Thursday, June 9th
8 a.m PST| 11 a.m EST
Offered by Will Work For Food and moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com)
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Our special guest this week, Mr. Grande Lum, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Menlo College, will present on:
America's Peacemakers: DOJ's Community Relations Service and Civil Rights
America's Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights tells the behind-the-scenes story of a small federal agency that made a big difference in civil rights conflicts over the last half century.
In this second edition of Resolving Racial Conflict: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights, 1964–1989, Grande Lum continues Bertram Levine’s excellent scholarship, expanding the narrative to consider the history of the Community Relations Service (CRS) of the U.S. Department of Justice over the course of the last three decades.
In this era of heightened awareness of structural racism, the book is also an accounting of how a courageous arm of government accompanied and advocated for racial and structural justice through community engagement and the de-escalation of disputes. https://www.americaspeacemakers.org/
Grande Lum is the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Menlo College in Atherton, California. Prior to joining Menlo, he was Director of the Divided Community Project (DCP) at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Previously, Grande was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate in 2012 as the Director of the Community Relations Service (CRS), an agency within the Department of Justice. Before joining CRS, Grande Lum was a clinical professor at the University of California Hastings School of the Law, where he directed the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution. His latest book is America’s Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights (University of Missouri, November 2020. Co-authored with Bertram Levine) which won the 2020 International Institute for Conflict Resolution and Resolution Outstanding Book Award. He is also the author of The Negotiation Fieldbook (McGraw-Hill 2nd Edition, 2010); Tear Down the Wall: Be Your Own Mediator in Conflict (Optimality, 2013). He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from UC Berkeley and a law degree from Harvard.