Divided Community Project
Divided Community Project
The Divided Community Project provides dispute resolution and systems-design expertise to help state, local, community, and university leaders enhance community resiliency and prepare for and respond to events that polarize their communities.
As part of the Program on Dispute Resolution, the Divided Community Project (DCP) and helps leaders and citizens in communities seared by tensions, unrest, and civil discord to strengthen and expand their capacity and resiliency meet these challenges. DCP offers tools, resources, classes, office hours and direct assistance through several initiatives developed by dispute resolution practitioners, policymakers, and scholars committed to helping community and university leaders identify and address community division and its underlying causes.
Winner of the American Bar Association’s Cooley Lawyer as a Problem Solver Award, DCP is housed at the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University and is part of the U.S. News and World Report #1-ranked Program on Dispute Resolution. The project helps strengthen local capacity to transform division into collaboration and progress.
Programs and Initiatives
Speaking Out to Strengthen the Guardrails of Democracy
The Bridge Initiative at Moritz
Symbols and Public Spaces Amid Division
Leading a Divided Community During Times of Conflict
Leading a Divided Campus: Ideas and Illustrations
“We live in extraordinary times: they are promising, yet contentious. Our Virtual Toolkit and helpful resources are designed to assist those that seek to help their communities or universities to bridge differences.”
Resources for Leaders
The Divided Community Project’s Virtual Toolkit includes specific community engagement and conflict resolution strategies that local leaders and others can use to identify and address community division and its underlying causes.
Divided Community Project Leadership
