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Community Engagement in Federal Site Remediation
Community advisory groups (CAGs) can play an important role in engaging the community to manage long-term cleanup sites. However, it's vital to set them up for success.
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Companies, Communities & Responsible Engagement: What Palm Oil and Salmon Tell Us About Constructive Change in Latin America
Merrick Hoben and David Plumb explain three process observations from their work with palm oil and salmon in Latin America.
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Don’t Believe Everything You Think: The Pitfalls of Cognitive Bias
Cognitive biases can provide shortcuts to decision-making, but in complex and contentious processes, they often get in the way of making the best agreements.
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Penning a New Name: JFFI or Joint Fact Finding Institutions
Joint fact finding alone is not always enough when facing issues that span over broad geographic areas and may take years to examine.
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Human Rights, Land Disputes, and Problem-Solving in the Honduras & Guatemala Palm Oil Sectors
Sometimes designing a legitimate dispute resolution process for a company requires examining both their responsibilities as well as deeper structural problems. This is no easy thread to tie.
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Breaking the Natural Resources Gridlock with Consensus Building
A comprehensive, collaborative process built by stakeholders can create solutions to conflicts over natural resource scarcity in California.
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E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many One)
Editing a major planning document from a multi-stakeholder process with thousands of comments over multiple drafts can be a nightmare. Here are some tips on getting it done.
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Community Protocols: Can They Be a Tool for More Balanced, Interest-Based Negotiation Between Companies, Communities, and Governments?
Based on CBI's work to better understand how greater transparency around extractives revenues might affect Indigenous Peoples, this blog explores whether community protocols could be used to help bridge the gap among community members, government agencies, and extractive companies.
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Adil Najam on Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Adil Najam, Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, contributes a piece on the key takeaways from the Paris Agreement.
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Seven Benchmarks to Build Consensus on a Groundwater Sustainability Agency
In California, CBI has been arms-deep in the creation of groundwater sustainability agencies to face pressing issues of water management. Bartlett contributed a post on building consensus in the creation process.
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The Effects of Climate Change Are All Local: Here's What You Can Do to Help Manage the Risks
For coastal communities already feeling the impacts of climate change, CBI's book shows how climate risk simulations and structured community dialogue can help accelerate the adoption of risk management measures that everyone agrees upon.
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Lessons from a Chilean Forestry Mediation
CBI and a Chilean partner organization jointly mediated a conflict between a major forestry company and a local community. Here is what CBI learned.
