Danya Rumore
Director, Environmental Dispute Resolution Program
Professor of Law (Research)
Research Profile Phone: 801/587-1453
Email: danya.rumore@law.utah.edu
Areas of Expertise:
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”