Training

An initial one-day course catalyzed an organization-wide commitment to build the negotiation skills of all American Cancer Society staff and volunteers. With training and ongoing support from CBI, a team of ACS trainers is now providing their own negotiation skills workshops throughout the organization and around the country.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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CBI partnered with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to prepare and deliver a one-day workshop for the agency’s Executive Leadership Team (ELT) that focused on the role of joint fact-finding (JFF) in USGS’s Science Impact program.

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CBI partnered with IPMS to train senior officials from the public, private and non-profit sectors in the techniques of multilateral dialogue to resolve the conflicts that arise in the context of implementing sustainable development.

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CBI, in partnership with Kearns & West and Jonathan Raab of Raab Associates, Ltd., have delivered training to over two-hundred agency and stakeholder participants engaged in the relicensing of hydroelectric dams.