
April 8, 2015
All Day
Saxbe Auditorium, Moritz College of Law, 55 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1391
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY MORITZ COLLEGE OF LAW PRESENTS
The Annual Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Resolution
"The Next Generation’s Voice: Conflict and Democracy"
Lisa Blomgren Amsler
Professor and Keller-Runden Professor of Public Service
Indiana University Bloomington School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Commentators decry the decline in our democratic institutions as members of our society go online and form fewer connections in the real world. Yet these critiques fail to consider the Next Generation that has no memories of the “way things were” or, worse, they paint a battle scene between Baby Boomers and Millennials. Professor Blomgren Amsler explores this Next Generation and the factors and forces that shape how they view, relate to, and participate in democracy, whether the seeds of institutional change are there, and, if so, what forms they may take.
The Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Resolution was established in 1992 as a result of the generosity of the late Stanley Schwartz Jr. ’47 and the Schwartz family. Each lecture is published in the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, in keeping with Schwartz’s interest in the promotion of scholarly publication in the area of dispute resolution.