USU Welcomes Environmental Dispute Resolution Program, Announces Fall Training Opportunities

LOGAN — Utah State University will welcome the Environmental Dispute Resolution Program to campus July 1, expanding opportunities for students and professionals seeking advanced training in collaboration, conflict resolution and public engagement related to environmental and public policy issues.

After 14 years at the University of Utah’s Wallace Stegner Center in the S.J. Quinney College of Law, the Environmental Dispute Resolution Program, commonly known as EDR, will join the USU College of Arts & Sciences as a partner of the Heravi Peace Institute.

“EDR is excited to join Utah State University and looks forward to continuing to expand its reach and impact,” said Danya Rumore, incoming associate professor of practice and director of the EDR program.

The EDR Program will bring capacity in environmental and community conflict resolution, facilitation, consensus building, stakeholder engagement and dispute resolution to the School of Social Sciences and the Heravi Peace Institute.

The program also brings with it several professional certificate courses designed to build collaboration and conflict resolution skills among practitioners, including the following:

• Collaboration Certificate Course, which is open to professionals working on community and environmental issues from all employer types; priority is given to applicants who work in the Mountain West. Applications for the course are due Friday, May 15, although late applications may be considered.

• Federal Collaboration Certificate Course, which is open to federal agency employees working on community and environmental issues. Applications for the course are accepted on a rolling basis starting May 15.

EDR’s certificate courses use a variety of approaches — lectures, case studies, simulations and peer-to-peer learning — to train participants in collaborative problem-solving and conflict resolution. Both seven-session online programs run from September through December and are administered in partnership with Utah State University Continuing Education.

To learn more, please visit the following website: https://artsci.usu.edu/social-sciences/edr.