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What’s Happening in the Field of Urban Planning?
The MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning is one of 72 university departments in North America that offers a professional (MCP) degree in urban…
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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 teams representing various…
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(Bi-partisan) Legislative Decision-making
Originally posted: January 6th 2009 Credit Pablo Martinez Monsivais We’ve all heard the calls for greater bi-partisanship in Congress and Parliament. Especially in times of…
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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, a majority vote by…
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Natural Resource Management
Originally posted: January 3rd, 2009 Consensus building can be applied in all kinds of natural resource management disputes. Even in the face of competing demands,…
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Artists As New Partners in Community Development
My daughter, Lily, described to me how she feels as an artist when urban developers use her as a way to gain attention for their…
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Winning at Win-Win Negotiation
One of my colleagues is quite upset that I have been talking about winning at win-win negotiation. He views the inclusion of this idea in…
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What’s the right thing to do when you are really angry about what’s happening in America?
Students are marching in the streets to protest the recent killings of Black Americans. They want those in positions of power to acknowledge that these…
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Retire Already! Why?
In a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Laurie Fendrich, a professor of drawing and painting at Hofstra University, charged that anyone who holds…
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What is a Devising Seminar? And how is it being used to address the risks facing Arctic Fisheries?
Arctic sea ice is retreating. This is creating new opportunities to explore and traverse the Central Arctic Ocean, north of the Arctic Circle. Some countries,…
The Consensus Building Approach
Larry Susskind is Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT and Vice-Chair of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. His blog reports on the way consensus building and negotiation tools are being used to ensure more democratic decision-making. Larry is also founder and chief knowledge officer of the Consensus Building Institute.
