Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution

This program provides a unique and detailed examination of the role that culture plays in conflict and conflict resolution. Mediators and other ADR professionals will analyze and attempt to resolve complex, multi-layered problems in this intensive hands-on workshop. Professor Illyung Lee, one of America’s foremost experts on the subject of cross cultural issues, will serve as lead instructor for the program.

Program Highlights

• Review of dispute resolution methods
• Cross-cultural exercise in Negotiation
• World views of cultural differences
• Communication/perception process
• Culture defined, rejected, considered
• High/low context
• Mono/polychromic
• Attribution theory
• Culture and values and the Mediation Process
• Cultural dimensions (Hofstede; Hampden-Turner & Trompenaars)
• Cross-cultural mediation exercises (international; domestic)

Each student who successfully completes the course will receive a certificate and be eligible to apply for the Cornell Roster of ADR professionals (Commercial/International Section).