1988
Dr. Dorothy Nelson
Honorable Judge
Dorothy Nelson is a federal judge on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. “Peaceful Conflict Resolution, an Exciting Development" is the title of her talk. Speaks first of the world’s worst industrial accident in Bopal, India and how the people of the world are hungering for “a peaceful non-adversarial way, if you will, to resolve conflict.” In India it takes 20 years to get to court in a civil lawsuit. She goes on to discuss consultation and its importance in resolving issues private and public. Mediation, adjudication, the use of an ombudsman, are other forms of conflict resolution discussed by Judge Nelson. Also reviewed are approaches to justice in various countries in Europe and Africa.