The Consensus Building Approach

Tue, 01/21/2014

What is sustainable city development?

Our team has spent the last two weeks in Malaysia, moving from city to city, meeting with public officials, private developers, civil society...

Wed, 01/01/2014

Natural Resource Management

Originally posted: January 3rd, 2009

Consensus building can be applied in all kinds of natural resource management...

Wed, 01/01/2014

An Online University? Are you Crazy?

Originally Posted: April 7, 2013

I wish some of the people who are so excited about the prospect of online college courses...

Wed, 01/01/2014

International Treaty Negotiation

Originally posted: January 5th 2009

International treaty-making is one area in which consensus building is the rule.  Because countries are sovereign...

Wed, 01/01/2014

Participatory Action Research (PAR) vs. Applied Social Science as We Know It

Originally posted: May 28th, 2013

There are a number of authors like Bent Flyvbjerg who have done a...

Wed, 01/01/2014

Learning from Malaysia, Learning In Malaysia

Originally Posted: June 22nd, 2013

I am pleased to be part of the five year Sustainable Cities Partnership that...

Wed, 01/01/2014

Management of Corporate Teams

Originally posted: January 11th, 2009

While a great deal of corporate decision-making is top-down, there are occasions when task forces or work...

Wed, 01/01/2014

What To Do in a Risky and Uncertain World

Originally posted: July 31st, 2013

Have you ever noticed that all the writing about risk perception and risk...

Wed, 01/01/2014

Advanced Negotiation Training

Originally Posted: August 21st, 2013

The Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School (...

Wed, 01/01/2014

Why don't judges just settle legal disputes?

Originally Posted: December 7th, 2013

In some Canadian provinces, they take what is called Judicial Dispute Resolution (JDR)...