School of Law
Conflict and Dispute Resolution
Graduate Director: Tim Hicks
Graduate Contact: Ellen Laing
Location: 330K
Website: http://conflict.uoregon.edu
Degrees Offered: M.S. and M.A.
Current # of Students: 15-25 cohort; 35 master's students
Program Emphasis: The Conflict and Dispute Resolution Master's degree program is structured to prepare a new generation of scholars, practitioners, and educators to rethink traditional approaches to conflict. Grounded in dispute resolution theory, the program combines broad interdisciplinary training and opportunities for individualized study and skills development. It equips its students with a mastery of skills and expanded perspectives in conflict resolution, from theoretical, practical, public policy, ethical and professional responsibility orientations. In addition, the conceptual knowledge and practical tools gained from this program will allow students to meet today's challenges with new answers and better questions.
Admission Requirements: Completed application, GRE, LSAT or GMAT score report, 3 letters of recommendation, personal statement, recent academic or professional writing sample, current CV. Note the we do not have absolute cut-off scores for the GRE, LSAT or GMAT. Rather we look at the entire application package and make our admissions decisions based on the whole picture. As part of the application process, we require a phone or in-person interview.
Minimum TOEFL: Toefl 575
Fall Admissions: 27 master's students
# of GTFs: N/A
From the program's website:
Our program is structured to provide you with the firm foundation during your first year from which you can then specialize during your second year, whether you want to help deal with the social consequences of climate change or work with other environmental and public policy issues, work in the international arena, in the corporate or non-profit sectors, in the community setting, in peace and reconciliation contexts, with interpersonal and family-based conflicts, within the justice system, or in some other area of the conflict resolution field.
Where would I get three letters of recommendation when I have been out of college for...7 years and I work for myself, so I don't have a boss who can write a professional recommendation? Ideas?
I did hear back from the program and my LSAT scores are still good for my application. I have to double check and make sure they will still be good if I apply for next year too, assuming I apply in the fall before my score hits the 6 year mark in December. They said the program is just down the wait-list candidates so if I got in, that's all I would be offered, so basically, that would be a waste of stress and effort because a wait-list seat is no seat at all. Better to apply next year, and early, if I were to do this. Do I really want to do this? Am I interested in this? ...Definitely more so than anything else I can find, and I don't have any other ideas... so...? Is that how one comes to make a decision like this? Because there's nothing else? The program does make ALOT of sense with my personality, background and interests. It is very much in the right direction, and I find myself looking for similar programs at other schools, but it's just too unique. The next closest thing would be a cross between Social Work, Counseling and Criminal Justice- and Law... which is funny because those are all subjects I've considered pursuing higher education in. (Except counseling... although that is the ONE subject I have been told more times than I can count [prior to all my issues] that I should do, but I'm not interested. My mom has an MS in Counseling... yelch.)
What are you thinking?
Is Oregon for me?
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