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Learning to Work at the Intersection of Science, Policy and Politics: Instream Flow 2008
Published November 26th, 2008It's not easy to reach agreement on how to allocate scarce water supplies when drought conditions reduce available water quantities to levels below what the law guarantees to various users and what's
A Hands-on Program for Facilitating Powerful Coalitions- April 14-16, 2009 in Austin, Texas
Published November 26th, 2008A cellist and budding small business woman decides to apply the Mutual Gains Approach to her upcoming negotiation.
In 2006, CBI’s founder, Larry Susskind, and CBI partner-consultant Suzanne Orenstein recognized that professionals who are working to apply various methods of consensus and collaboration on public issues need to come together to discuss commonalities and future directions among their various collaborative approaches. The group met in person and by conference call several times over two years, and produced a consensus vision for collaboration and agreement on principles and prerequisites for effective collaborative work.
On September 24, 2008, the eminent and diverse Leadership Group on U.S.-Muslim Engagement launched its consensus report: Changing Course: A New Direction for U.S. Relations with the Muslim World.
CBI Reports - Winter 2008
In this issue of CBI Reports: CBI celebrates the successful launch of the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project Leadership Group Report; Suzanne Orenstein discusses future issues for collaboration and consensus building; Andrew Maxfield explores applications of the Mutual Gains Approach to Negotiation in everyday small buisness activities; and CBI welcomes senior associate David Plumb. Download the complete newsletter in PDF format.
Facilitating Dialogue in the Niger Delta through Participatory Evaluation
Published October 9th, 2008From June through August 2008, a diverse group of community, government, NGO and company representatives came together to conduct an evaluation of a core component of Chevron Nigeria Limited’s commu
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