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305 Resources found
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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.
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To Retreat or Not Retreat? That is Not Even a Question.
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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Natural Resources on Indigenous Lands, and the Growing Transparency Movement
CBI publishes a report on how increasing transparency globally around extractive industries might affect Indigenous Peoples.
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Preliminary Inquiry into Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in EITI Multi-Stakeholder Groups
Throughout the world, Indigenous Peoples have historically suffered disproportionately from negative impacts of extractive activities in their territories. The global transparency movement has the potential to play a part in righting the past by supporting Indigenous Peoples’ greater participation in resource decision-making.
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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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Consensus Building, Negotiation, and Conflict Resolution for Heritage Place Management
Based on a CBI-Getty Conservation Institute workshop on consensus building for management of heritage places, this report shows how consensus building approaches can help heritage managers address stakeholder concerns, build on complementary and shared interests and values, and make management plans and decisions more sustainable.
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AsiaLink Business Briefs: Japan
Even at the best of times, negotiation is tricky business. Negotiating cross-culturally adds another layer of challenges with misunderstandings potentially derailing the process. Here's CBI's primer for successfully negotiating with Japanese counterparts.
