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Acknowledgements

This guide is a project of the Divided Community Project (DCP), housed at The Ohio State University (OSU) Moritz College of Law. This project was supported in 2023-24 in part by federal award number 15JCOPS-23-GK-03990-PPSE awarded to OSU by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office). DCP is grateful for the sustained institutional support from the College of Law, including Dean Kent Barnett. Additional support was provided by OSU’s Mershon Center for International Security Studies, and the JAMS (formerly Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services) Foundation, and the National Civic League.

This guide builds upon the first and second editions of the DCP publication: Planning in Advance of Community Unrest (2020 and 2015). DCP is grateful to all who have contributed to these prior projects (a complete list is available on pages 5 and 6 of the 2020 edition). Moreover, DCP is grateful for Daphne Felten-Green’s work as the lead writer of early drafts of this guide, and for convening a working group to provide preliminary input on the direction of this guide.  In addition, DCP is grateful for work of the following law student research assistants at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law supported this project Nour El Ghorayeb (MSL, 2024), Amina Mohamed (JD, 2024), Nico Orengo (JD, 2025), Rachel Peterson (JD, 2025), Sarvani Vemuri (JD, 2025), and Temple Wallen (JD class of 2026).

DCP Steering Committee | A great deal of input on this publication and prior publications has come from members of the Project’s Steering Committee, which includes:

  • Chair | Andrew Thomas, Mediator in community conflicts and former Community Relations and former Neighborhood Engagement Director, City of Sanford, FL
  • Executive Director | Carl Smallwood, Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Columbus, Ohio; Retired Partner, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP; Past president, Columbus Bar Association and National Conference of Bar Presidents
  • Director | William Froehlich, Lecturer and Langdon Fellow in Dispute Resolution at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
  • Fellow [former] | Benjamin Wilson, Staff Attorney and Fellow at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
  • Members
    • Thomas Battles, former Southeast Regional Director, U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service
    • Gery Birnberg, mediator and arbitrator, JAMS
    • RaShall Brackney, Distinguished Full Visiting Professor of Practice at George Mason University, former Chief of Police for Charlottesville, VA, and former Chief of Police, George Washington University
    • Chris Carlson, public policy mediator and former Chief Advisor, Policy Consensus Initiative
    • Susan Carpenter, complex public dispute policy mediator, trainer and co-author of Mediating Public Disputes
    • Sarah Cole, Professor of Law and Moritz Chair in Alternative Dispute Resolution at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
    • Daphne Felten-Green, Founder, DSFG Solutions LLC, former Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service
    • Dierdre Gallagher, multiparty mediator, JAMS
    • Chris Kwok, mediator, arbitrator, and hearing officer, JAMS
    • Valerie Lemmie, Senior Advisor for State and Local Government, Charles F. Kettering Foundation; former City Manager, Petersburg, VA, and Dayton and Cincinnati, OH
    • Michael Lewis, mediator and arbitrator with JAMS, Washington, D.C. Resolution Center
    • Justin Lock, Director, Not in Our Town; former Acting Director of the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service
    • Grande Lum, Director of the Martin Daniel Gould Center for Conflict Resolution at Stanford Law School and former Director of the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service
    • Craig McEwen, Professor Emeritus, Bowdoin College, and social scientist evaluating dispute resolution
    • Becky Monroe, Civil Rights Attorney with American Pride Rises, former Counsel and Interim Director of the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service
    • Lori Pampilo-Harris, Public Policy and Systems Change Strategist, Wayfinders Consulting; former advisor to Mayor Buddy Dyer, City of Orlando, FL
    • Nancy Rogers, Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, and former Ohio Attorney General
    • Sarah Rubin, Outreach and Engagement Coordinator at the California Department of Conservation
    • Amy Schmitz, John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
    • Kyle Strickland, Director of Strategic Engagement at Ohio Progressive Collaborative
    • Josh Stulberg, Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, and mediator in community conflicts
    • Ron Wakabayashi, former Western Regional Director, U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service, former Executive Director of Japanese American Citizens League

In addition to many listed above, the following individuals provide services for DCP’s cooperative agreement:

  • Beverly Calendar-Anderson, fmr. Director, Community and Family Resources Department, Bloomington, IN
  • Chet Epperson, fmr. Police Chief, Rockford, IL, President, Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, Inc.
  • Shawn Hill, Phd candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara, fmr. Commander, Santa Barbara Police

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