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CBI Engages Switzer Fellows on Breakthrough Collaboration
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
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
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
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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Breakthrough Collaboration: Sustainable Groundwater Management in Salinas Valley
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 Four — Key Lessons
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
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
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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Part One — Intersectionality and Facilitation
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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“Who are you and why do you get to run the meeting?” Reflections on facilitator identity and the management of complex public disputes
When Senior Associate Toby Berkman, as a white Jewish male, led a meeting of a Catholic congregation that had recently been informed by the Catholic Archdiocese that its church would be closing, he found himself pondering some challenging questions related to facilitator identity in complex public disputes. This situation and others led Toby and Danny Egol, former intern at CBI, to craft this article outlining their thoughts on how a facilitator’s many identities can complicate perceptions of facilitator authority, credibility, and neutrality, as well as some key questions related to identity that facilitators might explore in their work.
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American Friends Service Committee crafts a strategy for championing dignity for all
For more than a century, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has taken a principled stand against oppression on a wide range of global issues. In 2018, the AFSC sought CBI’s support in determining how it could best contribute to a brighter future and in crafting a strategic plan for 2020-2030. In this article Senior Mediator Michele Ferenz talks about how the facilitation team helped the AFSC, an organization that subscribes to following the leadership of those most affected by exclusion and violence, set a compelling course for its own future.
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Green v. Gray: Monitoring Different Shoreline Features Along New York’s Coasts
In recent years, coastal communities across New York State have expressed an interest in moving away from sea walls and other hardened barriers toward more “green” infrastructure to help absorb storm surges and protect coastal communities from flood risk. CBI teamed with the Science and Resilience Institute of Jamaica Bay and a range of stakeholders in developing and piloting a draft statewide monitoring framework to assess the potential of nature-based features to help coastal communities in face of rising sea levels. Read Senior Mediator Bennett Brooks’ account of the project and lessons learned about structuring a successful process on such a technical issue.
