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The Environment & Public Policy Section is committed to keeping its members informed and involved in the field. One way we do this is through our newsletters. Please click on any of the following links to read our newsletters.
December 2006 Newsletter.pdf
The Keystone Conference
Consolidating Our Collective Wisdom: Best Counsel and Advice to the Next Generation
by Carolyn Penny
Imagine, for a moment, facilitating the facilitators.
One hundred and six senior mediators and facilitators, including a number of EPP practitioners, gathered at Keystone, Colorado from October 8 to 11, 2006. The gathering, titled “Consolidating Our Collective Wisdom: Best Counsel and Advice to the Next Generation,” was hosted by The Keystone Center and Mediate.com, with particular involvement by Peter Adler, Robert Benjamin, and Jim Melamed. . . .
EPP Section Endorses Administration Efforts in ECR
New Federal ECR Policy Taking Off
by Kirk Emerson
On November 28, 2005, Joshua Bolten, then Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and James Connaughton, Chairman of the President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), issued a policy memorandum on environmental conflict resolution (ECR). This joint policy statement directs all federal departments and most independent agencies to increase the effective use of ECR and their institutional capacity for collaborative problem solving. . . .
EPP Section Supports ECR Policy Memo
by Cindy Cook and Michael Elliott
At the ACR EPP Section meeting in June 2006, members discussed the OMB and CEQ’s policy memorandum on environmental conflict resolution (described above in an article by Kirk Emerson). EPP members agreed that the memo was based on sound collaboration and consensus building definitions and principles. On November 9, 2006, we sent all EPP members a memorandum that outlined activities that you can undertake to help advance the joint policy statement and the use of ECR in federal government. . . .
EPP 2006 Conference Follow-Up
An Introduction to Dialogue, Deliberation, & Deliberative Democracy
by Lisa Bedinger
The EPP Section’s June 2006 conference provided an introduction to the world of Deliberative Democracy for many of the practitioners in attendance. Many EPP Section members found that their work has a strong overlap and commonalities with the work of practitioners in the dialogue and deliberation (D&D) field. . . .
Section News
EPP Leadership Council Election Results
Congratulations to the following members whom you recently elected as At-Large Members of the EPP Leadership Council . . .
Transitions
CDR Associates in Transition
by Forsyth Kineon
This is another in an occasional series of stories about trends in the conflict resolution field. The present topic is leadership transition – from the founders to a new generation of leaders – in some of the major environmental and public policy dispute resolution organizations. . . . This year, we examine a 28-year-old Rocky Mountain organization founded by four partners with a mutual vision. By sharing the experiences these organizations underwent, we hope to assist others as they embark upon similar transitions. . . .
Getting Started In The Field
Passion for the Process
by Christine Gyovai
I was 19, living in northern California, and involved in a work exchange program at the Heartwood Institute when I took my first mediation training course. After an active listening exercise with a close friend following the training, I experienced how powerful it was to really feel heard. I was hooked from that point on. . . .
Trends
Maxwell School of Syracuse University Holds Conference on Collaborative Public Management
How does collaborative public management change what it means to be a leader? The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University (SU) recently sponsored a three-day conference in Washington, DC, to consider this topic and its implications for the future of public administration. . . .
News You Can Use
EPP Members Publish Report on Facilitating Brownfields Projects
EPA provided support to a dozen brownfields projects across the country to find out if facilitation works. The answer is a resounding “yes.” The experiences at the pilot sites are described in “Evaluating the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfields Facilitation Pilot Projects,” by EPP Co-Chair Michael Elliott and EPP member Greg Bourne. . . .
Research Corner
Negotiating High Stakes Water Conflicts: Lessons Learned From Experienced Practitioners (2003)
by Stephen E. Snyder
In an effort to understand the human dynamics at work in a difficult and contentious water negotiation, the Natural Resources Law Center of the University of Colorado Law School convened two workshops of persons with extensive experience in such negotiations. . . .The goals of the two workshops were the same: to understand why water conflicts are so difficult to resolve by negotiation and to develop some practical guidelines for how to organize and conduct a difficult water negotiation. . . .
Newsletter Issues
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We would like to know if the EPP newsletter is meeting your needs and if you have suggestions for improvement. . . .
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In this edition of the EPP Section Newsletter …
Member Profile
Co-Chair Cindy Cook: Looking for Synergy, Inclusiveness, and Fun in EPP
By Ed Moreno
Cindy Cook’s profile seems a classic formula for Environment and Public Policy Section membership: Family and professional background in public policy; service as a state regulator; inspired by a mediation course; principal of Adamant Accord, Inc., a dispute resolution service that provides mediation and facilitation services; and adjunct professor in a new ADR program at the local law school. . . .
EPP Section News
ACR Environment and Public Policy Section Conference, June 28–30, 2006 in Boston
By Harry Manasewich
The Environmental and Public Policy Section is gearing up for what promises to be an enlightening and fun three-day conference June 28 - 30, 2006, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. . . .
