Chris Merchant, Professor of Practice, Department of Public Administration, Maxwell School, wants to remind local community leaders who met her last spring at Minnowbrook that she teaches a course entitled "Managing Individual, Group and Systemic Conflict" which increases student's conflict competence in meeting design, management and facilitation skills. 

She is looking for clients (can be communities, towns, villages, etc.) who would be interested in receiving pro bono either her direct expertise in these areas (that some of her students could then observe) or the supervised expertise of a grad student trained in these areas. 

This is an opportunity for communities to take advantage of the services of a specialist in conflict management, negotiation, and facilitation.  She can be contacted at 315-443-3818 or at cmerchant@att.net to discuss potential projects.

We are excited to report that we have launched a new website this month.  It can be found at efc.syracusecoe.org

There are still a few areas that we intend to develop in the next few months but the larger framework is complete.  This is also an opportunity for all of you to give us input about what types of online resources we can develop that will be helpful to you.

We invite you to visit the site and send us comments!