S.J. Quinney College of Law

News / Articles:

• If you want to move conflict in a productive direction, start with an assessment
• 2025 EDR blog year in review
• Utah Law faculty updates: October 2025
• Let’s be clear about boundaries
• Stegner Center Faculty Updates
• What are we co-creating?
• How to make your meetings count
• Devising strategies for complex public policy challenges: Lessons learned from the Visitation on Utah’s Public Lands workshop
• What is a facilitator and what do they do?
• How to find a Big-F facilitator
• Danya’s survival guide for these “interesting times”
• How to share the gift of centering and self-regulation (including with potentially skeptical audiences)
• Cultivating a culture of dialogue rather than debate
• Daring to dialogue: Stories of “being the change”
• On conflict, collaboration, and leadership: An interview with EDR Program Director Danya Rumore
• Lessons learned from the probletunity of Madame C: Outer and inner work
• A need—and an opportunity—for leadership
• The power of collaborative tinkering and creative problem solving
• Cultivating a culture of environmental and natural resources collaboration in Utah
• Wisdom from the experts: Collaboration and alternative dispute resolution in the West
• Collaborating on air quality: From pollution to solution
• Less but better: An investment in avoiding unnecessary conflict
• Using serious games to help communities make progress on serious problems
• Ready or not: Enhancing the readiness of communities to prepare for and manage climate-related risks
• Water diplomacy… in the West?
• Utah faculty updates: May 2025
• Understanding and identifying different kinds of interests
• Utah Law faculty updates: June 2025
• Utah Law faculty updates: July 2025
• Utah faculty updates: August 2024
• The power of “the BOP” when dealing with conflict
• Environmental Dispute Resolution Program Update
• The power of “Yes and…”
• When dealing with conflict, don’t just be nice—be kind and firm
• To flourish, we need to teach people how to make conflict productive
• Utah Law faculty updates: July 2024
• Extra dialogue required: Get to know EDR Director Danya Rumore
• The problem with compromise
• Research Professor Danya Rumore quoted in The Atlantic about conflict resolution research and new Utah DEI law
• To overcome divisiveness, we need to focus on interests (and not positions)
• Stegner Center Faculty Updates Fall 2024
• Utah Law faculty updates: October 2024
• We need to talk about dysregulation
• Emotions are data when dealing with conflict
• What lessons are you learning from Madame C?
• At the Environmental Dispute Resolution program, thorny issues lead to “elegant solutions”
• Utah Law faculty updates: December 2024
• Don’t give up your power when dealing with conflict
• Communication: A core conflict competency
• Destructive conflict tendencies vs. productive conflict choices
• What is conflict competence and what are the core conflict competencies?
• Courage: An overarching skill for making conflict productive
• Compassion: A prerequisite for calm, curiosity, and creativity when dealing with conflict
• Curiosity is a superpower when dealing with conflict
• The power of calm when dealing with conflict
• Why we tend to see conflict as a problem—and why it matters
• The problem with conflict is that we see conflict as a problem
• The future of the EDR program: Extra (effective) dialogue required
• Conflict just is. Let’s make it productive!
• Commitment: A core conflict competency
• How to focus on what really matters in conflict
• Want to make conflict productive? Focus on what really matters
• To make conflict productive, focus on co-creating mutual gains outcomes
• EDR Director Danya Rumore interviewed on BYUradio’s Top of Mind about zoom towns
• Researcher Danya Rumore discusses the rise of “Zoom towns”