Senate Joint Resolution 16-013 Summary

• Recognizes October 2016 as "Conflict Resolution Month" in Colorado, joining Governor John Hickenlooper's proclamation.

• Invites Coloradans to create events celebrating productive conflict resolution and encourages state leaders to discuss conflict resolution principles in homes, schools, neighborhoods, congregations, and workplaces.

• Encourages development of educational and training programs emphasizing facilitative, interest-based, party-centered, and restorative mediation for judges and officials in the state court system, executive branch, and local governments.

• Directs copies of the resolution be sent to the Colorado Supreme Court chief justice, state court administrator, judicial district judges and administrators, Governor Hickenlooper, the Colorado Bar Association, and various conflict resolution organizations and media outlets.