This conference explored and
challenged our assumptions about creating educational experiences in conflict resolution.
We heard four rounds of presentations from older practice disciplines; each was followed
by small group discussions. We intended that these discussions would reverberate, and that
educational change commitments, research team formation, and collaborations would evolve
from this conference.
AGENDA
Thursday
5:00 pm Registration
5:30 Reception
6:30 Dinner
Introductions & Orientation to the Conference
Keynote Presentation:
Wendell Jones, Ph.D.
Laboratory Ombudsman
Sandia National Laboratories
Topic: Learning in the light of complexity science, linguistics, and the
neurosciences
Moderator: Scott H. Hughes
Friday: Cycles of Learning
Cycle I
8:30 am Plenary: Medicine
Stewart Mennin, M.D.
Assistant Dean, Educational Development and Research
College of Medicine
University of New Mexico
Topic: Problem Based Learning in Medicine
Moderator: David Levin
9:30 Small group work: Identifying and Challenging Assumptions
11:00 Break and posting of small group reports
11:15 Plenary: High Tech
Pace VanDevender, Ph.D.
Chief Information Officer
Sandia National Laboratories
Topic: Learning from Pasteur, Edison and Bohr
Moderator: Kathy Domenici
12:15 Pick up lunch and go to small group
12:30 Small group work: Identifying and Challenging Assumptions
(Lunch with small groups)
2:00 Break and posting of small group reports
2:15 Plenary: Architecture
Andy Pressman, Professor & F.A.I.A.
Director, Architecture Department
College of Architecture and Planning
University of New Mexico
Topic: Learning Strategies for Architects
Moderator: Ric Richardson
3:15 Small group work: Identifying and Challenging Assumptions
4:45 Break and posting of small group reports
5:00 Mid-Course Discussion: Reviewing today’s learning and planning for
tomorrow (moving from receiving and discussing to action)
5:30 Adjourn sessions
6:30 Reception & Dinner at University of New Mexico School of Law
Saturday - Complete the Cycles, Begin Application of Learning
8:30 am Plenary: Navajo Peacemaking
Philmer Bluehouse
Peacemaker Liaison
Judicial Branch
Navajo Nation
Moderator: Wendell Jones
9:30 Walking, thinking, and challenging
10:30 Break
10:45 Meeting I with interest groups
Participants will self-select to areas for planning/discussion/ decision-making. These may
be by market (e.g. law school), by teaching approach (e.g. role-plays) or by research
interest (e.g. how students learn mediation).
Noon One-minute summaries: Groups give presentations.
12:30 Meeting II with interest groups
(These groupings may continue from the morning, or may take a different
"cut" across the matrix of subject/market/research interests. Lunch with small
groups.)
2:00 Commitments: Final presentations on designated research, emergent
collaborations, and evolving interests or projects.
3:00 Closing comments and reflections: Friendship Circle
3:30 Adjourn
Organizing Committee:
Kathy Domenici
Chris Honeyman
Scott Hughes
Wendell Jones
David Levin
Ric Richardson
Andrea Schneider
Plenary Presenters:
Wendell B. Jones
Dr. Wendell Jones is the Laboratory Ombudsman for Sandia National Laboratories, in which
capacity he is involved in about 200 disputes, and conducts approximately 70 mediations,
each year. Formerly, Dr. Jones served for nine years as the manager of several materials
science research departments at Sandia, after serving as a member of the technical staff
since 1976 and a supervisor since 1982. He is also active in the volunteer mediation
community; he is a volunteer mediator for the New Mexico Center for Dispute Resolution
(NMCDR), and President Emeritus of the Board of Directors of NMCDR. He is First Vice
President of The Ombudsman Association (TOA). He holds a Ph.D. in materials science.
Andy Pressman
Andy Pressman, FAIA, is director of the Architecture Program at the University of New
Mexico and leads his own architectural firm based in Albuquerque. His work has been
featured in over twenty professional, scholarly, and popular publications, including
Architectural Record, Architecture, and The Washington Post. He has written five books on
architecture (most recently, "Architectural Design Portable Handbook,"
McGraw-Hill, 2001), and holds a master's degree from the Harvard University Graduate
School of Design.
J. Pace VanDevender
As Chief Information Officer at Sandia National Laboratories, Dr. VanDevender is
responsible for the information infrastructure, for cybersecurity, and for making
information technology a compelling advantage for doing science, engineering and
manufacturing. He has held several other Director positions at Sandia National
Laboratories. As Director of National Industrial Alliances, he was responsible for
formulating alliances between Sandia and industry consortia for enhancing the economy and
the public missions of the laboratories; as Director of Corporate Communications, he was
responsible for managing communications during the transition from management by AT&T
to management by Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin); and as Director of Pulsed Power
Sciences, he was responsible for the areas of pulsed power research and development,
inertial confinement fusion, nuclear weapons effects simulation, and directed energy
weapons research and development for the Strategic Defense Initiative. He is a Fellow of
the American Physical Society and Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers. In 1991 he received the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Award
for Physics.
Philmer Bluehouse
Philmer Bluehouse is a member of the Dineh Nation. He is of the clan Manygoats (Red House
of the Tewa) and is born for the clan One who Walks Around You (an original Dineh clan).
His maternal Grandfather is of the clan Cliffdwellers (Relatives of the Cliff Dwellers)
and his paternal grandfather is of the clan Bamboo or Reed (a clan of the Hopi people.)
Mr. Bluehouse is currently apprenticing to become a practitioner in the traditional
Blessing Way and the Flint Protection Way of the Dineh. Currently the Peacemaker
Liaison/Writer for the Judicial Branch of the Navajo Nation, employed to form, design and
implement a program to utilize the Dineh Traditional Law on the Navajo Nation, he is the
former Coordinator of the Judicial Branch of the Navajo Nation’s Peacemaker Division.
He formed, designed and implemented the Peacemaking Process using the Dineh Creation and
Journey Narratives. He consults in the development and implementation of Peacemaking
Systems and Knowledge on Tradition and Culture, and owns the "BLUEHOUSE Peacemaking
Institute," a non-profit entity. He is a former director of the Navajo Division of
Public Safety, and a former Federal Law Enforcement Agent and Navajo Tribal Law
Enforcement Officer-Investigator. He has taught in the Navajo Police Academy, and is an
Adjunct Professor at the Northern Arizona University at Flagstaff, Arizona.
