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| Transformative Dispute Resolution | |||||
| This organization started as a dream in response to the Red Lake Minnesota reservation shootings. Our goal is to support the positive evolution of interactions between participants whom are in conflict. Our focus is serving segments of the population most vulnerable to cycles of violent conflict-whether this is intergenerational or inter-spousal. Transformative Dispute Resolution has a two-fold purpose clause. The first dimension is our mediation services charged on a sliding scale, with those individuals that fit the government definition of under the poverty level being served pro bono. We perceive this service as qualifying the non-profit, Transformative Dispute Resolution, as a charitable organization. The second dimension of our purpose clause,is our intention of lecturing at educational facilities presenting an alternative to violence as a response to conflict. Rather, the transformative perspective, which posits that conflict is an opportunity for a positive evolution of interactions between individuals, will be presented. Following lectures, educational facilities will be given the option to allow transformative conflict workshops where students can practice dispute resolution as mediators and participants. This in our opinion, qualifies this non-profit as a organization with a educational purpose. Our organization will make a conscious effort to reach out to the Native American, African American and lower income populations. The style of mediation this organization embraces, termed 'transformative' by Bush and Folger in their seminal work, The Promise of Mediation, is a detailed theory and methodology of catalyzing improved relationships. In addition to creating social value, studies mentioned in this book repeatedly suggest less recivitism and thus less economic cost to multiple branches of goverment most obviously including, but not limited to, the judicial, state and local police. If and when the dissolution of this non-profit occurs, all garnered assets must be exclusively used for tax exempt purposes as currently defined by the state of Minnesota here. |
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