Holdman named chair of Conflict Resolution Center

Linda Holdman, program director for the University of North Dakota Teacher Field Placement—part of the College of Education and Human Development—has been named chair of the UND Conflict Resolution Center.

Holdman is a volunteer mediator for CRC and has served on the groups’ board for several years.  Staff and board members recently met to vision for the upcoming year. A new leadership workshop series will be offered to the Greater Grand Forks community in 2010-2011 by the CRC.

The CRC was established in 1988 by a group of UND faculty and staff in order to provide mediation services to the UND campus community. Since its inception, the CRC has expanded its services to meet the growing conflict management needs of our clientele. The CRC now also offers conflict management training/education, mediation training, and facilitation. It is the only community mediation and training center in the Dakotas.

The CRC is the administrative office for the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation (www.transformativemediation.org ). The ISCT is a national think-tank supported by a consortium of universities including the University of North Dakota , Hofstra Law School , Temple University , and James Madison University. The Institute provides the premier resources for the theory and practice of Transformative Mediation in the world.