Events
Upcoming Events
October 14, 2022
Grande Lum will be a featured speaker at the 20th Annual Advanced Mediation Techniques Workshop at Belmont University, Nashville Tennessee.
Past Events
October 6, 2022
Grande Lum wias a featured speaker for a roundtable discussion hosted by the Association for Conflict Resolution of Greater New York (ACR-GNY) at John Jay College on “Peacemaking in America: Doing Depolarization Work at the community Relations Service and Beyond..” 8-10 a.m. EDT.
April 1-2, 2022
Grande Lum will be a pane;ist for Harvard Negotiation Law Review (HNLR) Symposium session on Difficult Conversations: Negotiating and Mediating Across Socio-Political Differences. 2:00 - 3:30 p.m., , Saturday, April 2, 2022.
February 25, 2022
Grande Lum joined Cary McClelland in moderating a panel entitled “Reparations and Racial Justice in California and Beyond,” as part of the conference on Rethinking Systems Design for Racial Justice & Equity. This session featured several academics discussing their research into reparations and racial justice initiatives across the United States.
November 18, 2021
Grande Lum gave a book talk on America’s Peacemakers for the Great Reads Series sponsored by Mediate.com.
November 9, 2021
Neil Levine gave a talk on America’s Peacemakers at an event hosted by the Kroc Instiitute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego. The talk was was moderated by Rachel Locke, the Director of Impact:Peace. Impact: Peace works with change makers in the peacebuilding and violence prevention space, harnessing knowledge, evidence and research to super-charge processes that can make a meaningful difference in advancing peace.
October 21-24, 2021
Grande Lum joined the 2021 Peace History Society Virtual Conference to present perspectives on the Community Relations Service as part of a panel on peace-building efforts by governments and intergovernmental organizations. Satuday, October 23, 2021; 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. EDT.
September 25, 2021
Grande Lum moderated a panel entitled “A Moonshot Moment” at the Silicon Valley Sculpture 2021. This panel is part of 5-day event that includes performance art that draws attention to pressing issues facing the Silicon Valley community, such as privacy, equality, displacement. Saturday, September 25 at 4:00 p.m. EDT.
September 23, 2021
Bravethrough host, Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng hosted Grande Lum for this event on Peace Day which featured a discussion of recent events and his work to build peace in local communities and the Community Relations Service, as chronicled in America’s Peacemakers.
June 3, 2021
Grande Lum joined AARP San Jose for a community conversation on how to report hate crimes and harassment and how to seek support for victims and witnesses.
June 1, 2021
The opening plenary session of Association of Family and Conciliation Courts’ 58th Annual Conference featured Grande Lum, who served as Director of the US Department of Justice’s Community Relations Service (CRS) under then-President Barack Obama. Last year, Mr. Lum published America's Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights, which examines 50 years of civil rights conflicts from inside the agency and explains the momentous impact of the agency.
May 26, 2021
Accordence hosted co-founder and author Grande Lum for a webinar entitled “Bringing People Together: Approaches for Challenging Times.”
May 16, 2021
The Clarion Performing Arts Center (San Francisco, CA) will feature a talk by Grande Lum on America’s Peacemakers on May 16, 2021 from 2-3 p.m. PT to honor Asian American and Pacific Isander Heritage Month.
May 12, 2021
Grande Lum made a presentation on the book’s themes for the U.S. Bureau for Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) as part of their Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
April 27, 2021
Grande Lum joined the authors of a new book, Dispute System Design by Lisa Blomgren Amsler, Janet K. Martinez and Stephanie E. Smith at their book launch.
April 5, 2021
Grande Lum was a guest speaker at the invitation of Professor Phil Tajitsu Nash for his class on Asian American Public Policy, one of the 400-level classes taught in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland (College Park).
March 29, 2021
CDA - Collaborative Learning (Cambridge. MA) hosted a book launch conversation entitled “Challenging the Way We See the World Around Us” featuring authors Séverine Autesserre (The Frontlines of Peace) and Grande Lum (America's Peacemakers) from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
March 26, 2021
Grande Lum and Neil Levine joined Dr. Kristina Hook, Executive Director of the Better Evidence Project of the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University for a discussion entitled “Global Lessons from America’s Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service, Civil Rights, and Lessons for Violence Prevention Today.”
The New Books Network hosted a podcast with Grande Lum on America’s Peacemakers as part of their New Books In Political Science series. To listen to the podcast, click here.
March 9, 2021
The Alliance for Peacebuilding, Mediators Beyond Borders International and the National Association for Community Mediation hosted an event on “Community Responses to Violence – From the Top Down and the Bottom Up,” fearturing the following speakers: Grande Lum, co-author of America’s Peacemakers, D.G. Mawn, President of the National Association for Community Mediation, Prabha Sankaranaryan, President & CEO of Mediators Beyond Borders International and Kabrina Bass, Executive Director of Midlands Mediation (Columbia, South Carolina). 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. ET.
March 3, 2021
The Council of the International Institute for Conflict Resolution and Prevention hosted Grande Lum for a presentation on "America's Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights."
February 19, 2021
The Center on Dispute Resolution, Quinnipiac University School of Law and the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale hosted a program featuring Grande Lum and Josh Stulberg (commentator), Ohio State University Mortiz College of Law on "America's Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights."
February 17, 2021
The USAID Alumni Association hosted a presentation and discussion by Grande Lum and Neil Levine on America’s Peacemakers, drawing the links between the work of CRS and conflict resolution application in international development.
February 8, 2021
CRS Remembered - BOOK Party - Grande Lum and CRS alumni, including Frank Amoroso, Tommy Battles, Tim Johnson and others, discussed the history and specific cases involving CRS, moderated by Miguel Hernandez.
January 30, 2020
The Mediation Society (TMS) of San Francisco hosted a presentation by Grande Lum on America's Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights.
January 27, 2021
Grande Lum accepts International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution’s Annual Book Award for America’s Peacekeepers.
December 28, 2020
Book Party - Friends and Family - Program featuring Grande Lum and George Lopez, moderated by David Levine.
December 10, 2020
Cambridge Negotiation Institute (CNI) hosted a roundtable on the theme of Bridging and Healing Across Racial Divides Post-Election 2020 - The Role of Conflict Resolution. Speakers included America’s Peacmakers co-author Grande Lum, former acting CRS Directors Becky Monroe and Paul Monteiro and Jason Craige Harris (Perception Institute). Watch the video here.
November 12, 2020
The Ohio State University Moritz’s Program on Dispute Resolution and the Divided Community Project, along with the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program, the Stanford Law School Gould Center for Conflict Resolution, and Menlo College celebrated the launch of America’s Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights. Watch here.
Speakers included:
Sarah Cole, Michael E. Moritz Chair in Alternative Dispute Resolution, OSU Law
Alonzo Emery, Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
David Levine, Bertram Levine’s son
Grande Lum, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Menlo College
Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Distinguished and Chancellor’s Chair in Law, UCI Law
Janet Martinez, Director, Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program, Stanford Law School
Nancy Rogers, Moritz Chair Emeritus, OSU Law
Ocober 14, 2020
The UC Hastings Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution's (CNDR) New Frontiers in ADR Series hosted co-author of “America’s Peacemakers,” Grande Lum, Provost of Menlo College and former Director of CNDR. This book tells the story of the federal agency within the Department of Justice that assists and mediates in communities as they reconcile and recover from discrimination, hate crimes, and unrest based on issues like race and religion. Moderated by CNDR Director Sheila Purcell, and Deputy Director Mattie Robertson. To view the event, click here.