Category: Public Policy

Do you remember how Dorothy meets Glinda in the Wizard of Oz? After Dorothy kills the Wicked Witch of the...

This article was inspired by an enlightening conversation about the interface between politics and mediation held on January 23, 2003...

On October 9th, the Senate Government Affairs Committee approved Senate bill (S.1651), as amended, which creates the U.S. Consensus Council...

On July 20th, 2002 I volunteered as a facilitator (along with 499 of my colleagues) for a remarkable experiment. Organized...

An increasing number of people are expressing concern over the loss of civic connectedness in America. Voting, volunteerism, and participation...

Order at Amazon.comIn this book Carpenter and Kennedy update their original work first published in 1988. The authors propose the...

A developer I work with finds the typical land use approval process so grueling and disruptive that he has, at...

A National Center for Automated Information Research (NCAIR) Conference Presentation Washington, DC May 22, 1996Table of Contents Introduction History Modes...

Click here to read full report in PDF format Preface This effort represents ideas gathered from more than a hundred...

Funded by the South Carolina Sustainable Universities InitiativeIntroduction Amidst all of the recent dialogue in South Carolina over sustainable communities...

This article originally appeared in the January 1998 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...

Used with permission of the Institute of Government, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously published in Public...

This article originally appeared in the July 1997 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...

INTRODUCTION: Until recently, land use mediation at any level has been comparatively infrequent. While the success of multi-party public policy...

This essay was written in recognition of the tenth Anniversary of the Program for Community Problem Solving. October 1999 Collaborative...

Another place - another time - another violent conflict - but haunting parallels. In the 70's and 80's it was...

Mediation policy-making appears to be a growth industry. Numerous legislatures, state courts, agencies, membership organizations and other institutions are occupied...

"This article originally appeared in the April 1999 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...

This article originally appeared in the January 1999 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...

This article originally appeared in the January 1999 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...

Dedication Foreword Consensus Processes Why? What do we mean? Using them Guiding Principles of Consensus Processes Key Steps in Consensus...

This article originally appeared in the July 1998 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...

"This article originally appeared in the July 1998 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...

To amend the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992...

Mediation can be a powerful tool for settling disputes. The recent Teamsters strike at UPS was settled with the assistance...

This article originally appeared in the April 1997 issue of Consensus, a newspaper published jointly by the Consensus Building Institute...