Concurrent Session II
Friday November 3, 1:30pm-4:00pm

Culture and Identity

Panel Chair: Dan Terris, Brandeis University, Peace, Conflict and Coexistence Studies

“Transformation and Empowerment of Muslim Women through Islam and Conflict Resolution”

Sana Saeed, George Mason University, Virginia

“Cultural Conflict in the US: Competing Identities and Values”

Pamela Creed, George Mason University, Virginia

“An Ethnographic Synopsis of American Muslim Representation Following the Events of 9/11”

Tony Gaskew, Nova Southeastern University, Florida

“Cultural Impacts on Intercultural Relationship Conflict”

Hong Ren, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania

"The Conflict Resolution Skills of Academically Successful Inner City High School Students"

Sarah Woodside, UMass Boston, Massachusetts

Media and International Conflict
Panel Chair: Ellen Hume, UMass Boston, Center on Media and Society

“Public Relations and Diplomacy: Using Commercial Communications to Resolve International Conflicts”

Bobby Huen, Nova Southeastern University, Florida

“The Representation of the Arab Israeli Identity in the Israeli Media, and the Construction of the Jewish Israeli Identity”

Dana Selinger-Abutbul, Tel Aviv University/Brandeis University, Massachusetts

Health Care Conflict

Panel Chair: Carol Ellenbecker, UMass Boston School of Nursing

“Evidence of Role Conflict among Home Healthcare Nurses”

Linda Samia, UMass Boston, Massachusetts

“Workplace Bullying Experienced by Nurses Newly Licensed in Massachusetts and the Relationship to Intention to Leave the Organization”

Shellie Simons, UMass Boston, Massachusetts

“Bio-Ethics Mediation at the End-of-Life: An Unused Model?”

Jeanne Ten Broeck, University of Baltimore, Maryland

 

Conflict Dynamics and the ADR Process
Panel Chair: James Kerwin, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School

“‘This is Not a Negotiation:’ The Use of Reframing In Conflict”

David Alpher, George Mason University, Virginia

“Explorations of Mediator Schema”

Tiffany Butts, Rutgers University, New Jersey

“Presence of Dialogue in Mediation: A Buddhist Oriented ‘Relational Worldview’ as Means for Transformation”

Ran Kuttner, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts