E. Franklin Dukes

E. Franklin Dukes
Adjunct Professor and Director of the environmental conflict resolution initiative

Ph.D, Conflict Analysis and Resolution,1992, George Mason University
M.S., Conflict Management, 1988, George Mason University
B.A., Music, 1975, University of Virginia

Biography

 

Frank Dukes has been affiliated with George Mason's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and Department of Environmental Science and Policy since fall of 2008. I have also been privileged to work for the Institute for Environmental Negotiation (IEN) since 1990, and as Director since 2000. As a mediator and facilitator, I seek ways to address public conflict and complex public problems that strengthen communities rather than tear them apart. I’ve worked on projects involving environment and land use, community development, education, and health. Much of my recent work has involved helping communities determine how to make use of controversial contaminated sites. I have also facilitated community conversations on topics ranging from faith and homosexuality to reparations for slavery, and assisted the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission with community dialogue.

Classes I have taught include environmental conflict resolution, collaborative planning, consensus building, and public and community involvement. Following Sept. 11, 2001 I initiated two University Seminars, one examining violence and non-violence for political change, and the second, “Righting Unrightable Wrongs,” examining reparations and restorative justice. A one-credit mediation class is used by University Mediation Services as the initial training for student mediators.

I also co-founded the Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute, a nine-month program that brings together representatives from industry, non-governmental organizations, public agencies, and communities to develop collaborative leadership around environmental issues



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Awards and Honors
John T Casteen III Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Leadership Award
The John T. Casteen, III Diversity - Equity - Inclusion Leadership Award honors a member of the University of Virginia community who best demonstrates a dedication to leadership and the ability to...
Sharon M. Pickett Award
E. Franklin Dukes was awarded the Sharon M. Pickett Award at the annual Association for Conflict Resolution conference. The award is presented each year to a person who has either advanced the...
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 Explores best practices for managing, resolving, and transforming environmental conflict using environmental conflict resolution (ECR)...
Cross-Listed with EVPP 682 This course explores the nature and characteristics of...
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September 02, 2014
Residents of the Appalachian coalfields share a history and heritage, deep connections to the land, and pride in their own resilience. These same residents are also profoundly divided over the practice of mountaintop mining—that is, the removal and disposal...
Category: Book
Winter 2005
The Natural Resources Leadership Institute (NRLI), a leadership development program for capacity building in environmental decision making, cultivates a cadre of leaders who address environmental problems collaboratively and creatively. Describing our theory of...
Category: Journal Article
Fall 2001
Category: Journal Article
June 2001
The 80-page guide, Collaboration: A Guide for Environmental Advocates, was written by IEN's Frank Dukes and Karen Firehock and was funded by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The guide was conceived in response to the rapidly expanding use...
Category: Book
2000
A unique book on conflict resolution that reveals how to establish and maintain shared expectations and commitments throughout the process and help the parties involved move above and beyond common ground.
Category: Book
1996
This work aims to move beyond the orthodox remedies of right and left to explain how the field of public conflict resolution offers a way to cut through the impasse in public policy-making. Drawing on conflict resolution experience and recent democratic theory...
Category: Book
January 01, 1994
What is "the news" about? International conflicts and communal wars. Religious upheavals and racial disorders. Political debates and family disputes. Arrests, shootouts, strikes, layoffs, feuds, fistfights...and lawsuits (always lawsuits). From page one...
Category: Papers & Reports
December 25, 1992
This dissertation examines the character and influence of the emerging field of public conflict resolution. The focus of the research is this question: What are the implications to American society of the evolving practice of public conflict...
Category: Doctoral Dissertation
1990
Conflict: Practices in Management, Settlement, and Resolution will be of interest to those who seek to understand which approach to conflict management is best suited to which kind of conflict. This work is divided into twenty-two chapters in five parts, With an...
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March 16, 2016
Deborah McDowell has steered the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and
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June 01, 2009
In partnership with the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy (ESP), ICAR has established a 15-credit
Category: Newsletter Article

May 10, 2007
Say what you will about the $6,300 fee, the City Market is important enough to Roanoke to warrant hiring an outside
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December 22, 1994
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Join Doctoral Student:Joseph Obeng-Baahas he defends his proposed Doctoral Disseration entitled
August 29, 2011
Frank Dukes has been affiliated with George Mason's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and Department of Environmental Science and Policy since fall of 2008. He have also been privileged to work for the Institute for Environmental Negotiation (IEN) since 1990, and as Director since 2000
April 12, 2011
Frank Dukes joined seven other representatives from the University of Virginia’s UCARE (University & Community Action for Racial Equity) project at the conference "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" from February 3-6. The conference was hosted by Emory
February 03, 2011
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