Professor of Conflict Management
Department of Political Science and International Affairs
Kennesaw State University
Timothy Hedeen is a Professor
of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University. He provides mediation
services through court and private programs, delivers trainings in the areas of
conflict resolution and communication, facilitates group and public policy
decision making and planning, and conducts research and evaluation on dispute
resolution and justice policy.
He serves on the editorial
boards of Conflict Resolution Quarterly
and Family Court Review, as
associates liaison to the Section Council of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution,
and is a past chair of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Community Mediation. He is a
senior consultant to the Consortium for Appropriate Dispute
Resolution in Special Education.
He earned his doctorate
(awarded with distinction) from Syracuse University's Maxwell School of
Citizenship and Public Affairs, where he was a graduate affiliate of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts and
a student in the interdisciplinary Social Science program.
Scholarship
Dr. Hedeen has published articles related to coercion in mediation in Justice
System Journal (2005), the evolution of community mediation in Conflict
Resolution Quarterly (2004), the institutionalization of community mediation in Mediation
Quarterly (2000) and Penn State Law Review (2003). He and Dr.
Patrick Coy of Kent State have developed a stage model of co-optation of social movements,
published in The Sociological Quarterly (2005), and explored issues of capacity to participate in mediation in Mediation
Quarterly (1998). With Lisa Bingham, Susan Raines, and Lisa Marie Napoli,
he published "Mediation in Employment and Creeping Legalism: Implications
for Dispute System Design" in the Journal of Dispute Resolution
(2010).
He has written on teaching
and training in Conflict Resolution Quarterly (2005) and Teaching
Sociology (2003) and on the reform of family law education in law schools
in Family Court Review (2006). Along with colleagues Susan Raines and
Ansley Barton he has written on the preparation of mediators for court contexts
in Family Court Review (2010) and prepared a literature review of adult
education principles relate dto mediation training in Conflict Resolution
Quarterly (2010). He served as guest editor alongside Linda Baron of a
symposium on community dispute resolution and collaborative governance in Review
of Policy Research (2006) and proposed conflict practices for leaders in
KSU's Journal of Ethics in Leadership (2006). His published interview
with Ron Kelly, who offers mediation services at the annual Burning Man festival,
appeared in Conflict Resolution Quarterly (2009) and is posted at Mediate.com.
He served as associate
editor of Social Conflicts and Collective Identities (Rowman and
Littlefield, 2000) and wrote the epilogue to Workplace Dispute Resolution
(Michigan State University Press, 1997). He has prepared reference manuals Encouraging Meaningful Parent Educator
Collaboration: A Review of Recent Literature (2011) and Using Participant Feedback to Evaluate and
Improve Quality in Mediation (2002) and authored chapters
for professional references including the American Bar Association's State of Criminal Justice 2011 (2011), ADR
Handbook for Judges (2004) and the Minnesota State Bar Association's ADR
Deskbook (1998). His commissioned evaluation and assessment efforts include
analyses of the US Postal Service's REDRESS program (2003), the empirical
literature on community dispute resolution (2006), the mediation training
guidelines for Florida's state courts (2007), and long-range planning for an
Atlanta-area court ADR program (2009).
Memberships, service
Dr. Hedeen is an active member of the American Bar Association Section of
Dispute Resolution, the Association for Conflict Resolution, the National
Association for Community Mediation, the American Sociological Association, the
Peace and Justice Studies Association, and the American Association of
University Professors.
He serves as faculty in the
Master of Science in Conflict Management and the International Conflict Management doctoral programs, and
as coordinator of the undergraduate certificate in Alternative
Dispute Resolution.
Hedeen was honored to
receive KSU’s 2010 Distinguished Professional Service Award in recognition to
his service to the the campus, the broader community, and the field of dispute
resolution.
Contact information
Please contact me via email
or phone (770-423-6879) for further information or assistance.
Dr. Timothy Hedeen
Kennesaw State University
1000 Chastain Road, #2205
Kennesaw, GA 30144-5591
Last
updated 23Aug12