Timothy Hedeen, Ph.D.

Timothy Hedeen is an Associate Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University. He provides mediation services through court and private programs, delivers trainings in the areas of conflict resolution and communication, facilitates group and public policy decision making and planning, and conducts research and evaluation on dispute resolution and justice policy.

He serves on the editorial boards of Conflict Resolution Quarterly and Family Court Review, as associate liaison to the Section Council of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, and is a past chair of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Community Mediation. He is a senior consultant to the Consortium for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education, and research director of a national study of the collateral consequences of criminal convictions for the ABA's Criminal Justice Section.

He earned his doctorate (awarded with distinction) from Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, where he was a graduate affiliate of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts and a student in the interdisciplinary Social Science program.

Scholarship
Dr. Hedeen has published articles related to coercion in mediation in Justice System Journal (2005), the evolution of community mediation in Conflict Resolution Quarterly (2004), the institutionalization of community mediation in Mediation Quarterly (2000) and Penn State Law Review (2003). He and Dr. Patrick Coy of Kent State have developed a stage model of co-optation of social movements, published in The Sociological Quarterly (2005), and explored issues of capacity to participate in mediation in Mediation Quarterly (1998).

He has written on teaching and training in Conflict Resolution Quarterly (2005) and Teaching Sociology (2003) and on the reform of family law education in law schools in Family Court Review (2006). He served as guest editor alongside Linda Baron of a symposium on community dispute resolution and collaborative governance in Review of Policy Research (2006) and proposed conflict practices for leaders in KSU's Journal of Ethics in Leadership (2006). His published interview with Ron Kelly, who offers mediation services at the annual Burning Man festival, appeared in Conflict Resolution Quarterly (2009) and is posted at Mediate.com.

He served as associate editor of Social Conflicts and Collective Identities (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) and wrote the epilogue to Workplace Dispute Resolution (Michigan State University Press, 1997). He prepared the reference manual Using Participant Feedback to Evaluate and Improve Quality in Mediation (2002) and authored chapters for professional references including the American Bar Association's ADR Handbook for Judges (2004) and the Minnesota State Bar Association's ADR Deskbook (1998). His commissioned evaluation and assessment efforts include analyses of the US Postal Service's REDRESS program (2003), the empirical literature on community dispute resolution (2006), the mediation training guidelines for Florida's state courts (2007), and long-range planning for an Atlanta-area court ADR program (2009).

Memberships, service
Dr. Hedeen is an active member of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, the Association for Conflict Resolution, the National Association for Community Mediation, the American Sociological Association, the Peace and Justice Studies Association, and the American Association of University Professors.

He serves as president of KSU's chapter of AAUP and as Coordinator of the HSS Cultural and Regional Studies consortium of interdisciplinary programs. He coordinates the undergraduate certificate program in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).