The Scheinman Institute offers students a number of ways to learn about the field of conflict resolution by combining education, real-world skills, innovative learning experiences, and networking with professionals. See how we do it.
Credit programs
2-day student mediator training the Thursday and Friday prior to the semester starting in both the Fall and Spring. This workshop is free to students, focusing primarily on attracting ILR undergraduates and graduate students, law students, and business school students. This training provides students with an opportunity to learn more about mediation in multiple settings, including informal and formal mediation in campus, community, and workplace settings
Partnering with the Office of the Judicial Administrator, the Campus Mediation Program provides students with the training and problem-solving skills to take a lead role in mediating campus disputes.
The Asian Labor Arbitration Project at Cornell University is a multidisciplinary initiative providing education, training, and consulting services concerning workplace dispute resolution in eastern Asia. Its scope includes internal workplace conflict systems, facilitation, mediation and arbitration of workplace disputes.
The Project has conducted research and provided technical assistance to government agencies and organizations in industrializing countries (China, Vietnam and Cambodia) and industrialized countries (Korea, Japan, Malaysia, and the Philippines). The focus of research and technical assistance has included the attributes, structural fairness, and outcomes of labor arbitration.Click here for additional information.
Degrees
You can earn your degree with a concentration in dispute resolution. Learn more about each of the degrees: MILR, MS/PhD, MPS.
Student Activities
Meets regularly to offer graduate and undergraduate students exposure to outside experts working in a variety of environments. Students attend conferences, interact with professional mediators, and discuss a variety of opportunities that they find most valuable
Internships, Fellowships and Opportunities
The Conflict Resolution Internship Program
The Conflict Resolution Internship Program provides students with real-world experience internationally and in the U.S.. There’s an annual six-week trip to Asia, working with the government and companies in Vietnam or China; and labor relations internships with state agencies, and with the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., and in Chicago.
Credit Internship Fellowship
Working together with Brigid Beachler, Managing Director of the Office of Off-Campus Credit Programs, the Scheinman Institute has created a new fellowship designed to support students who have accepted unpaid internships in areas related to labor relations and conflict resolution. This extends the support that the Scheinman Institute provides for summer internships in these fields.
Summer Fellowship Program
Summer Research Fellows will have the opportunity to engage in independent research under faculty members' guidance or serve as research assistants for faculty members during the summer.