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TY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />THE DIVIDED COMlviuNITY PROJECT go.o u.ediu*A 11 I <br />Recipient of the American Bar Association's 2018 John W. Cooley Lawyer as Problem Solver- Award _r,__ <br />The Divided Community Project strengthens community efforts to transform division into action. The project ocuses on <br />how communities can respond constructively to civil unrest as well as on how they can identify and meaningfully address <br />the reasons underlying community division. <br />OUR STEERING COMMITTEE: <br />• RaShall Brackney, Chief of Police, Charlottesville, <br />Virginia; <br />• Susan Carpenter, mediator in community conflicts, <br />trainer and co-author of Mediating Public Disputes; <br />• Chris Carlson, public policy mediator and Chief Advisor, <br />Policy Consensus Initiative; <br />• Sarah Cole, John W. Bricker Professor of Law and <br />Director, Program on Dispute Resolution at The Ohio <br />State University Moritz College of Law; <br />• Michael Lewis, JAMS mediator, arbitrator, ombudsman, <br />court monitor and special master with decades of complex <br />dispute resolution experience; <br />• Grande Lum, Provost, Menlo College, former Divided <br />Community Project Director, and former Director of the <br />Department of Justice's Community Relations Service. <br />• Craig McEwen, Professor Emeritus, Bowdoin College, <br />and social scientist focusing on dispute resolution; <br />• Nancy Rogers, Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State <br />University Moritz College of Law, and former Ohio <br />Attorney General; <br />• Sarah Rubin, Technical Outreach Specialist, California <br />Department of Conservation; <br />• Joseph ("Josh") Stulberg, Moritz Chair in Alternative <br />Dispute Resolution, The Ohio State University Moritz <br />College of Law, and mediator in community conflicts; <br />• Kyle Strickland, Senior Legal Analyst, Kirwan Institute <br />for the Study of Race and Ethnicity; <br />• Andrew Thomas, mediator in community conflicts and <br />Community Relations and Neighborhood Engagement <br />Director, City of Sanford, Florida. <br />OUR LEADERSHIP: <br />Director, Becky Monroe, formerly: interim Director of <br />the U.S. D.O.J.'s Community Relations Service; Senior <br />Counsel, Civil Rights Division; Director, Stop Hate <br />Project, Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law <br />Monroe. 1187(&,osu. edu. <br />Deputy Director William Froehlich, Langdon Fellow in <br />Dispute Resolution, The Ohio State University Moritz <br />College of Law, Froehlich.28(&osu.edu. <br />FEATURED INITIATIVES: <br />1. Bridge Initiative @ Moritz <br />• Offering communities rapid consultation <br />on processes for addressing community <br />conflict, go.osu.edu/DCPbridge <br />2. American and Community Spirit Initiative <br />• Ideas for finding an American Spirit and a <br />Spirit for every community, <br />nrorit::law.osit.edu/american-spirit/ <br />Community Resiliency Initiative <br />Illustrations of broad -based community <br />planning from partner projects across the <br />country, go.osu.edu/DCPcri <br />FEATURED DCP RESOURCES: <br />Divided Communities & Social Media (2017) <br />• Strategies for community leaders dealing <br />with community division against the <br />backdrop of the challenges and <br />opportunities of social media, <br />go. ostt. edu/DCPsm <br />2. Key Considerations for Community Leaders <br />Facing Civil Unrest (2016) <br />A checklist to consider when a community <br />faces civil unrest and when that <br />community begins to build consensus <br />about dealing with the underlying <br />problem, go.osu.edtr/DCPkc <br />3. Planning in Advance of Civil Unrest (2016) <br />• Offers points to consider for a community <br />that seeks to develop a strategy to deal <br />with division before it escalates into civil <br />unrest, go. osu.etlu/DCPpia <br />The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Program on Dispute Resolution serves as the host institution. <br />The JAMS Foundation provides significant support for the Project. <br />The Kettering Foundation is an ongoing partner in the Project's work. The Jacques M. Littlefield Foundation and AAA-ICDR Foundation along <br />with Ohio State University Emeritus Academy and The Ohio State University Democracy Studies Program support the project. <br />THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY <br />MORITZ COLLEGE OF LAW <br />006 <br />FOUNDATION <br />