Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute
Institute Staff

ICRI staff is comprised of university professors and doctoral, graduate and undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds including law, public affairs, and environmental science. All staff members are dedicated to the appropriate expansion of ADR processes in their respective disciplines. The Institute’s affiliation with Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs, the third highest ranked public affairs school in the nation, provides access to world-class policy analysis resources and allows us to continue and contribute to SPEA’s distinctive record of success in creating effective solutions to real-world problems.

Lisa Bingham, Founding Director
Keller-Runden Professor of Public Service, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Lisa B. Bingham is Keller Runden Professor of Public Service and Director of the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, Indiana. A graduate of Smith College and the University of Connecticut School of Law, she practiced labor and employment law for ten years before joining the faculty of Indiana University in 1989 as a lecturer at the School of Law. In 1992, she joined the faculty of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Bingham co-founded the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute in 1997.  In 2002, she received the Association for Conflict Resolution’s Willoughby Abner Award for excellence in research on dispute resolution. A winner of several teaching awards and research awards, she has published over forty articles on mediation, arbitration, and dispute resolution. See more information about Professor Bingham, or a list of her publications.

Rosemary O'Leary, Founding Principal Investigator
Professor, Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Rosemary O'Leary, J.D., Ph.D., is professor of public administration and director of the Ph.D. program at the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.  An elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration, she was a senior Fulbright scholar conducting research on environmental policy in Malaysia.  Previously she was professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University, and co-founder of the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute.  She is the author of three books and more than seventy-five articles on environmental management, environmental policy, public management, dispute resolution, bureaucratic politics, and law and public policy.  She has won several national research awards, as well as teaching awards. Please click here to see a list of her publications.

Nan Stager, Assistant Director and Teaching Coordinator
Lecturer, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
In addition to her work with the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute, Nan Stager is a lecturer in the areas of mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and has twenty years experience as a mediator. She was the director of the Victim Offender Reconciliation Program in Monroe County, Indiana from 1983-1987, had a private mediation practice specializing in family and community disputes from 1987-1991, and currently is an ad-hoc mediator for the Indiana Education Employment Relations Board and the Medicare Beneficiary Protection Mediation Program. Stager teaches several undergraduate, graduate, and executive education ADR and ECR courses. She is certified as an assistant trainer in both civil and family mediation through the Indiana Commission for Continuing Legal Education and is a Certified Family Mediator by the Indiana Supreme Court.  She is also an approved mediation trainer by the United States Department of the Navy.  She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish and Master of Science degree in Adult Education, both from Indiana University.

Lisa-Marie Napoli, Service Coordinator
Associate Instructor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

Lisa-Marie Napoli has received her Ph.D. in Public Affairs in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. She is currently working as Executive Director of the Community Conflict Resolution Program, Inc. in Bloomington, Indiana and is the former Administrative Director of ICRI. She has published some of her research and presented at several professional and academic conferences such as the American Society for Public Administration, the Association for Conflict Resolution, the National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution, and the International Association of Conflict Management.  She received her master’s degree in public policy and management from The Ohio State University in 1995. Her research interests include conflict management, employment policy, workplace culture and communication. Her work experiences vary in administrative, academic and practical realms. She is active volunteering in the community and she has growing experience in facilitation and mediation.

Tina Nabatchi, Research Coordinator
Associate Instructor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

Tina Nabatchi is a doctoral student in the Public Affairs program at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University’s. Her research interests include public management, public policy, and law, particularly in relation to conflict resolution and sustainable development administration. As the research coordinator, Ms. Nabatchi designs and conducts applied research and program evaluation on dispute resolution and is responsible for developing and implementing research and evaluation designs, managing research teams, analyzing data and writing reports. Nabatchi has published her research in several outlets and presented at several professional and academic conferences. Ms. Nabatchi holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Political Science from The American University and a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Vermont.

John Krauss, Director of ICRI State Programs
John L. Krauss joined Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) as a Senior Fellow in January 1991. Mr. Krauss is an attorney, admitted to the Indiana and District of Columbia Bars, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a Certified Mediator by the Indiana Supreme Court. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO., and a law degree from Indiana University School of Law. He recently joined the staff of the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute to head up the Institute’s state projects in Indianapolis.

Institute Staff
The staff at the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute (ICRI) is comprised of university professors and graduate and undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds including law, public affairs, and environmental science. The staff members are dedicated to the expansion and growth of dispute resolution and consensus processes and work toward these goals in their various fields of interest.
 

Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute
Last updated: July 23, 2004
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