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![CBI Engages Switzer Fellows on Breakthrough Collaboration]()
CBI Engages Switzer Fellows on Breakthrough Collaboration
March 26, 2021
On March 19, 2021, CBI hosted a virtual engagement for Switzer Network Fellows exploring "Breakthrough Collaboration on Environmental Problems."
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![Building Water Collaboration by Helping Water Managers Engage Productively]()
Building Water Collaboration by Helping Water Managers Engage Productively
March 17, 2021
CBI developed an assessment, first-ever strategic plan, and governance policy to help the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District in Colorado clarify and create a lasting vision for its role in the Yampa River.
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![Guiding Chile’s Salmon Farmers toward More Sustainable Community Relations]()
Guiding Chile’s Salmon Farmers toward More Sustainable Community Relations
March 17, 2021
CBI works with Chilean farmed salmon companies and communities to improve the industry’s social performance.
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![Marsh and Cliff: Piermont, New York, Takes on Climate Change’s Flood Risk]()
Marsh and Cliff: Piermont, New York, Takes on Climate Change’s Flood Risk
March 17, 2021
CBI pilots innovative methods to help residents of one coastal community understand and begin adapting to the complex and emotionally fraught issue of long-term flood risk.
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![Long Island Solar Roadmap Released, Facilitated by CBI’s Catherine Morris]()
Long Island Solar Roadmap Released, Facilitated by CBI’s Catherine Morris
March 11, 2021
CBI Senior Mediator Catherine Morris worked with the Long Island Solar Roadmap leadership team - The Nature Conservancy, Defenders of Wildlife, and Michigan Technological University - to ensure the Roadmap reflects input from a diverse consortium representing state, local, and county governments; the solar industry; farmers; environmental and community organizations; the electric utility; businesses; and academic institutions.
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![Part Four — Key Lessons]()
Part Four — Key Lessons
Reflections on facilitator identity and the management of complex public disputes
March 11, 2021
This is final part of a four-part series of blog posts, related to a recent article in CBI Reports, in which we sought to address several difficult questions related to facilitator identity in complex public disputes. In this post, we summarize key overall lessons.
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![Part Three — The Value of Lived and Learned Experiences]()
Part Three — The Value of Lived and Learned Experiences
Reflections on facilitator identity and the management of complex public disputes
March 11, 2021
This is part three of a four-part series of blog posts, related to a recent article in CBI Reports, in which we sought to address several difficult questions related to facilitator identity in complex public disputes. In this post, we discuss the importance of acknowledging both lived and learned experiences as key components and perceptions of identity.
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![Part Two — Navigating Internal vs. External Perceptions of Facilitator Identity]()
Part Two — Navigating Internal vs. External Perceptions of Facilitator Identity
Reflections on facilitator identity and the management of complex public disputes
March 11, 2021
This is part two of a four-part series of blog posts, related to a recent article in CBI Reports, in which we sought to address several difficult questions related to facilitator identity in complex public disputes. In this post, we address the importance of proactively and simultaneously tracking both internal and external perceptions of identity.
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![CBI-Facilitated Initiative Releases a Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy]()
CBI-Facilitated Initiative Releases a Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy
March 5, 2021
CBI Managing Director Stacie Smith worked closely with the Executive Committee to design and facilitate the deliberations of a diverse and cross-ideological 32-person Steering Committee and helped guide engagement of a national network of more than 300 scholars, educators, practitioners, and students from a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences to develop the Roadmap.
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CBI-Facilitated Landlord-Tenant Dialogue in New York City Leads to New Alliance to Prevent COVID-Driven Evictions
February 11, 2021
From June through September 2020, CBI facilitated a groundbreaking effort to build agreement among New York City landlord and tenant groups on ways to prevent the COVID economic crisis from leading to a wave of evictions across the city.
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![Breakthrough Collaboration: Sustainable Groundwater Management in Salinas Valley]()
Breakthrough Collaboration: Sustainable Groundwater Management in Salinas Valley
December 22, 2020
The Consensus Building Institute (CBI) helped create the Salinas Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency (SVBGSA), which brings together diverse stakeholders to achieve a legislative mandate.
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![Part One — Intersectionality and Facilitation]()
Part One — Intersectionality and Facilitation
Reflections on facilitator identity and the management of complex public disputes
October 27, 2020
This is part one of a four-part series of blog posts, related to a recent article in CBI Reports, in which we sought to address several difficult questions related to facilitator identity in complex public disputes. In this post, we address the importance of understanding and navigating identity through an intersectional lens (i.e. acknowledging how multiple identity characteristics “intersect” and create different lived experiences for both stakeholders and facilitators), and doing so with humility and integrity.
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