consensus building

A process involving a good-faith effort to meet the interests of all stakeholders seeking unanimous agreement. (Lawrence E. Susskind, Sarah McKearnan and Jennifer Thomas-Larmer, The Consensus Building Handbook, [Sage Publications, 1999], 6)

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Consensus Building Institute

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Consensus Building Institute

238 Main Street, Suite 400
Cambridge, MA 02142
617-492-1414; Fax: 617-492-1919
CBI@cbuilding.org
www.cbuilding.org

Managing Directors: David Fairman and Patrick Field
Founder and Senior Advisor: Lawrence Susskind

Contact: Ed Minor
617-844-1113
eminor@cbuilding.org

The Consensus Building Institute (CBI) is a not-for-profit organization that provides dispute resolution services and undertakes dispute systems analysis and design activities for public agencies in the United States and overseas. CBI’s

Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution

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Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution

University of Massachusetts, Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
McCormack Bldg. 1st Floor, Room 627
Boston, MA 02125
617-287-4040; fax: 617-287-4049
www.umb.edu/modr

Executive Director: Susan M. Jeghelian
susan.jeghelian@umb.edu

Deputy Director: Loraine M. Della Porta
loraine.dellaporta@umb.edu

The Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution & Public Collaboration (MODR), formerly a state agency, is now a free-standing institute of the University of Massachusetts Boston. MODR’s mission is

The M.I.T.-Harvard Public Disputes Program

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The M.I.T.-Harvard Public Disputes Program

512 Pound Hall
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA 02138

Managing Directors: David Fairman and Patrick Field
Founder and Senior Advisor: Lawrence Susskind

Contact: Ed Minor
617-844-1113
eminor@cbuilding.org

The Public Disputes Program (PDP) seeks to bring together scholars and professionals to improve the practice of negotiation, mediation, and conflict management in the public sector. The Program undertakes basic and applied

Harvard Law School Spotlight on Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program

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Harvard Law School’s News Office recently interviewed Harvard Law School’s Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) students and faculty about three of the projects on which they worked during the Spring of 2009.
Click here to read the entire interview http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/clinical-practice/clinic.html
Harvard Law School’s Negotiation & Mediation Clinical

The Consensus Building Approach to Dealing With Town Hall Disruptions

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The debate over how to reform health care has quickly become volatile and often unproductive, with the media focusing on who brings the largest group of shouting protesters.

Professor Lawrence Susskind of the Program on Negotiation and the Consensus Building Institute outlines in his blog how to use a consensus building approach to improve the level

Negotiating the Toughest Challenges in U.S.-Muslim Relations: From Peace in the Middle East to Talks with the Taliban

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Join the Program on Negotiation for a discussion on major challenges facing the U.S. as it tries to improve relations with key Muslim countries embroiled in regional conflicts. Key questions include whether and how to negotiate with armed non-state groups, how to engage effectively with fractious and failing governments, and how to manage influential constituencies

Public Dispute Resolution

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The quality of our democracy presumably rests on the deliberations we are able to promote and sustain among individuals and groups with contending interests and views. The responsiveness of our elected and appointed officials also presumably hinges on our ability to involve a wide range of stakeholders in policy-making and a range of

consensus

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An agreement among all participating stakeholders. (Lawrence E. Susskind, Sarah McKearnan and Jennifer Thomas-Larmer, Consensus Building Handbook [Sage Publications, 1999], 327)

The Cure for Our Broken Political Process: How We Can Get Our Politicians to Resolve the Issues Tearing Our Country Apart

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Record numbers of Americans fear that our political process is broken—for good reason. Our nation faces unprecedented challenges, yet our politicians spend most of their energy attacking one another. All the while, no one in public life has offered a practical way to neutralize the bitter partisanship that paralyzes Washington.

The Cure for Our Broken Political