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Ronald C. Zabel, Esq.
Ronald C. Zabel became the Executive Director of Conflict Resolution & Conciliation Services, a non-profit peacemaking
organization, in February 1995. He has over twenty years of experience dealing with individual, family, business, workplace,
employment, organizational, community, and public policy conflicts.
While with Conflict Resolution & Conciliation Services he has conducted over three thousand hours of conflict coaching,
mediation, conciliation and arbitration for a broad range of disputes including family (including, relationship preservation
and restoration, parenting, separation, custody, equitable distribution, elder care, and estate issues), victim/offender,
community, employment, commercial, contractual, educational, organizational, and church. He is also experienced in conflict
intervention, particularly in church, workplace and other inter- and intra-organizational contexts. Mr. Zabel serves on the
Fairfax Bar Association's Alternative Dispute Resolution Section.
Mr. Zabel also has extensive experience teaching dispute resolution principles and practice, Christian Conciliation, mediation
and personal peacemaking in a variety of formats including overviews, workshops, seminars, multi-day intensive blocks, and
extended multi-week programs. He has provided instruction in conflict resolution for a variety of organizations and churches,
including programs at Fairfax County Public Schools Student Mediation Conferences, Marymount University, the Virginia Mediation
Network Annual Conference, George Mason University's Northern Virginia Mediation Service Monday Night Forum, the Fairfax Bar
Association Religious Leader Seminar, and the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center's Life Learning Block. He is a mentor/trainer
for Peacemaker Ministries' Reconciler Training Program and Certification Program for Christian Conciliators and has taught
at multiple Peacemaker Ministries conferences and Conciliator Training Practicums.
Prior to founding Conflict Resolution & Conciliation Services he completed a career as a legal officer for the United
States Coast Guard where he was recognized for exceptional ability in negotiating development of regulatory policy and achieving
improved intra-agency relationships. With the Coast Guard he had extensive experience dealing with people in conflict and
facilitating conflict resolution. He managed delivery of all facility and support services for the 400,000 square foot Headquarters
building and administered civilian and military personnel program for its staff of 2400, which involved mediation of issues
between program elements and between staff personnel on an almost daily basis; conducted extensive ethics training and resolved
numerous standards of conduct disputes; trained regulatory project teams in the art of regulatory development and negotiated
extensively with maritime and environmental interest groups, other Federal agencies and the Office of Management and Budget
to resolve controversial issues during development of the significant rules; conceptualized and orchestrated the Coast Guard's
first negotiated rulemaking effort in order to develop the very controversial major rule on pollution response plans for vessels.
Mr. Zabel also has extensive experience in military trials and administrative proceedings serving as counsel for parties,
hearing officer, or Judge.
Mr. Zabel's education includes: J.D, George Washington University; B.A. University of Washington. He has extensive training
in dealing with people in conflict including: multiple courses in negotiation and mediation from the Justice Department's
Legal Education Institute, American Arbitration Association, Northern Virginia Mediation Service, Institute for Christian
Conciliation, Christian Counseling and Education Foundation, Association for Conflict Resolution, and Virginia Mediation Network
with an emphasis on family, employment, church, and relationship based disputes; Procurement Law; Human Resources Management;
Labor Relations; Managing Diversity; Workplace Discrimination; Organizational Program Development and Team Building.
Mr. Zabel's professional memberships include: Virginia State Bar, Fairfax Bar Association, Commercial Mediation Association,
Association for Conflict Resolution (National, Metro DC and Virginia Chapters), Collaborative Law Society, International Academy
of Collaborative Professionals, Christian Legal Society, Virginia Mediation Network, and The Virginia Alternative Dispute
Resolution Joint Committee. He is certified by the Judicial Council of Virginia as a Circuit Court level court-referred mediator
for both civil and family cases and as a mentor for Virginia certification candidates. He is also certified by the Institute
for Christian Conciliation as a Christian Conciliator and is a mentor for candidates for certification in Christian Conciliation.
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