Resources
298 Resources found
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A New Website for CBI
Explaining and exploring our new website.
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Unique Partnership Fosters Innovation on Tough National Issues
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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Envisioning a Better Tomorrow for Yemen
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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Consensus Building When Democracy Hits a Rough Patch
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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Engaging Stakeholders in Northeast Regional Ocean Planning
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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Brokering Agreements in Tough Natural Resources Disputes
How professional facilitation can help resolve natural resource challenges
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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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Voces De San Marcos (English subtitles)
In this video, CBI documents its work with a start-up energy company in northern Chile and the local fishing community on strategies for addressing community concerns about the pumped energy storage project that the company is seeking to build, and on building constructive longer-term relationships.
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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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Joint Fact-Finding in Urban Planning and Environmental Disputes
In this chapter, Larry Susskind, Pat Field, and Griffin Smith introduce joint fact-finding, or JFF, a process used to develop a common pool of information that is acceptable to all stakeholders. Using an example of a Mongolian mining process, the authors explain the steps involved in a JFF effort.
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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.
