Online Teaching and the Promotion of Technology-Enhanced Conflict Engagement

Week 14

Week 13

Culture, Conflict and ODR Tech

ODR Standards & Best Practices

Week 15

Moving beyond the idea that technology is "culturally neutral," we take a look at the potential influence and implications, positive and negative, of culture in the ODR field

Communication Technology and Conflict

Week 10

Weeks 11 &12

The Future of ODR

As we wrap up, we review the cutting edges of this work and talk about where the field is or should be heading.

We look at some of the exciting ways mapping, mobile technology and crowd-sourcing are being combined to work for peace, development and humanitarian relief.

Group Presentations by Sectors of Practice

Final Papers Submitted

Crisis Mapping and ICT for Dev

Week 9

Week 1

Welcome!

COM

6220

Course

Plan

We debrief Cyberweek and explore some of the applications of ODR in government and public participation processes.

• Week 1 - Course Introduction(s)

• Week 2 - CMC Overview

• Week 3 - Digital Youth & the (Non-)Neutrality of Networked Technology

• Week 4 Digital Social Activism

• Week 5 - Introduction to (Online) Communication for Interest-based ADR

• Week 6 - Negotiation w Tech as "the Fourth Party"

• Week 7 - The Current Scope of ODR Practice

• Week 8 - ODR Cyberweek Online Events

• Week 9 - ODR in the Public Sector

• Week 10 - Crisis Mapping & ICT for Development

• Week 11 - Student Presentations Begin

• Week 12 - Student Presentations Continue

• Week 13 - Culture, Conflict and ODR Technology

• Week 14 - ODR Standards and Best Practices

• Week 15 - Emerging Practices & Future Directions

We spend some time getting to know each other and exploring the overall plan for the course. We also try out Wimba as our meeting platform.

We compare E-Negotiation done via Email and Chat

Public Sector ODR

Week 6

Going Beyond a Simple Communication Model

Graduate-Level Programs in Conflict Studies are Now Common

Week 2

Online Teaching and the Promotion of Technology-Enhanced Conflict Engagement

• More than 150 Peace and Conflict Graduate programs in world

• Multi-disciplinary, majority not based in Law Schools

• Polkinghorn's 2008 survey of 94 graduate programs notes 3 general categories

• Conflict Resolution (53%)

• Alternative Dispute Resolution (23%)

• Peace Studies (13%)

• While theory was important, practice was king: 85% of programs offered conflict resolution process courses (mediation, facilitation, negotiation)

http://www.campus-adr.net/ODRmodule/

ODR = Online Dispute Resolution

Online Teaching of ODR Concepts - What should I include?

Early Texts Defining New Field and IDing Core Processes

Bill Warters, Ph.D (Syracuse PARC program)

Director, Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution Program

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

In 2009 I was encouraged by our department chair to develop an online course as an elective for our MADR program and as an addition to our graduate certificate in New Media.

Thus was born the course Communication Technology and Conflict aka COM 6220. I have taught it fully-online 3 times now, and I want to share the structure I came up with.

July 2004

April 2001

Sept 2002

Full Timeline of ODR History (by Bill Warters):

http://interactivetimeline.com/64/odr-history-timeline/

2012 = Open Access Textbook Arrives!

http://www.odr.info/node/101

Exciting News!

This week we look a bit more at the historical development of ODR, including the development of the concept of technology as "the Fourth Party" at the ADR table.

ODR Cyberweek

2014 in November

Recent Developments

• Online Courses are being developed by other groups - Daniel Rainey is a prime mover here

• I released the online learning module:

• http://www.campus-adr.net/ODRmodule/

• New online ODR journal has been published at http://www.international-odr.com

Edited by Wahab, Katsch and Rainey

Free annual online event focused on ODR topics.

CMC?

This week we explore online communication and the emergence of a field of study known as Computer Mediated Communication (CMC).

Week 8

Week 3

Technology as the 4th Party

Technology

We explore ways that networked communication technology can be used for conflict escalation/deescalation and the advancement OR suppression of human rights.

We read the novel Little Brother while digging into some of the issues related to conflicts over technology, security, privacy and the social worlds of "digital natives" and "digital immigrants."

Little Brother

Week 4

This week students get some hands-on experience with a few of the available ODR platforms, and get to engage in online discussion with the broader field at Cyberweek

Week 5

The Scope of ODR

Week 7

InfoActivism

We dig into current uses of technology to wage conflict or to try and reduce the human costs of social conflict after it has emerged. Students begin work this week on individual VoiceThreads on a social issue that interests them.

We think together about the current scope of ODR and the kinds of conflicts that are seen as appropriate.

We Try Out Some ODR Platforms

Celebrate!

We review the basics of communication theory and arguments relating to how it may or may not be appropriate for Alternative Dispute Resolution tasks. We also start the process of forming groups for the group presentations later in the course.

Students assigned task of producing VoiceThreads using Images and Audio narration

A Course by Bill Warters, Wayne State University

Intro to (Online) Communiction for Interest-based ADR

Individual VoiceThreads Submitted

Oct 16 2014 is

Conflict Resolution Day

'Online Teaching and the Promotion of Technology-Enhanced Conflict Engagement'

Bill Warters, June 2014