Moving Toward a Just Peace: The US Mediation Continuum

Professor Jan Marie Fritz (University of Cincinnati) specializes in research on  Conflict Analysis and Intervention (particularly mediation, facilitation and coaching). She has been a mediator and facilitator for more than twenty years and has been a mediator of special education cases for the Kentucky Department of Education since 2006. Her talk at CBS will cover the various kinds of mediation in the United States with an emphasis on developments in business, education and the courts.                    
  
Jan Marie Fritz, a Certified Clinical Sociologist (C.C.S.), is a professor in the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati and a senior research scholar with the Centre for Sociological Research at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa). Professor Fritz is president (2010-2014) of the clinical sociology division of the International Sociological Association (an NGO based in Madrid, Spain) and also a member of the International Sociological Association's executive board. She is the organization's main representative to the United Nations in New York City.
 
Professor Fritz was awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Human Rights and International Studies in 2011 for work at the Human Rights Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. She also was awarded a 2011 grant from the American Scandinavian Foundation to support work in Sweden and Norway about their revised/updated national action plans for women, peace and security.