The Divided Community Project (DCP) is housed within the Moritz College of Law’s USNWR #1-ranked Program on Dispute Resolution. The project was developed by persons and institutions committed to the belief that dispute resolution practitioners, policymakers and scholars can make a tangible, constructive contribution to helping leaders and citizens in communities and on college campuses seared by tensions, unrest, and civil discord to strengthen and expand their capacity and resiliency to meet these challenges.  

DCP’s initial focus was to transform the insights and lessons of dispute resolution interveners into tangible principles, guidelines and suggestions that local public officials and other community leaders could immediately deploy to strengthen their broad-based capacity to meet these challenges. DCP has developed similar, but distinct, guidance and tools for college and university leaders. DCP’s resources describe specific community engagement and conflict resolution strategies that these leaders can use to identify and address community division and its underlying causes. 

Partners and Supporters

We are grateful for our partners and supporters–including the Moritz College of Law–who have supported the Divided Community Project. 

• JAMS Foundation
• AAA-ICDR Foundation
• The Kettering Foundation
• Mershon Center for International Security Studies
• Mellon Foundation 
• The Ohio State Bar Foundation 
• The Ohio State University Emeritus Academy
• The Jacques M. Littlefield Foundation 

Media

The executive director and director are available to serve as experts for the media. To arrange an interview, please contact moritzcommunications@osu.edu.

Topic areas include:

• Active community and campus unrest situations
• Planning in advance of community and campus unrest
• Role of alternative dispute resolution in addressing community and community unrest and in civic participation.