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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

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: Triad Conference Update

Harry C. Katz, Jack Sheinkman Professor and Director of the Scheinman Institute, discusses the recent June, 2024 Triad conference involving LERA, ILERA, and the FMCS.   
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Director's Update: Triad Conference Update

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

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.
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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: Joan Parker

Scheinman Institute board member and noted mediator and arbitrator Joan Parker shares examples of three employment cases where issues of discrimination were involved.
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Resolving the Dispute: Joan Parker

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

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

AFT/UFT Internship Program Provides Students Real World Collective Bargaining Experience

The Scheinman Institute offers students unique summer internships with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in Washington, D.C., and the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) in New York City.
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AFT/UFT Internship Program Provides Students Real World Collective Bargaining Experience

Triad 2024 Serves Up a Full Plate

There is an ‘existential’ threat to the arbitration profession, and at the 2024 Triad (ILERA/LERA/FMCS) conference in New York City, practitioners, academics and neutrals from all over the world wanted to find solutions.
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Triad 2024 Serves Up a Full Plate

Scheinman Institute Facilitating Pandemic Gear Supply Chain Improvements

The Scheinman Institute is bringing labor to the table for a U.S. project designed to equip front-line workers with effective personal protection equipment that will be widely adopted.
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Scheinman Institute Facilitating Pandemic Gear Supply Chain Improvements

Student Activities

Tiago Gonzalez '24 reflects on his internship with the AFT

Tiago Gonzalez '24 reflects on his internship with the AFT.
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Tiago Gonzalez '24 reflects on his internship with the AFT

SCRC President Naveen Sharma '24 Reflects Before Graduation

Naveen Sharma '24 reflects upon his tenure as the Scheinman Conflict Resolution Club president and what he learned about conflict resolution from the Scheinman Institute.
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SCRC President Naveen Sharma '24 Reflects Before Graduation

Scheinman Conflict Resolution Club April Update

Scheinman Conflict Resolution Club members Daniel Lang and Nathan Daley share their experiences in a recent sports arbitration simulation.
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Scheinman Conflict Resolution Club April Update

Education

AFT/UFT Interns Gain Valuable Experience

Summer Interns get hands on experience at the AFT and UFT.
Kathryn Richie
AFT/UFT Interns Gain Valuable Experience

Labor Arbitrator Development Students Continue Unique Program

Students in the Labor Arbitrator Development Program met in-person in Washington, DC, where the three days of learning focused on public sector (federal, state, and local) labor arbitration and an introduction to workplace mediation.
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Labor Arbitrator Development Students Continue Unique Program

Learning About Labor Relations in Cambodia

Alyssa Brundage '24 shares her experience taking in a winter class in Cambodia.
Cornell students with Dr. Siphana SOK in Cambodia
Learning About Labor Relations in Cambodia

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

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