Environmental Dispute Resolution

Catalog description

Dispute resolution is a skill that one continues to master throughout one’s professional life. This course will introduce the basics of how to address multi-issue, multi-stakeholder environmental disputes. Students learn how to map the complexity of such disputes and the shared connections and values. Specific skills to be addressed include: identifying invested stakeholders, getting stakeholders to the table, setting ground rules, negotiating in good faith, facilitation vs. mediation, how to use caucuses (private discussions) to move an agenda forward and building consensus.