Center for Negotiations and Conflict Management
The Center for Negotiations and Conflict Management, housed in the Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies, provides services and education focused on negotiation skills and methods of dealing with conflict.
Established in December 1997, the center responds to a nationwide trend toward using mediation, arbitration and other types of alternative dispute resolution in numerous arenas: the courts, healthcare, employee relations, real estate, insurance, securities, public and private entities, consumer affairs and domestic matters.
The center:
- provides education, training and services in the broad field of negotiations and conflict prevention, management and resolution
- emphasizes efforts to disseminate and apply conflict management skills to nourish relationships with the community that will sustain and improve social harmony and increase economic productivity
- provides mediation services to other University System of Maryland institutions as well as to external institutions
- provides internship opportunities for students in UB's M.S. in Negotiations and Conflict Management program
- supports the University Conflict Management Service.
Who we are:
- Johannes Botes, associate professor
- John Windmueller, assistant professor
- Kerry Stephen, director, University Conflict Management Service
Contact the center:
Thomas Carney, acting director, 410.837.4061