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"Built to Win" in Good Company on Harvard Business Review's "Indispensible Ideas of 2009" Book List

Harvard Business Review recently compiled a list of Harvard Business Press titles that were recognized as top business books of 2009 by several leading business publications. CIO Insight chose Built to Win, co-authored by CBI's Lawrence Susskind and Hal Movius, as one of its "Best IT-Business Books of 2009".  


CBI Facilitates Conference on U.S. Surface Transportation Policy Published July 20th, 2010 by Patrick Field

In March 2010, CBI assisted the Bipartisan Policy Center’s National Transportation Policy Project in convening an international conference titled "Transitioning to Performance-Based Federal Surface Transportation Policy" at The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Conference Center in Italy. Facilitated by CBI’s Patrick Field, the conference convened twenty-five leaders in the transportation field, representing diverse perspectives and constituencies.

Jim Luce on the CBI's U.S.-Muslim Engagement Initiative

Jim Luce, former investment banker and founder of the UN-affiliated Orphans International, recently shared his thoughts on CBI's U.S.-Muslim Engagement Initiative in Huffington Post's "One Year After Cairo Speech: The U.S.-Muslim Engagement Initiative."

CBI Founder Lawrence Susskind and Co-Editor Larry Crump Awarded IACM Outstanding Book Award

This June, at its annual conference, the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) awarded its Outstanding Book Award to Consensus Building Institute's Founder Lawrence Susskind, and Larry Crump, co-editors of “Multiparty Negotiation” (Sage). IACM is viewed by many as the leading association for negotiation and conflict management scholars. By recognizing books that make an outstanding contribution to the field of conflict management, IACM hopes to draw the attention of practitioners to high-quality scholarly work in the conflict management field.

CBI Board Member Appointed Administrator of BP Compensation Fund

Consensus Building Institute (CBI) board member, Kenneth R. Feinberg has been named by President Obama as the independent administrator of a $20 billion fund recently established by BP to compensate victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. President Obama said of Feinberg, "I'm confident he will assure that claims are administered as quickly, as fairly and as transparently as possible."

Who Will Guarantee the Safety of Off-shore Oil and Gas Facilities? Published June 14th, 2010 by Lawrence Susskind

In 1979, following the accident at Three Mile Island a special commission appointed by President Jimmy Carter recommended that the nuclear power industry take responsibility for setting industry-wide safety standards and ensuring safe operations at all nuclear facilities in the United States. This led to the creation of the Institute for Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), a not-for-profit organization supported by the nuclear industry, but with an accountable board of directors. INPO conducts evaluations of all nuclear power plants every 18 - 24 months.

CBI Recipient of “Innovation in Technology and Environmental Conflict Resolution (ECR) Award”

The Consensus Building Institute was pleased to receive an "Innovation in Technology and Environmental Conflict Resolution (ECR) Award" from the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution at the national 2010 ECR conference held in May in Tucson, Arizona.

The award, presented to Patrick Field of the Consensus Building Institute and Noah Susskind of Adroit Productions, recognized their work, “Stories from the Borderlands - In their Own Voices: A Podcast to Supplement an Issues Assessment on a Massachusetts River Restoration Land Use and Development in Two New England Towns.”

Deliberative Democracy and Dispute Resolution
Lawrence Susskind
September, 2009

There are three problems with the way our traditional approach to democratic decisionmaking allocates scarce resources, establishes policy priorities, and sets health, safety, and related stan

Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution
There are three problems with the way our traditional approach to democratic decisionmaking allocates scarce resources, establishes policy priorities, and sets health, safety, and related standards in the public arena. The way we make public policy and “do” democracy in America can be improved in a rather straightforward manner by addressing these three problems in a new and different way. The purpose of this article is to describe these three problems and then explain why and how a “consensus building approach” to public decisionmaking can produce better—that is, fairer, stabler, wiser, and more efficient—results. 
Collaborative Planning and Adaptive Management in Glen Canyon: A Cautionary Tale
Lawrence Susskind
Alejandro E. Camacho and Todd Schenk
April, 2010

Despite the best of intentions and the availability of considerable resources, the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program (AMP) has failed to bring stakeholders together to jointly increase their understanding of the Colorado River and make useful, broadly supported resource management recommendations. In this article, the authors argue that the Glen Canyon Dam AMP has implemented CAM ineffectively, largely due to Congress and the DOI’s deficient initial design.

To read the text of this article as it appears in the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, download the PDF.

Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
Despite the best of intentions and the availability of considerable resources, the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program (AMP) has failed to bring stakeholders together to jointly increase their understanding of the Colorado River and make useful, broadly supported resource management recommendations. In this article, the authors argue that the Glen Canyon Dam AMP has implemented CAM ineffectively, largely due to Congress and the DOI’s deficient initial design.
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