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It's time to break the rules. Consider this new way to run your meetings, build consensus, and get results.
Helping the WWF Global Forest and Trade Network to Improve Joint Decision-making
Published May 29th, 2008 by Merrick HobenWWF Global Forest and Trade Network
Buyers and producers of responsibly harvested wood products will benefit from consensus building. Read about how CBI and WWF engage diverse leaders.
Negotiating Partnerships for Sustainable Development
This course uses the Mutual Gains
Approach and CBI’s consensus building expertise to teach methods for integrating economic, environmental and social goals, managing trade-offs, and leveraging relationships to
produce and sustain joint gains.
Designing projects and policies for sustainability is becoming a baseline expectation across the business, government and non-profit sectors.
CBI recently reviewed over 40 conflict assessment reports from around
the world on behalf of an organization hoping to advance public sector
dispute resolution in Japan. Our study revealed a wide variety of
approaches.
Indian Taxation Advisory Board and Canadian Energy Pipeline Association
Since 1998, CBI has worked closely with the Indian Taxation Advisory Board (ITAB) and the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA) to help improve relationships and negotiations among First Nations and the gas and oil industry.
Clients
Indian Taxation Advisory Board, Canada Canadian Energy Pipeline AssociationCBI Practitioners
Patrick Field, Matthew McKinneyJoint Environmental Mediation Service
In the summer of 2000, the Joint Environmental Mediation Service (JEMS) was created as a partnership between the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI), a think-tank devoted to developing practical solutions to the Middle East conflict and CBI, which took a lead role in its development.
CBI Practitioners
Michele Ferenz, Merrick Hoben, Stacie Nicole SmithTraining in Peru
In November 2002, CBI began working with Peru’s Centro de Conciliacion y Arbitraje to provide public policy consensus building training, with particular focus on the environmental, economic and social justice dilemmas emanating from the country’s controversial mining industry.
Clients
Centro de Conciliacion y ArbitrajeCBI Practitioners
Merrick HobenPublic Involvement Forum of Japan
CBI worked with a network of Japanese not-for-profit organizations and government officials in exploring ways of using consensus-building tools to address public policy disputes in Japan.
CBI Practitioners
Lawrence SusskindUnited Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
CBI completed an evaluation of the multistakeholder dialogue processes instituted in 1998 by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), the body created and mandated to promote the execution of Agenda 21, the program of action adopted at the 1992 Rio Conference on Environment and Development.
Clients
United Nations Commission on Sustainable DevelopmentCBI Practitioners
David Fairman
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