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Danya Rumore

Director, Environmental Dispute Resolution Program

Professor (Research)

Full Profile Phone: 801-587-1453
Email: danya.rumore@law.utah.edu
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News / Articles:


  • What is a facilitator and what do they do?

  • 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

  • EDRP Director Danya Rumore interviewed on BYUradio’s Top of Mind about zoom towns

  • Researcher Danya Rumore discusses the rise of “Zoom towns”