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ACR Welcomes Wallace Warfield!
“Responding
to the Whole of Conflict in the 21st Century:
Challenging Conventional
Identities.”
October
8, 8:30-10:30 a.m.
 Has
ADR/CR has been
relegated to the margins of the more complex
conflict situations whether that is poverty, scarce
resource distribution, persistent and organic
organizational conflict, identity groups engaged in
intra state conflict, or other complex dynamics.
While there will always be a need for third parties
to provide intervention responses to the genre of
interest-based disputes, the "field" needs to
develop the capacity to engage these conflicts at
the structural level where complex interdependencies
exist and where the genesis of many conflicts lie.
To do so, practitioners need to determine if iconic
knowledge skills, and abilities (KSAs) that have
been the staple of the provider community since its
inception, are adaptable for these more complex and
protracted social conflicts (PSCs). Or will the
provider community be called upon to create new KSAs
that challenge conventional images and identity of
the intervenor? The latter carries implications for
how we imagine ourselves and the ethics that guide
our practice.
A
roundtable comprised of expert panelists will engage in discussion with Wallace Warfield
following the keynote address
Robert Benjamin, Adjunct
Faculty, Straus Institute for Conflict
Resolution, Pepperdine University School of
Law, Southern Methodist University’s Program on
Conflict Resolution, Washington University, GWB
School of Social Work
Homer C. LaRue,
Professor of Law, Howard University,
and
Chair-Elect, ABA Dispute Resolution Section
Joyce Neu, Mediation Expert, United Nations
Wallace
Warfield Bio
Dr.
Wallace Warfield
is an Associate Professor of Conflict Analysis
and Resolution at the Institute for Conflict
Analysis and Resolution (ICAR), at George Mason
University. He is a
reflective practitioner, trained in the area of
public administration and public policy, making
use of a full range of theory in the analysis of
conflicts and various approaches used to manage,
mitigate, and resolve such conflicts. He teaches
laboratory-simulation, practicum, and theory
courses and his field work has involved
interventions and training in complex, multi
party conflicts involving communities and
organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Along with
other ICAR faculty, he has conducted research
and training projects in conflict settings in
Africa and South America. In the latter case,
the focus has been on conflict zones of peace in
Colombia.
He is on the Editorial
Board of Negotiations Journal and is also the
author of a number of publications in the field
of conflict analysis and resolution. He is a
past President of the Society of Professionals
In Dispute Resolution (SPIDR) and a member of
the Board of Reference of the Conflict
Transformation Program, Eastern Mennonite
University.
Prior to his affiliation with
ICAR, Dr. Warfield served as a Distinguished
Visiting Fellow at the Administrative Conference
of the United States (ACUS). At ACUS, he was
responsible for helping Federal agencies build
alternative dispute resolution processes into
their administrative systems, developing and
implementing training for government contracting
offices, boards of contract appeal judges,
administrative law judges and others in the
Federal sector. Before his work with ACUS,
Dr. Warfield worked for the U.S. Department of
Justice's Community Relations Service holding
the positions of Acting Director and Associate
Director for Field Coordination in the national
office and Acting Regional Director, Deputy
Regional Director, and mediator in the New York
office.
Before joining the Department
of Justice, he served as the Deputy Director of
the Lower West Side ( New York) Community
Corporation and prior to that, he was a street
gang worker with the New York City Youth Board.
Dr. Warfield Earned his PhD from the George
Mason School for Public Policy, and MPA from the
University of Southern California, Washington
Public Affairs Center.
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