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![Community Engagement Skill Building and Training with Shell]()
Community Engagement Skill Building and Training with Shell
November 15, 2017
CBI collaborated with Shell to build community stakeholder engagement capability through customized training and interactive, multimedia curricula.
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![Engaging Stakeholders in Northeast Regional Ocean Planning]()
Engaging Stakeholders in Northeast Regional Ocean Planning
March 24, 2017
CBI works closely with the Northeast Regional Planning Body to gather meaningful feedback from stakeholders as it develops a regional ocean plan.
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Consensus Building When Democracy Hits a Rough Patch
March 24, 2017
CBI takes a hard look at how efforts to bring diverse stakeholders together on challenging national issues will be affected by the polarized atmosphere in Washington.
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![Unique Partnership Fosters Innovation on Tough National Issues]()
Unique Partnership Fosters Innovation on Tough National Issues
March 24, 2017
CBI and Convergence are blending their expertise to work with national leaders on some of the most complex policy issues of our time.
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![E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many One)]()
E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many One)
October 13, 2016
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?]()
Community Protocols: Can They Be a Tool for More Balanced, Interest-Based Negotiation Between Companies, Communities, and Governments?
May 27, 2016
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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![Envisioning a Better Tomorrow for Yemen]()
Envisioning a Better Tomorrow for Yemen
May 3, 2016
In the wake of the Arab Spring, CBI leads a dialogue of Yemeni and international stakeholders to identify ways to address priority needs as well as the underlying causes of the conflict in Yemen.
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![Natural Resources on Indigenous Lands, and the Growing Transparency Movement]()
Natural Resources on Indigenous Lands, and the Growing Transparency Movement
May 3, 2016
CBI publishes a report on how increasing transparency globally around extractive industries might affect Indigenous Peoples.
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![To Retreat or Not Retreat? That is Not Even a Question.]()
To Retreat or Not Retreat? That is Not Even a Question.
May 3, 2016
CBI brings together a wide range of stakeholders to wrestle with complex questions around sea level rise, community engagement, and adaptation.
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![Adil Najam on Paris Agreement on Climate Change]()
Adil Najam on Paris Agreement on Climate Change
January 12, 2016
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]()
Seven Benchmarks to Build Consensus on a Groundwater Sustainability Agency
September 17, 2015
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]()
The Effects of Climate Change Are All Local: Here's What You Can Do to Help Manage the Risks
August 24, 2015
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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