THE RABBI SIDNEY H. BROOKS LECTURE

Guest Speaker: Ran Kuttner, Ph.D.

Ran Kuttner, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution at the Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
Creighton University School of Law
Ph.D., Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Ran Kuttner is an Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution at the Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, Creighton University School of Law. For the past three years, Ran has been a Visiting Researcher and an Associate at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, where, among other research projects, he helped redesign and teach the Harvard mediation course, a joint course for law and MBA students. He received his Ph.D from the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, where in the past he has co-taught a graduate-level mediation certification course. He also designed a mediation certification program in his Center for the Study of Mediation and Conflict Management (“Merhav”) in Israel, and has taught numerous mediation courses for Israeli educators, companies and general public. In his research and teaching, Ran examines philosophical aspects of mediation and aims to improve both the understanding and the practice of transformation of adversity into dialogue through mediation and other conflict management processes.

Brooks Lecture