RockRose Institute is the primary organizer of the forum.  The institute was founded in 2004 by four women attorneys to promote the art of non-violent conflict resolution.  The Forum is a project of many individuals and organizations in collaboration. To date, we have the following partners:

•American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, providing members and the public with creative leadership in dispute resolution

•American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, defending liberty, pursuing justice

• Angeles Arrien Foundation for Cross Cultural Education and Research, supporting multi-cultural and intergenerational collaboration and leadership

•Applied Research Center, advancing racial justice through research, advocacy and journalism

• The Asia Foundation, committed to the development of a peaceful, prosperous, just and open Asia-Pacific region

• Association for Conflict Resolution, enhances the practice and public understanding of conflict resolution

• Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California, offering educational programs and networking opportunities in mediation and other conflict resolution practices

•Aurora Forum at Stanford University, exploring democratic ideals, inspiring social hope

•Bali Institute for Global Renewal, awakening global action

•Bar Association of San Francisco, providing leadership for the Bay Area legal community and the general public since 1872

•Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at Rice University, seeking to promote and to understand the conditions that lead to peaceful coexistence among people of different religions.

•California Dispute Resolution Council, the voice of alternative dispute resolution in California

•Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, advancing knowledge about human behavior through research

•The Center for Justice and Accountability, helping survivors of severe human rights abuses hold their persecutors accountable

•Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at UC Hastings College of the Law, organizing classes, research and professional programs in negotiation and dispute resolution

•The Co-Intelligence Institute, striving for the conscious evolution of culture in harmony with nature and with the highest human potential

•The Compassionate Listening Project, empowering individuals to heal polarization and build bridges between people, communities and nations in conflict

•Conflict Resolution Program at Sonoma State University, providing in-depth skills training in conflict resolution and alternative dispute resolution

•The Congregation Emanu-El, serving as the foundation of community for Jews and non-Jews, for members and non-members

•The Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, nurturing peace by promoting ethical, visionary and values-based human development

•Equal Access, bridging the gap between poverty and opportunity

•Equal Justice Society, advancing social and racial justice through law and public policy, communications and the arts and alliance building

•Extraordinary Conversations, helping leaders generate breakthroughs in organization, team, and individual performance

•Facing History and Ourselves, examining history and human behavior

•General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church, faith in action

•Global Nomads Group, fostering dialogue and understanding among the world’s youth

•Grace Cathedral of San Francisco, a house of prayer for all people

•Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative, engaging negotiation and conflict management on the one hand and mindfulness and the great wisdom traditions on the other

•Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, researching emerging issues in international human rights and humanitarian law

•Interfaith Center at the Presidio, created to welcome, serve and celebrate the diverse spiritual wisdom of the Bay Area

•International Centre for Healing and the Law, transforming the field of law and justice

•Islamic Networks Group, eliminating stereotypes through education

•Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego, fostering peace, cultivating justice, and creating a safer world

•JUSTPEACE Center for Mediation and Conflict Transformation, engaging conflict well

•Just Think, igniting young minds through media education

•Legal Community Against Violence, providing expertise, information and advocacy to end gun violence

•The Mediation Society, bringing together trained and experienced mediators who meet regularly to share information, develop mediation skills and techniques and enjoy an atmosphere of fellowship among peers

•National Association for Community Mediation, the voice for community mediation

•National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation, fostering a world of conversation, participation and action

•New Zealand Centre for Conflict Resolution, promoting the study and practice of dispute resolution

•PEACE X PEACE, connecting women for peace

•Public Conversations Project, fostering constructive conversations that reach across differences

•Quest for Global Healing, inspiring actions for world renewal

•Roots of Peace, turning minefields into bountiful vineyards

•    Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at the UNLV Boyd School of law, to see a film trailer about bridgebuilding through basketball across the Arab and Jewish communities in the Mideast, go to http://blumenfeld.com/hoops.mov

•    San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the first and largest Jewish Film Festival

•Southern California Mediation Association, promoting mediation as a profession by supporting and contributing to each professional member's individual standing as a provider of an important service, whether paid or unpaid

•Stanford Law School Negotiation and Mediation Team, integrating theory and practice in conflict resolution

•State of the World Forum, transforming conversations that matter into actions that make a difference

•United Nations Association of San Francisco, enhancing U.S. participation in the United Nations system

•United Nations Department of Public Information, coordinating and disseminating information about United Nations activities and events

•United Religions Initiative, promoting enduring, daily interfaith cooperation

•University of San Francisco School of Law, Center for Law and Global Justice, promoting legal education with a global perspective and nurtures the rule of law with justice

•Veriditas, the voice of the labyrinth movement

•World Affairs Council of Northern California, providing a unique opportunity to engage in candid discussions with people who are shaping the world by hosting more than 200 events every year with leading political and business leaders, academics, journalists and artists

•The World Café, shaping our futures through conversations that matter