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This is an excerpt from "Preparing for Battle", a proprietary training video produced by CBI for Procter & Gamble.

CBI Founder/Chief Knowledge Officer and Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT, Lawrence Susskind, uses a role-play simulation at an executive education seminar on dealing with an angry public. This segment is part of the Program on Negotiation's "Negotiation Pedagogy Video Series, Part Two."

This is the Teacher's Guide Preview to Workable Peace — CBI's innovative secondary school curriculum, teaching, and learning project that integrates the study of intergroup conflict and the development of crucial civic and social skills into social studies and humanities classes.

View the complete Teacher's Guide to Workable Peace (in 8 parts).

Hal Movius, discusses why building individual negotiation skills can fail to produce organizational results. Dr. Movius, co-author of "Built to Win: Creating a World-Class Negotiation Organization", explains how business leaders focus too much on building general negotiation skills, and not enough on assessing and changing organizational constraints — the way that roles, processes, and incentives are structured.

Lawrence Susskind, CBI Founder/Chief Knowledge Officer and MIT Professor, is featured on New Hampshire Public Radio's "The Exchange", addressing the issue of NIMBYism (Not in My Backyard) — those who oppose local siting of renewable energy projects because of the actual or perceived losses to themselves and their community, regardless of potential benefits. Susskind recommends that energy planners and developers inform the public about projects before decisions about siting are made and give all stakeholders a chance to participate in the decision making process.

A video excerpt from "The Linder Negotiation", a proprietary training video produced by CBI for Procter & Gamble.

In April 2009, more than 170 mayors, county commissions, environmentalists, business leaders and Maryland state officials came together in Annapolis for "Winning Support for Addressing Climate Change". An interactive summit about community-level responses to climate risks such as sea-level rise and storm surge that threaten the state’s coast, its centerpiece was an innovative negotiation role-play, facilitated by CBI, that demonstrated the key challenges and policy options coastal communities face.

CBI Founder/Chief Knowledge Officer and MIT Professor Lawrence Susskind introduces his book, "Breaking Robert's Rules." He summarizes the problems with Robert's Rules of Order; why an alternative — the Consensus Building Approach — is more effective and enjoyable; and how groups can transition to this more natural process of group problem solving and decision making.

A collaboration between the Consensus Building Institute and Search for Common Ground, the U.S. Muslim Engagement Initiative has crafted a multi-faceted strategy to enhance U.S. and international security and improve U.S.-Muslim relations. This is Part 1 of a 2-part "Link TV" documentary on the creation of the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Initiative.

Learn more about the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Initiative.

The U.S. Muslim Engagement Initiative has crafted a multi-faceted strategy to enhance U.S. and international security and improve U.S.-Muslim relations. The Initiative will disseminate this new broad-based strategy, in order to shift American public opinion, impact government policies, and stimulate effective public and private action. This is Part 2 of a 2-part "Link TV" documentary on the creation of the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Initiative. 

Learn more about the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Initiative.