On October 9th, the Senate Government Affairs Committee approved Senate bill (S.1651), as amended, which creates the U.S. Consensus Council...
By W. Steve Lee
On July 20th, 2002 I volunteered as a facilitator (along with 499 of my colleagues) for a remarkable experiment. Organized...
By Sterling Newberry
An increasing number of people are expressing concern over the loss of civic connectedness in America. Voting, volunteerism, and participation...
By W. Steve Lee
Order at Amazon.comIn this book Carpenter and Kennedy update their original work first published in 1988. The authors propose the...
By Jon Linden
A developer I work with finds the typical land use approval process so grueling and disruptive that he has, at...
By Sean F. Nolon
A National Center for Automated Information Research (NCAIR) Conference Presentation Washington, DC May 22, 1996Table of Contents Introduction History Modes...
By Henry H. Perritt, Jr.
Click here to read full report in PDF format Preface This effort represents ideas gathered from more than a hundred...
By Connie Ozawa, Emily Rudin, Peter Adler, Robert Barrett
Funded by the South Carolina Sustainable Universities InitiativeIntroduction Amidst all of the recent dialogue in South Carolina over sustainable communities...
By Sean Blacklocke
This article originally appeared in the January 1998 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...
By John Harrison
Used with permission of the Institute of Government, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously published in Public...
By John B. Stephens
This article originally appeared in the July 1997 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...
By Charles Pou, Jr.
INTRODUCTION: Until recently, land use mediation at any level has been comparatively infrequent. While the success of multi-party public policy...
By J. Richard Forester
This essay was written in recognition of the tenth Anniversary of the Program for Community Problem Solving. October 1999 Collaborative...
By William R. Potapchuk
Another place - another time - another violent conflict - but haunting parallels. In the 70's and 80's it was...
By Paul Wahrhaftig
Mediation policy-making appears to be a growth industry. Numerous legislatures, state courts, agencies, membership organizations and other institutions are occupied...
By Dorothy J. Della Noce
"This article originally appeared in the April 1999 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...
By Jennifer Thomas-Larmer
This article originally appeared in the January 1999 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...
By Jennifer Thomas-Larmer
This article originally appeared in the January 1999 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...
By David Fairman
Dedication Foreword Consensus Processes Why? What do we mean? Using them Guiding Principles of Consensus Processes Key Steps in Consensus...
By Managing Editor
"This article originally appeared in the July 1998 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...
By Jennifer Thomas-Larmer
This article originally appeared in the July 1998 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...
By Michelle LeBaron, Nike Carstarphen
To amend the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992...
By Managing Editor
Mediation can be a powerful tool for settling disputes. The recent Teamsters strike at UPS was settled with the assistance...
By Norm Brand
This article originally appeared in the April 1997 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...
By Managing Editor
