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ANN R. GOSLINE

Awards:

  • 2009 EPA Environmental Merit Award (Gosline & Reitman) for facilitation of Long Creek Watershed Management Plan;
  • Recipient of the New England Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution Pioneer Award
  • Recipient of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution Distinguished Service Award
  • Recipient of the American Arbitration Association Howard Gamser Award
  • Recipient of the Maine Association of Dispute Resolution Professionals "Dispute Resolver of the Year" Award

Published Articles and Treatises:

“Public Collaboration in Maine: When and Why it Works,” by Diane Kenty, Ann Gosline and Jonathan Reitman, Maine Policy Review, Volume 19, Number 2, January, 2011.

Gosline, et al, "Designing Integrated Conflict Management Systems: Guidelines for practitioners and decision makers in organizations", Cornell University Press 2001

Co-Author, Committee Chair, SPIDR's "Guidelines for Voluntary Mediation Programs Instituted by Agencies Charged with Enforcing Workplace Rights," SPIDR, Jan. 1998

Co-General Editor, Labor and Employment Arbitration, Matthew Bender, 1988. Second Edition, 1997

With Reitman and Ainsworth, "Retaining Clients in a Changing Environment," Maine Lawyers Review, September 1995

With Reitman, "Mediation of Civil Rights and Employment Disputes," Maine Lawyers Review, September 1994

With Reitman, "Regulatory Negotiation: Transportation Planning Model for the Future," Consensus, Harvard Law School Disputes Program, April 1994



JONATHAN W. REITMAN

Awards:

  • Recipient of the 2010 “Peacemaker of the Year” Award, Greater Brunswick Peaceworks;
  • 2009 Down East Environmental Award for mediation of Sears Island conflict;
  • 2009 EPA Environmental Merit Award (Gosline & Reitman) for facilitation of Long Creek Watershed Management Plan;
  • Recipient of the 2007 “Pioneer Award” from the New England Association for Conflict Resolution, for “significant contributions” to the field

Published Articles:

“Public Collaboration in Maine: When and Why it Works,” by Diane Kenty, Ann Gosline and Jonathn Reitman,Maine Policy Review, Volume 19, Number 2, January, 2011.

“Thinking in Terms of We,” The Times Record, Volume 44, Number 132, August 10, 2010.

“Conflict Resolution as a Career,” The Times Record, Volume 44, Number 129, August 5, 2010

“ADR: Bumps in the Road of Maine’s New Rule of Evidence 514,” Maine Lawyers Review, Volume 16, Number 11, December 11, 2008.

“It Takes a Mediator, a Team and an Entire Community,” NE-ACR News, Volume 16 #3, June 2008

“Mediators as Damage Control Experts,” Mediate.com weekly newsletter, May 8, 2008, No. 221

“Corporators Accept Mediation Agreement,” Falmouth Forecaster, Mid-Coast Edition, Vol. 4, No. 13, March 28, 2008

“Mediator’s Fatigue: The Impact of Traumatic Words we Hear in Mediation,” NEACR Newsletter, Winter, 2007; Washington State Mediators’ Association newsletter, December, 2007.

“Teaching Peace in the Midst of War,” NEACR Newsletter, December, 2006

“Mainer Teaches Conflict Resolution in Israel,” Bangor Daily News, State, Section B, August 21, 2006.

“Teaching Peace in the Midst of Yet Another War,” The Times Record, Volume 40, Number 134, August 14, 2006.

“Does Israel Need a Program for Healing and Reconcilitation?,” online newsletter, and NEACR Newletter, November, 2005.

“One Key to Middle East Peace: How a Dispute Resolution System Could Handle Conflicts Arising from Dismantlement of Settlements in West Bank and Gaza,” www.mediate.com, online newsletter, June, 2004, and NEACR newsletter, June 2004.

“The Personal Qualities of the Mediator: Taking Time for Reflection and Renewal,” pp. 235-244, Bringing Peace into the Room: How the Personal Qualities of the Mediator Impact the Process of Conflict Resolution, Daniel Bowling and David Hoffman, editors, Jossey-Bass, 2003

“Terror on Bus No. 2” New England Chapter of Association for Conflict Resolution newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 6, September, 2003

"The Allagash: A Case Study of a Successful Mediation." http://mediate.com, online newsletter, June 2001

"What You Can Learn from Cancer," Coping magazine, Volume 17, Issue 2, March-April, 2003.

“The Spiritual Laws of Cancer,” Chadashot Ha’am, monthly bulletin of Congregation Bet Ha’am, September 2002, Portland, Maine

“Thank God I’m a Mediator,” Behaskama , journal of National Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Department of Justice, Tel Aviv, Israel, July, 2002

“Ten Principles to Aid the Quest for Peace in the Middle East,” Dispute Resolution Journal, Vol. 57, No. 1, February-April 2002

Guest column on Middle East conflict: “Eye on Washington,” Maine Sunday Telegram, Volume 114, Number 26, January 6, 2002

Book review: “The Mediation Field Guide” by Barbara Ashley Phillips. www.mediate.com Online newsletter, October 2001; NE Chapter, ACR Newsletter, November 2001

“ADR in Israel,” Proceedings of ACR International Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Sept. 2001

"Getting People to Work Together," Portland Press Herald, Volume 139, Number 213, February 22, 2001

"Is Coexistence Possible? Beyond ethnic cleansing in a war zone"Portland Press Herald, Volume 137, Number 251, April 9, 1999

"The Mother and the Soldier," online publication, www.spidr.org (February, 1999)

"IMTD in Bosnia: A Program Emerges", Peacebuilder, Volume 5, No. 4, Spring, 1998

"What Every Successful Bar Applicant Should Know About Alternative Dispute Resolution," The Bar Examiner, Volume 67, Number 1, February 1998

"Workers' Compensation: Is It Making the Grade?," Maine Policy Review, January 1997

"Ten Tips for Lawyers Who Want To Be Mediators," Maine Lawyers Review, June 1996
With Gosline and Ainsworth, "Retaining Clients in a Changing Environment," Maine Lawyers Review, September 1995

With Gosline, "Mediation of Civil Rights and Employment Disputes," Maine Lawyers Review, September 1994

With Gosline, "Regulatory Negotiation: Transportation Planning Model for the Future," Consensus, Harvard Law School Disputes Program, April 1994

"Divorce Mediation," Maine Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Newsletter, Spring 1992