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23 Conflict Resol. Q. 1 (2005-2006)

handle is hein.journals/cfltrq23 and id is 1 raw text is: onflict Resolution Quarterly officially begins it fifth volume with this issue. Five years ago, as CRQ evolved from Mediation Quarterly, we announced that the CRQ mission was to present theory to practice schol- arship in a variety of practice contexts and on a variety of practice processes. Looking back over the first four volumes of CRQ, I believe that the journal has fulfilled its basic mission and continues to encourage multi- method and multidisciplinary understandings of conflict resolution. However, we need a great deal more critical research, theory, and prac- tice scholarship in this field. It is this assessment that encouraged me to devote part of this issue to an important article from Robert Baruch Bush and Lisa Blomgren Bingham on the Knowledge Gaps study. For almost thirty years, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation promoted and sustained development of conflict theory and practice linkages. The foun- dation supported several Conflict Theory Centers in which leading schol- ars in the field were able to engage in theory development and basic and applied research, with the hope of establishing a solid knowledge founda- tion for the practice of conflict resolution. As the Hewlett Foundation pre- pared to change funding foci, Terry Amsler, the program director of the Conflict Resolution Program, had the wisdom and foresight to commis- sion a study of the Theory Centers to identify what was accomplished and what knowledge gaps remained. After the study was completed, the foun- dation hosted a conference in June 2004 to allow Theory Center scholars to discuss the report and identify areas of funding for the final round of Hewlett seed grants. The Knowledge Gaps study, prepared by two promi- nent scholars and presented in this volume, is a skillful combination of the original report and commentary from the June 2004 meeting. I hope you will take time to consider the gaps identified in this report and con- sider what we, as a field, must do to close them. Although the Hewlett Foundation is no longer a major benefactor of the field, and other founda- tions and funders seem less generous of late, our field bears the ultimate responsibility for acknowledging and addressing these gaps. I hope that our associations, universities, academic programs, and individual leaders will CONFLICT RESOLUTION QUARTERLY, vol. 23, no. 1, Fall 2005 @ Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 1 and the Association for Conflict Resolution

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