Post 9/11: ADR Responses and Lessons Learned

Descriptions of Activities Undertaken by ADR Professionals in Response to 9/11 and Associated Materials:

• "September 11: Moving Forward" This is a two-page reprint from a newsletter of the New York City Bar Association outlining their response to 9/11.

• Constructive Conversations for Challenging Times: A Guide to Community Dialogue from the Public Conversations Project.
• Twenty-four Plus One Things Local Law Enforcement Agencies Can Do to Prevent or Respond to Hate Incidents Against Arab-Americans, Muslims, and Sikhs from the Community Relations Service, U.S. Department of Justice.
• Al-Jazeera Facilitates Discussion. This is a discription od a program between George Mason University and the University of Bagdad attempting to create a dialogue between students of the individual nations.
• God and Allah Need to Talk. This describes a film screening held to promote healing and reconciliation.
• North of 49. This describes a documentary about arson, forgiveness, and healing in a post September 11th world.
• NYC-DR Activities After 9/11
• Constructive Conversations about Challenging Times: A Guide to Family Dialogue
• Peace in the Middle East: Focus on Isreal and Palestine. This includes a summary of the history of the region as well as a time line of Isreali/Palestinian conflict.

• Coping in the Classroom after the events of September 11, 2001: Preparing to Make Talk Work

• "Panel, Not Public, Will Pick Final 9/11 Memorial Design". This is a newspaper article.
• ImagineNY: The People's Visions. This is a summary report compiling themes and visions for rebuilding New York and revitalizing New York neighborhoods.
• Listening to the City: One Year Later. This is a report of the year after September 11th from the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York.
• "Negotiating the Future of Ground Zero". This is an article from Harvard Law Today.

• Washington Heights Inwood Coalition. This is a draft of a statement of youth program accomplishments for July 2001 until June 2002.

• "Insurance Companies Sign on to CPR's Sept. 11 Commitment". This is an article from Alternatives.
• CPR Inter-Insurer Dispute Resolution Commitment for Disputes Relating to the September 11, 2001 Disaster
• CPR Insurance ADR Pledge
• "Developer, planner settle flap: LIbeskind to receive $370G to end dispute with Silverstein, an amount much less than he had requested" This is an article from Newsday.
• "Lutheran Leader Gets Job Back After 18-Month Suspension" This is an article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
• National Association for Community Mediation articles. These are articles exerpted from The Community Mediator.
• "Rent disputes pile up downtown". This is an article from Crain's New York Business.
• Safe Horizon Responds to World Trade Center Tragedy.
• Project Announcement: 9/11 Small Business Court Assistance Project.
• "Mediation Is Tried in Post-9/11 Disputes". This is an article from the Tribecca Trib.
• Safe Horizon Mediation Programs

• "What Can We Do?". This is an article from Oprah Magazine.

• "In Appreciation of the Volunteers of the September 11th Legal Initiative". This is the program of events for a night of appreciation.

• Project Announcement: 9/11 Small Business Court Assistance Project
• The Coexistence Initiative - "Fostering Dialogue After 9/11: Changes, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned" August 2003 Meeting Report
• The Coexistence Initiative - "Fostering Dialogue After 9/11: Changes, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned" December 2002 Meeting Report
• The Coexistence Initiative - "Fostering Dialogue After 9/11: Changes, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned" July 2003 Meeting Report
• Restorative Justice And Victim Offender Mediated Dialogue in Crimes of Severe Violence
• Statement from Creative Response to Conflict regarding September 11
• "Coping with Traumatic Events: Terrorist Attacks in the United States" Special Comments for Teachers and School Personnel
• Boundaries to Practice. This is a draft of the conversation at the "Moveable Feast" event on April 2, 2003.
• "Workable Peace" high school project

• A Restorative Response to Terrorism
• Victim Offender Mediation/Dialogue in Crimes of Severe Violence
• Victim Offender Mediation Association response to September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C.

• The Association for Conflict Resolution's Policy Statement on War and Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Catholic Bishops and Muslim Leaders Issue Joint Statement
• Morton Deutsch, Columbia University Statement responding to 9/11
• Beyond September 11th. This is Eastern Mennonite University's response to 9/11.
• The 11 September 2001 terrorist attack and conflict prevention: The need to do more for prevention - not less. This essay discusses the European Union and 9/11.
• A Mediation on Justice: In the Wake of September 11. This is the Institute for Global Engagement's statement on 9/11.
• Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts' statement on 9/11

• State Bar of Texas Report and Recommendation of the Cross-Cultural Task Force

• "Legal Heavyweights to Help Decide Sept. 11 Fund Appeals" This is an article from the New York Times.
• "Facing the Limits of Law, and of Lawsuits" This is an article from the New York Times.

• Conflict Resolvers' Response to 9/11
• On Revenge. This is an article from Mediate.com.
• "The ADR Response: Avoiding Litigation, and Community Rebuilding in the Wake of the Sept. 11 Disaster". This is an article from Alternatives.
• "The Future: What can the DR community learn from Sept. 11?" This is an article from Dispute Resolution Magazine.
• "Beyond Steptember 11". This is an article from Eastern Mennonite University's Conflict Transformation Program's publication, Reflections.
• September 11th Crisis Resolution. This is an article from George Mason University's Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution.
• "Quo Vadis? Reframing Terror from the Perspective of Conflict Resolution" by John Paul Lederach
• "A Call to the Conflict Resolution Community" by Bridget Moix
• Responses to Terrorism. This is an issue of Peace Office Newsletter.
• "Response to Terrorism" by Mark. S. Umbreit
• "Talking about September 11: Sometimes even dispute resolution professionals may need help" by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen
• "Lawsuit of Victims' Compensation Fund - A Difficult Decision to Make: Suing the Terrorists is Not" by Anthony M. Sellitto, Jr., Esq.
• "Black and Red, White & Blue: What Choices Do We Have to the Attacks on America?" by Paula M. Young