A faculty member and program head at Brenau University is the new president of the International Academy of Dispute Resolution (INADR).
Dr. Ken Frank is a Professor of Conflict Resolution and Legal Studies at Brenau and the Director of the Conflict Resolution and Legal Studies program at Brenau.
INADR was founded in 2002 and is the first organization that sponsored mediation tournaments where students were the mediators in an international competition. Since that time, INADR tournaments have been hosted in more than sixteen countries and have had participants and representatives from over fifty countries.
The goal of INADR has been to create an awareness of mediation and other forms of dispute resolution, according to its website. The Academy believes that there is a better way to resolve differences than the adversarial system, “which implies that differences can be resolved only through continued conflict.” Former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren E. Burger declared that our legal system “has become too costly, too painful, too destructive, too inefficient for a truly civilized people.”
“INADR is dedicated to the principle that change comes through education,” the website further declares. “The Academy believes that peace and reconciliation should be the goals of mediation. Further, it believes that preserving and enhancing relationships is at the core of its work. INADR is educating the next generation of leaders to create a more peaceful and cooperative world.”