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British Land-Use Mediation Scheme Threatens To ‘Make Things Worse’ author.

British Land-Use Mediation Scheme Threatens To ‘Make Things Worse’

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

By John Harrison
Using A Mediator In Public Disputes author.

Using A Mediator In Public Disputes

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

By John B. Stephens
Rise Of Rosters For Policy Cases Raises New Issues author.

Rise Of Rosters For Policy Cases Raises New Issues

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

By Charles Pou, Jr.
Mediating Land Use Cases author.

Mediating Land Use Cases

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
Moving From Collaborative Processes To Collaborative Communities – Building Our Agenda author.

Moving From Collaborative Processes To Collaborative Communities – Building Our Agenda

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

By William R. Potapchuk
Finding A Way Out Of Yugoslavia: Lessons From MOVE author.

Finding A Way Out Of Yugoslavia: Lessons From MOVE

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

By Paul Wahrhaftig
Mediation Policy: Theory Matters author.

Mediation Policy: Theory Matters

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
Best  Practices: When A Convenor Takes Too Much Control Of The Process . . . author.

Best Practices: When A Convenor Takes Too Much Control Of The Process . . .

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

By Jennifer Thomas-Larmer
Evaluating Consensus Building Efforts: According To Whom? And Based On What? author.

Evaluating Consensus Building Efforts: According To Whom? And Based On What?

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

By David Fairman
Best Practices: A Participant Accuses You Of Taking Sides… author.

Best Practices: A Participant Accuses You Of Taking Sides…

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

By Jennifer Thomas-Larmer
Building Consensus for a Sustainable Future author.

Building Consensus for a Sustainable Future

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

By Managing Editor
Getting Reluctant Stakeholders To The Table: Experienced Mediators Share Insights author.

Getting Reluctant Stakeholders To The Table: Experienced Mediators Share Insights

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

By Jennifer Thomas-Larmer
Pro-life And Pro-Choice Advocates Seek To Bridge The Great Divide author.

Pro-life And Pro-Choice Advocates Seek To Bridge The Great Divide

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
Environmental Policy and Conflict Resolution Act of 1998 author.

Environmental Policy and Conflict Resolution Act of 1998

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

By Managing Editor
Using Mediation Effectively author.

Using Mediation Effectively

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

By Norm Brand
Guidelines For Using Collaborative Agreement-Seeking Processes author.

Guidelines For Using Collaborative Agreement-Seeking Processes

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

By Managing Editor

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