CMI

CMI was created in September 2016 by a group of UNC faculty and staff who work and teach in the field. For years there have been numerous professionals on campus involved in teaching and working in negotiation, mediation, facilitation, and arbitration but with little interaction. CMI allows these individuals to better understand each other's work and to collaborate on future activities, projects, and grant applications, to share teaching methods, and more. In the long term, CMI aspires to become an Institute, which would support public events, visiting scholars, course development grants, manage communications for students, faculty, and the public, as well as to conduct workshops and to assist students with internship and job opportunities... We live in an increasingly complex world, one that sees individuals and groups move from one end of the globe to another, and organizations and companies shift and expand from one region to the next. We mix together and drift apart, sometimes..

Also known as: Conflict Management Initiative

Primary location: Chapel Hill United States