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Scheinman Institute Conflict Resolution Club

About the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution

The Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution is the world’s preeminent institute focused on workplace conflict resolution. 

Watch how the Scheinman Institute addresses the critical workplace conflict resolution challenges of our time through its research, teaching, training and outreach.

Upcoming Events

Webinar Series

Strategic Problem-Solving: Solutions to Workplace Conflict

We invite you to participate in a monthly series of workshops promoting a problem-solving approach to labor-management conflict. Heightened workplace conflicts in recent years has involved more frequent strikes and disputes concerning issues such as workloads, staffing, scheduling, and health and safety matters.

Rethinking Workplace Conflict: Approaches and Processes

Recognition of the role of diversity, equity, and inclusion in workplace conflict necessitates that labor and management incorporate new approaches to managing conflict and potentially retool some existing dispute resolution methods. Panelists will illustrate a spectrum of conflict resolution processes – from restorative justice approaches to more traditional processes such as collective bargaining, grievance handling, mediation and arbitration -- and how to expand our conflict management capacity to include multiple perspectives and approaches.

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Rethinking Workplace Conflict: Approaches and Processes

Strategic Collective Bargaining: Adaptation and Response

Case studies and other direct experience from current manufacturing, public sector, healthcare, and non-profit sectors will be examined. The cases will be used to clarify how technology, demographics, workforce shortages, and changing consumer demand and expectation create workplace conflict. We will discuss how innovations in collective bargaining, use of labor-management committees, labor-management partnership, and new forms of internal workplace dialogue can lead to productive problem resolution. Participants will be able to take practical experience back to their workplaces.

Workshop NYC
Strategic Collective Bargaining: Adaptation and Response

Director Updates

Harry C. Katz is the Jack Sheinkman Professor and the Director of the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution.  He is also the current President of the International Labor and Employment Relations  Association (ILERA).

Director's Update: Collective Bargaining

Institute Director and Jack Sheinkman Professor Harry Katz discusses the current state of collective bargaining and its impact on labor-management relations.
Professor Harry Katz
Director's Update: Collective Bargaining

Scheinman Institute Director and ILERA President Harry Katz Featured in New Video

In a new video on the important work of the International Labor Employment Relations Association (ILERA), Institute Director and ILERA President Harry Katz is featured discussing his goals on expanding ILERA's mission into Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Screenshot from the ILERA video featuring Institute Director Harry Katz
Scheinman Institute Director and ILERA President Harry Katz Featured in New Video

How the Pandemic Has Impacted Conflict Resolution

Director of the Scheinman Institute Harry Katz talks with leading experts about the impact of the pandemic on the work of arbitrators, mediators, attorneys and Ombuds.
Katz video series
How the Pandemic Has Impacted Conflict Resolution

Developing the Next Generation of Arbitrators

The Scheinman Institute has spearheaded three initiatives to develop an inclusive next generation of arbitrators. The Institute has partnered with the National Academy of Arbitrators in a major research study to ascertain, among other issues, the demographic profile of its members. In April of 2023, the Institute held a conference in New York City to identify steps to increase the inclusiveness of the arbitration profession. The Institute has developed a third cohort of its Labor Arbitrator Development Program.

Here is more information about these initiatives. 

Director's Update: Creating A More Inclusive Arbitration Profession

Director Harry Katz discusses the Institute's initiatives to make the arbitration profession more inclusive.
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Director's Update: Creating A More Inclusive Arbitration Profession

Scheinman Institute Driving Diversity Initiatives For Arbitration Profession

Through its research, teaching and outreach the Scheinman Institute is spearheading initiatives to diversify the arbitration profession.
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Scheinman Institute Driving Diversity Initiatives For Arbitration Profession

Scheinman Institute Helps Launch Arbitration Career

The Scheinman Institute Labor Arbitrator Development Program helped Sarah Espinosa launch a career as a successful arbitrator.
Sarah Espinosa
Scheinman Institute Helps Launch Arbitration Career

Resolving the Dispute

The Scheinman Institute Advisory Board has many notable arbitrators and mediators, who are leaders in the field. The “Resolving The Dispute” video series features members of the Board highlighting some of their most interesting cases, the issues involved, and the approach they used to come to an equitable solution.  

Resolving the Dispute: Scott E. Buchheit

Board member and noted arbitrator Scott E. Buchheit  shares the unique challenges he faced in an interesting and unusual case at a large zoo.
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Resolving the Dispute: Scott E. Buchheit

Resolving the Dispute: Timothy Taylor

Scheinman Institute Advisory Board member Timothy Taylor recounts a sensitive case involving school employees and charges of sexual harassment.
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Resolving the Dispute: Timothy Taylor

Resolving the Dispute: Edwin Baum

Advisory Board member Edwin Baum highlights the important differences between remote and in person mediations.
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Resolving the Dispute: Edwin Baum

Professional Training

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We bring together the insight of leading scholars, researchers, and practitioners to design training courses for the modern workplace. We specialize in work – from HR practices to labor relations and conflict-resolution strategies. We train people who change their organizations.

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Highlights

Register Today for A Special Webinar: Outcomes of the UAW Strike

The ILR School is presenting a special webinar on November 27 at 1PM for a discussion about the outcomes of the strike on the auto industry and the American workforce. 
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Register Today for A Special Webinar: Outcomes of the UAW Strike

Learn Collaborative Problem-Solving Strategies and Tools for the Workplace

The Scheinman Institute will present a free 75-minute interactive webinar focused on collaborative problem-solving strategies
Scheinman Dec 6 webinar
Learn Collaborative Problem-Solving Strategies and Tools for the Workplace

An Inside Look at the WGA Strike

An inside look at the 2023 WGA strike with Scheinman Institute Director Harry Katz, ILR Professor Adam Seth Litwin and WGA Chief Negotiator Ellen Stutzman.
WGA webinar
An Inside Look at the WGA Strike

Student Activities

Scheinman Conflict Resolution Club Update

Callie Burns '25 shares her experience participating in in a Scheinman Conflict Resolution Club union and management collective bargaining simulation.
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Scheinman Conflict Resolution Club Update

Scheinman Conflict Resolution Club Update - Fall 2023

SCRC's President Naveen Sharma discusses some of the club activities for the fall of '23.
Naveen Sharma
Scheinman Conflict Resolution Club Update - Fall 2023

Scheinman Institute/UFT Intern Kathryn Ritchie

Kathryn Ritchie '24 discusses her internship with the United Federation of Teachers.
Kathryn Ritchie
Scheinman Institute/UFT Intern Kathryn Ritchie

Education

AFT/ Cornell - Scheinman Institute Collective Bargaining Certificate

The AFT/Cornell - Scheinman Institute Collective Bargaining Certificate Program has trained over 400 participants.
Randi Weingarten, President of the AFT
AFT/ Cornell - Scheinman Institute Collective Bargaining Certificate

Campus Mediation Class Exposes Students To Restorative Justice

Naomi Samuel discusses what she learned in the Scheinman Institute's Campus Mediation Program.
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Campus Mediation Class Exposes Students To Restorative Justice

My Vietnam Experience

An ILR student reflects on their experience in the Vietnam Engaged Learning Program.
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My Vietnam Experience

The issues surrounding conflict in the workplace are the center of our public discourse and public policy.

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It takes a certain set of skills and expertise to navigate this changing landscape.

"With my wife, Laurie, we endowed the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution to provide students, professionals and others interested in dispute resolution with the tools they need to help create a better society. Today, Scheinman Institute faculty and alumni stand at the forefront in resolving the most complicated and significant work-related issues."

-Marty Scheinman, Founder Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution

Find out more about our mission and people.