Our vision is a world in which our most difficult challenges are solved through collaboration.

In our interconnected world, solving problems demands more of leaders than ever before: innovative stakeholder engagement, conflict resolution, and strategic collaboration.

For more than 20 years, we have worked at the forefront of collaboration and conflict resolution, helping leaders generate breakthrough results on tough social, environmental, and economic issues.

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Worldwide Engagement

OVER PAST DECADE

100,000 Individuals

4,000 Organizations

70 Countries

What We Do

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  • The Latest on Our Work

    CBI Reports highlights our recent insights and projects, including how breakthrough collaboration can help advance progress on intractable problems, assisting the United Nations in developing a new approach for addressing land and conflict, and new insights on managed retreat in the face of rising seas. Read more.

  • 'Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts' Book Review

    Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts by Patrick Field, Tushar Kansal, Catherine Morris, and Stacie Smith, has been called a “groundbreaking effort that documents conflicts and strategies for collaboration in today’s US Energy Sector.” Read more.

  • Reflections on a Collaborative Documentary Experiment

    CBI, in collaboration with CREER, used participatory filmmaking to help stakeholders in Cesar, Colombia, an area that has been rife with conflict, acknowledge difficult experiences and craft a joint narrative for the problem-solving work ahead. Senior Mediator Merrick Hoben reflects on the project. Read more.

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