First Participants in EPP Section’s Diversity Mentoring/Coaching Pilot Project
By Catherine McCracken
Thanks to the hard work of a number of EPP Section members, the Diversity Mentoring/Coaching Pilot Project (DMPP) is underway. The DMPP matches senior environmental third party interveners in formal mentoring relationships with third party interveners from under-represented racial and ethnic backgrounds (learning partners) who have dispute resolution experience in other substantive areas. . . .
EPP Professional Development Strategy Team
By Carolyn Penny
The EPP Professional Development Strategy Team is well on its way to developing strategies for the EPP section to increase opportunities for professional development. . . .
Trends
Promoting Public Policy Facilitation: Some Lessons Learned in Maryland
By Ramona Buck
The Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office, housed within the state judiciary, promotes and supports alternative dispute resolution in the courts, schools, communities, criminal and juvenile justice systems, business and local and state governments.
Through its work over the past five years, by funding and supporting various public policy facilitation and mediation projects, we have had the opportunity to view the situation before the facilitation starts, and after it ends, and to reflect upon lessons learned. Here are three: . . .
EPP Section Report
Letter to a New EPP Practitioner: Finding Your Niche in EPP
By Robin Harkless
Just a few months into my professional involvement with public policy and environmental mediation, a colleague asked, “So, how’d YOU get in?” I was taken aback, feeling as though I had been asked how I sneaked into an exclusive club or unwittingly entered a secret society. . . .
Reports
Reports for Grantmakers on Community Development, Collaborative Democracy, and Environmental Conflict Resolution
By John Stephens
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation concluded twenty years of making grants in the conflict resolution field with three reports of interest to grantmakers and individuals or organizations seeking financial support. All are listed at http://www.hewlett.org/ECRguide.htm.
Following is an overview of each report. . . .
News You Can Use
Dates and Places
§ The American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section Conference is April 5-8, 2006, in Atlanta, GA. See the details at www.abanet.org. . . .
What do you like about this issue of the Newsletter, or the EPP Newsletter in general?
What would you change about this issue of the Newsletter, or the EPP Newsletter in general?
Send your comments to the EPP Communications Committee Chair, Mary Orton, mary@maryorton.com.
To read the entire Newsletter, click here.
Member Profile
Co-Chair Cindy Cook: Looking for Synergy, Inclusiveness, and Fun in EPP
By Ed Moreno
Cindy Cook’s profile seems a classic formula for Environment and Public Policy Section membership: Family and professional background in public policy; service as a state regulator; inspired by a mediation course; principal of Adamant Accord, Inc., a dispute resolution service that provides mediation and facilitation services; and adjunct professor in a new ADR program at the local law school. . . .
EPP Section News
ACR Environment and Public Policy Section Conference, June 28–30, 2006 in Boston
By Harry Manasewich
The Environmental and Public Policy Section is gearing up for what promises to be an enlightening and fun three-day conference June 28 - 30, 2006, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. . . .
First Participants in EPP Section’s Diversity Mentoring/Coaching Pilot Project
By Catherine McCracken
Thanks to the hard work of a number of EPP Section members, the Diversity Mentoring/Coaching Pilot Project (DMPP) is underway. The DMPP matches senior environmental third party interveners in formal mentoring relationships with third party interveners from under-represented racial and ethnic backgrounds (learning partners) who have dispute resolution experience in other substantive areas. . . .
EPP Professional Development Strategy Team
By Carolyn Penny
The EPP Professional Development Strategy Team is well on its way to developing strategies for the EPP section to increase opportunities for professional development. . . .
Trends
Promoting Public Policy Facilitation: Some Lessons Learned in Maryland
By Ramona Buck
The Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office, housed within the state judiciary, promotes and supports alternative dispute resolution in the courts, schools, communities, criminal and juvenile justice systems, business and local and state governments.
Through its work over the past five years, by funding and supporting various public policy facilitation and mediation projects, we have had the opportunity to view the situation before the facilitation starts, and after it ends, and to reflect upon lessons learned. Here are three: . . .
EPP Section Report
Letter to a New EPP Practitioner: Finding Your Niche in EPP
By Robin Harkless
Just a few months into my professional involvement with public policy and environmental mediation, a colleague asked, “So, how’d YOU get in?” I was taken aback, feeling as though I had been asked how I sneaked into an exclusive club or unwittingly entered a secret society. . . .
Reports
Reports for Grantmakers on Community Development, Collaborative Democracy, and Environmental Conflict Resolution
By John Stephens
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation concluded twenty years of making grants in the conflict resolution field with three reports of interest to grantmakers and individuals or organizations seeking financial support. All are listed at http://www.hewlett.org/ECRguide.htm.
Following is an overview of each report. . . .
News You Can Use
Dates and Places
§ The American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section Conference is April 5-8, 2006, in Atlanta, GA. See the details at www.abanet.org. . . .
What do you like about this issue of the Newsletter, or the EPP Newsletter in general?
Send your comments to the EPP Communications Committee Chair, Mary Orton, mary@maryorton.com.
To read the entire Newsletter, click here.
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