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The Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding  (NCRP) degrees involve a comprehensive study of applied methods, theory, and research on a range of subjects, but is specifically focused on intercultural communication and mediation.  Sino has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in NCRP from California State University Dominguez Hills, which houses one of the nation’s premier programs in this critical field of study and practice.

To give you an idea of the depth of knowledge and skill involved in NCRP, these are examples of comprehensive coursework:

• • NCRP 289 - Key Issues in Peacebuilding:  Introduction to theories of peace, conflict and violence.  Emphasis is on interdisciplinary character of peacebuilding and application of theories and methods.  Emphasis on understanding the nature of social conflict, causes of violence and the meanings of Peacebuilding.
• • NCRP 290 - Introduction to Negotiation Theory: Consideration of theories used in bargaining at all levels of society to understand why negotiation is the underlying art in human affairs.  
• • NCRP 291 - Psychology of Peacebuilding:  Examines how psychological processes, cognitive and emotional, individual and collective, combine with external factors in causing violence.
• • NCRP 387 - Environment and Peacebuilding:  Peacebuilding and conflict transformation combine with ecology and in an effort to reconsider the human relations system as it combines with the environment.
• • NCRP 390 - Fundamentals of Conflict Resolution:  Consideration of conflict, war, peace and the global system, as well as cross-cultural issues and methods for resolution of conflicts specific to those issues.
• • NCRP 405 - Research Methods in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding:  Instructs in strategic research approaches used to develop new tools, methods or projects for analysis emphasizing theoretical, analytical, research and practical skills in writing and critical thinking in the field of NCRP.
• • NCRP 410 - Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Pedagogy: Preparation for application of knowledge of NCRP in school settings.  Explores pedagogies appropriate for the development of conflict resolution skills and techniques as basis for both elective and prescriptive training modules.
• • NCRP 490 - Community Service Learning:  Community service learning utilizing mediation skills.
• • NCRP 500 - NCRP Skills, Concepts and Tools: Determining specific purpose and key issues when negotiating, resolving conflict, and building peace.  Effective application when reading, writing, speaking, and listening.  Questioning information, conclusions, and points of view with clarity, accuracy, precision and relevance.  “Thinking beyond the box” with fairness and logic.
• • NCRP 503 - Ethics of Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding:  Examines individual group values and perspectives in relation to negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding processes, with special emphasis on analyzing third party intervener’s ethical responsibilities and dilemmas.
• • NCRP 504 - Theories of Conflict:  Critical analysis of conflict theories and models among individuals, organizations and governments; exploring causes, functions and effects.  Perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, biology, communications, economics, gender studies, geography, history, mathematics, political science, psychology, psychiatry, sociobiology, and sociology. 
• • NCRP 508 - Communication and Conflict:  Emphasizes human communication in context of conflict.  Addresses challenges to effective communication caused by interpersonal, intrapersonal, intergroup or intergroup conflict, and role of communication in resolving such conflicts.  Concentrates on methods of communication most effective in dealing with differences.
• • NCRP 522 - Negotiation Tactics: Tactics used in negotiations among individuals, institutions, and societies.  Planning and conducting personal, corporate, labor, hostage, and diplomatic negotiations.  Cross-cultural, ethical, and historical dimensions.
• • NCRP 525 - Mediation: Theory and skills including requirements for certification under the California Dispute Resolution Programs Act, especially agreement procedures, case development, consensus building, issue framing and prioritizing, orientations toward conflict, and record keeping.
• • NCRP 531 - Marital and Family Mediation:  Separation problems in traditional and nontraditional relationships such as property division and child custody.  Legal, tax, and financial aspects.  The mediation process.  Written and oral agreements.
• • NCRP 533 - Labor Conflict: Case and historical studies in selected industries.  Past, present, and pending court decisions or national and state labor laws.  Strategic planning for labor organizations.  The process of negotiating a labor contract.  Grievance and arbitration procedures.
• • NCRP 535 - Organizational Conflict: Origin and types of conflicts which arise within and between complex organizations.  Positive and negative effects of organizational conflict.  Exploiting, preventing, containing, escalating conflict.
• • NCRP 536 - Dispute Resolution for Sports:  Examines sports law and dispute resolution utilizing particularly the processes of arbitration and mediation.  Focuses on players, owners, agents and unions, as well as other areas of conflict such as free agency and player attitude and disloyalty.
• • NCRP 537 - International Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding:  Study of selected international conflicts involving complex issues such as culture, ethnicity, politics and religion.  Considers common misconceptions concerning diplomacy.  Encourages appreciation of approaches to NCRP as vehicles for successful grassroots impact on peace efforts.
• • NCRP 538 - Public Policy Conflict: Considers constructive and timely approaches to resolving conflicts over use, conservation, and restoration of environment, natural resources, and public lands.  Examines basic principles, mechanisms and strategies for engaging federal agencies in effective environmental conflict resolution and problem solving.
• • NCRP 540 - Community Conflict:  The impact of dynamics on conflict management in communities from neighborhoods to nations, implications of system dynamics for specifying goals and planning interventions to achieve them, from pre-emptive to corrective.  Implications for training and organization.
• • NCRP 541 - Restorative Justice and Peacebuilding:  Addresses respective needs of crime victims and offenders ignored by criminal justice system and international community.  Retribution abandoned in favor of restorative model based on needs of victims, offenders and community, achieved through application of conflict resolution and peacebuilding processes.
• • NCRP 543 - Reducing School Violence Through Conflict Resolution: Practical strategies to teach students to be peacemakers to reduce violence in schools.  Discusses how schools can create cooperative learning environments where students learn how to negotiate and mediate peer conflicts and teachers use academic controversies to enhance learning. 
• • NCRP 544 - Alternative Dispute Resolution Processes:  Surveys a variety of process choices in dispute resolution.  Recognizing that litigation may not be appropriate in many cases.  Examines alternatives such as negotiation, mini-trial, mediation, panel evaluation, summary jury trial, private judging, arbitration, and use of special masters.