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![Breaking Through to the Table: New Thoughts on a Perennial Problem]()
Breaking Through to the Table: New Thoughts on a Perennial Problem
December 15, 2019
CBI is employing four critical elements of its breakthrough collaboration framework – trust building, creativity, negotiation, and joint action – to support stakeholders who are facing what seem like intractable disagreements on a public issue. These ingredients are powerful catalysts for collaboration, but they beg the question: how do we get stakeholders to the table in the first place? Using a challenging case in a New Jersey community as an example, CBI Managing Directors David Fairman and Stacie Smith discuss enabling conditions and catalysts needed to bring parties together to consider the possibility of collaboration.
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Could SONGS Offer a Sightline to Solving Our Nuclear Waste Dilemma?
December 13, 2019
In its recently published book, Resolving Energy and Land Conflicts, CBI tackled one of the toughest and perhaps most intractable land use and energy dilemmas: where should we put the nuclear waste that is building up through decades of generation from our fleet of nuclear power plants? There is no licensed permanent repository for nuclear waste in the U.S., but a settlement agreement in California to relocate fuel from the decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) may offer important lessons on how to find temporary or permanent locations to store nuclear waste. In this blog post, CBI Senior Mediator Catherine Morris draws on CBI's land use and energy siting expertise to propose a roadmap for successful collaboration to address this challenge.
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Article Explores the Role of the Private Sector in Climate-Induced Relocation
October 28, 2019
In "Climigration and the Private Sector," Carri Hulet, CBI Senior Mediator, and A.R. Siders, of the University of Delaware, make the argument that the private sector “could have a role in facilitating sensible, equitable, and profitable climigration,” or relocation due to the impacts of climate change. The article was published in the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Community Development Innovation Review and highlighted in The New York Times.
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Article Explores Community Engagement and Solutions for Clean Water on Cape Cod
October 30, 2019
In "Designing solutions for clean water on Cape Cod: Engaging communities to improve decision making," Stacie Nicole Smith (CBI Managing Director), Erin S. Perry (Cape Cod Commission), and Kate K. Mulvaney (U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development) explore a case study on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to assess the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement for nutrient management. The article was published in the latest issue of Ocean and Coastal Management.
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Arlington Assessment Offers Recommendations to Repair Community Trust
September 26, 2019
Town officials from Arlington, MA, commissioned an assessment from CBI as part of a multi-step response to a town conflict at the intersection of race, intolerance, and policing. The final report offers a series of recommendations for how Arlington could come together to repair community trust and increase capacity to respond to such incidents in the future.
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We Are All in it Together: Collaborative Governance Advancing Water Management
September 24, 2019
Challenges around water management in the American West are deepening, as weather becomes more variable and, at times, severe. CBI has been working on water issues with communities in the West for a decade and has found “collaborative governance” to be a very helpful approach to bringing people together to address management of critical water resources. Collaborative water governance assumes that managing water is most effective when everyone is in support of the decision-making process and has a voice in critical issues that affect their lives and livelihoods. In this blog post, CBI West Director Gina Bartlett and CBI Senior Mediator Tania Carlone discuss the benefits and challenges of collaborative water governance in the American West.
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Reflections on a Collaborative Documentary Experiment
September 11, 2019
In early 2019, in collaboration with the Colombian Center for Responsible Business, CBI envisioned and co-produced a documentary film as a medium to give voice to the experience and concerns of community stakeholders living in the coal-mining region of Cesar, Colombia. In this blog post, CBI Senior Mediator Merrick Hoben reflects on his filmmaking experience.
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CBI Analysis for Barr Foundation Finds Three Climate Adaption Approaches for Greater Boston
September 6, 2019
The Barr Foundation worked with CBI to conduct a scan of current climate resilience work and potential opportunities in the Greater Boston region.
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CBI Mediators to Present at the Association for Conflict Resolution Annual Conference, September 18-21
September 19, 2019
CBI Senior Mediator Carri Hulet, CBI Senior Associate Laura Sneeringer, and CBI Senior Mediator Doug Thompson will be presenting at the upcoming Association for Conflict Resolution Annual Conference on September 18-21, 2019, in Tucson, Arizona.
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CBI Position Opening - Senior Manager of Accounting
August 8, 2019
The Consensus Building Institute is seeking a highly motivated professional to serve as Senior Manager of Accounting in our Cambridge, Massachusetts office.
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Summer 2019: CBI in Action
July 30, 2019
A snapshot of ongoing and recent work.
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![To Stay or Go: New Insights on Managed Retreat]()
To Stay or Go: New Insights on Managed Retreat
August 6, 2019
CBI Senior Mediator Carri Hulet shares insights on managed retreat, or relocation due to climate change, while at a recent conference at Columbia University focused on this topic. After CBI launched the Climigration Network in 2015 to encourage conversation among a small number of people who were then exploring managed retreat, Carri was pleased to witness hundreds of people at the conference discussing and innovating around retreat strategies. In this article, Carri reflects on the evolution of the climigration field of practice, recent progress, and how to grapple with the complicated emotions that accompany this challenging issue – for herself as well as millions of residents who are facing tough decisions about whether to stay or go, and how to go if that is the choice.
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