Negotiation & Conflict Resolution was the second course that came at a most timely duration of my professional career.  I had taken negotiation coursework before at Honeywell International, but never like this.  I welcomed the enhanced view of both negotiation and conflict resolution this course provided.

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This course enhanced my understanding of the nature of conflict and introduced really for the first time for me the formal learnings of violence and nonviolence. 

 

I think I always understood those in my own terms, from having life experiences, and being one of six siblings.  This was really the first formal training I had ever had on those terms and practices.  I was a young man in Arizona when the Morenci Copper strikes were taking place.  It was the early 80’s and I was familiar with the strike, but in this course, we had the opportunity to learn it deeply by reading “Copper Crucible:  How the Arizona miners strike of 1983 recast labor management relations in America” by J. Rosenblum (1998). 

 

Our group project was to map out the dynamics of the strike using Prezi, which is my artifact below.  This course and this book were one of the most engaging of the ORGL program as at the time, I was employed at a Spokane company with a large labor union workforce.  It provided my insight to the dynamics that our company faced on a day-to-day basis.

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The representative artifact for ORGL 520 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution is our Team A Group Conflict Map on the Arizona / Morenci Copper Strike of the early 80's.