The Center for Dispute Resolution is a private multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural association of professionals with wide experience in conflict resolution, and additional expertise as attorneys, arbitrators, managers, psychologists, consultants, trainers and educators who use conflict resolution techniques -- especially mediation -- to prevent, manage, settle and resolve disputes, avoid litigation and improve their capacity to reach resolution in a wide variety of conflicts.

The Center has had fifteen years experience resolving complex organizational, interpersonal and public policy disputes, including grievance and workplace disputes, wrongful termination, employment discrimination and sexual harassment claims, neighborhood conflicts, divorces, family and partnership disputes, intra-organizational and commercial conflicts, among others.

The Center also regularly conducts trainings, facilitations, consultations and coaching sessions in conflict resolution and collaborative negotiation techniques for corporations, labor unions, non-profits, school districts, public agencies and individuals in the United States and abroad.

The Center also regularly conducts trainings in effective communication, team building, leadership, strategic planning, envisioning, consensus building, prejudice reduction and bias awareness, conducting effective meetings, organizational change, improving quality and customer service, and feedback, performance assessment and evaluation.

In addition, the Center offers full mediation certification classes several times a year for individuals, schools and organizations seeking training in becoming a mediator. The Center also works with organizations to design conflict resolution systems, including peer mediation programs for students and employees, victim- offender reconciliation programs, and community mediators.