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Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Office

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The Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Office regularly offers services utilizing Skype for Business and Zoom. While UT Austin employees are working remotely we will offer services exclusively online.

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At the Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Office we want to acknowledge the pain and suffering following the homicides of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and locally, the impact to our community arising out of the investigation into the death of Michael Ramos. We grieve the devastating impact of current, historical, and systemic racism and violence against people of color, and are aware that many faculty and staff are being impacted in complex and traumatic ways. Our staff is committed to the University’s values of inclusion and diversity and to continuing to do our own work to stand up against racism. If you are experiencing conflict with a supervisor or another employee, we welcome hearing from you and are ready to listen.

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The Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Office regularly offers services utilizing Zoom. As a precaution against Covid-19, CMDR services are currently offered exclusively online.

How we can help

Current staff have access to both formal and informal options. All other university members may request informal options.
Mediate departmental, workplace, and academic issues. Mediation is an informal, private, and voluntary process with outcomes and agreements created by the parties with the help of a neutral facilitator.
Listen impartially to concerns and help repair relationships.
Restorative Justice: Options for restorative processes that respond to harms, impacts and needs through community/team building circles, meaningful accountability dialogues and conferences, and reentry support circles following suspension, extended leave, etc.
Navigate bureaucratic systems and policies.
Specifically for non-managers: Resolve performance appraisal and corrective action disagreements.
Specifically for managers: Design clear performance plans and collaborative intervention prior to discipline.

Land Acknowledgement

CMDR would like to acknowledge that meetings at UT Austin on the Indigenous lands of Turtle Island, the ancestral name for what now is called North America. Moreover, CMDR would like to acknowledge the Alabama-Coushatta, Caddo, Carrizo/Comecrudo, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Kickapoo, Lipan Apache, Tonkawa and Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, and all the American Indian and Indigenous Peoples and communities who have been or have become a part of these lands and territories in Texas.

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/nais/land-acknowledgement/index.php