project funded by the Alliance for International Conflict Prevention and Resolution and administered by the Alliance for Conflict Transformation. She authored a chapter on Narrative Analysis in Doing Research: Methods of Inquiry for Conflict Analysis (Sage Publications, 2005).

She can be reached at ljohnst9@kennesaw.edu.
Dr. Johnston's Vitae

Dr. Susan Summers Raines

Dr. Raines’ research interests include international environmental politics generally, and more specifically alternative dispute resolution in multi-party governmental conflicts. She was recently named as the editor of Conflict Resolution Quarterly and publishes regularly on the topic of environmental and commercial dispute resolution. 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 mediates domestic, civil and public policy disputes and has designed and evaluated Alternative Dispute Resolution programs for numerous state and federal agencies.

She can be reached at sraines@kennesaw.edu.
Dr. Raines' Vitae

Dr. Timothy Hedeen

Timothy Hedeen is Assistant Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University. He provides mediation services through court and private programs, delivers trainings in the areas of conflict resolution and communication, and conducts research and evaluation on dispute resolution. He serves on the editorial board of Conflict Resolution Quarterly, as chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution’s Community-based and Peer Mediation Committee, and former chair of the board of directors of the National Association for Community Mediation. He is a senior consultant to the Consortium for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education.
 Dr. Hedeen has published articles related to the evolution of community mediation in Conflict Resolution Quarterly (2004), the institutionalization of mediation in Mediation Quarterly (1998, 2000) and Penn State Law Review (2003), on a stage model of co-optation of social movements in The Sociological Quarterly (2005), and has on coercion n mediation in Justice System Journal (2005). He has written on teaching and training in Conflict Resolution Quarterly (2005) and Teaching Sociology (2003). His present research projects include analysis of conflict resolution curricula at the undergraduate level and of family law education in law schools.

He has prepared the reference manual Using Participant Feedback to Evaluate and Improve Quality in Mediation (2002) and authored chapters for professional references including the American Bar Association’s ADR Handbook for Judges (2004) and the Minnesota State Bar Association’s ADR Deskbook (1998). Hedeen served as associate editor of Social Conflicts and Collective Identities (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) and wrote the epilogue to Workplace Dispute Resolution (Michigan State University Press, 997). He is an active member of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, the Association for Conflict Resolution, the National Association for Community Mediation, the Law and Society Association, the American Sociological Association, and the Peace and Justice Studies Association.

He can be reached at tkhedeen@kennesaw.edu. Visit Dr. Hedeen's web site.
Dr. Hedeen's Vitae

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