We serve client organizations like yours—corporations, non-profits, government agencies, community groups—facing real world challenges that would benefit from strategic negotiation and conflict management advice, or dispute resolution system evaluation and design. A team of our students, trained in both the theory and practice of dispute resolution, will spend a semester exercising their skills and knowledge on behalf of your organization and receive academic course credit for their work.
For a fuller listing of our clients, please see Our Projects. To find out more about working with HNMCP, visit our Becoming a Client page.
2020 Spring Projects
Center for Conflict Resolution
Semester: 2020 Spring
Project Type: Dispute System Evaluation
Students: Sydnee Robinson, Lucy Prather, & Daniel Sylvia
The Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR) provides free mediation services for issues of community concern across the Circuit Court of Cook County, currently handling over 1,500 cases annually with the support of volunteers and staff. In 2017, CCR began accepting referrals to a new pilot mediation program for non-intimate parties’ Stalking/No Contact Order cases. Parties… More
New Hampshire Judicial Branch
Semester: 2020 Spring
Project Type: Dispute System Evaluation
Students: Samuel Feigenbaum & Jessica Ljustina
Project description to come . . .… More
Office of Special Council
Semester: 2020 Spring
Project Type: Dispute System Evaluation
Students: Kira Hessekiel & Sean Tannenbaum
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is an independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency whose authorities come from four federal statutes: the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, the Hatch Act, and the Uniformed Services Employment & Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). The Alternative Dispute Resolution Unit’s Mediation Program mediates Prohibited Personnel Practice… More
University of Cincinnati Ombuds Office
Semester: 2020 Spring
Project Type: Dispute System Evaluation
Students: Peter Daniels & Katie Cordova
The University of Cincinnati (UC) Ombuds Office, celebrating 50 years of continuous operation in 2020, works frequently on cases around evaluative relationships at the university; perceptions of fairness around policy and decision-making; matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion; and promoting transparent and appropriate communication among parties. As an organizational ombuds office, the UC Ombuds staff… More
Waukegan CUSD #60
Semester: 2020 Spring
Project Type: Strategic Negotiation Advice
Students: Eva Wolfangel, Aarya Shinde & Malorie Frayssinet
Project Description to come . . .… More