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Danya Rumore

Director, Environmental Dispute Resolution Program

Professor (Research)

Research Profile Phone: 801-587-1453
Email: danya.rumore@law.utah.edu
Areas of Expertise:

News / Articles:


  • My survival guide for these “interesting times”

  • Wisdom from the experts: Collaboration and alternative dispute resolution in the West

  • Cultivating a culture of dialogue rather than debate

  • Water diplomacy… in the West?

  • Collaborating on air quality: From pollution to solution

  • Ready or not: Enhancing the readiness of communities to prepare for and manage climate-related risks

  • What is a facilitator and what do they do?

  • The power of collaborative tinkering and creative problem solving

  • Less but better: An investment in avoiding unnecessary conflict

  • Utah faculty updates: May 2025

  • Utah Law faculty updates: June 2025

  • Devising strategies for complex public policy challenges: Lessons learned from the Visitation on Utah’s Public Lands workshop

  • Using serious games to help communities make progress on serious problems

  • How to share the gift of centering and self-regulation (including with potentially skeptical audiences)

  • Lessons learned from the probletunity of Madame C: Outer and inner work

  • A need—and an opportunity—for leadership

  • Daring to dialogue: Stories of “being the change”

  • How to find a Big-F facilitator

  • Cultivating a culture of environmental and natural resources collaboration in Utah

  • On conflict, collaboration, and leadership: An interview with EDR Program Director Danya Rumore

  • Understanding and identifying different kinds of interests

  • 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”