Community Dispute Resolution Role-Play:

Open Lands A Private Planning Negotiation

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Patrick Field, Ric Richardson, and John Harrison

Eight-person facilitated negotiation among seven landowners to develop voluntary private land-use plan to provide financial security while preserving open space and agricultural land

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Please note: you must order a copy (a.k.a. license/usage fee) for every person participating in the simulation in your course. This simulation has multiple roles, so you will be unable to complete your purchase without meeting the minimum quantity requirement of copies per role.

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To order multiple copies of a role simulation for use in a course or workshop, simply enter the total number of participants in the box next to “Quantity.” There is no need to calculate how many of each role is required.

If you are ordering hard copies, the Teaching Negotiation Resource Center will calculate the appropriate numbers of each role to provide, based on the total number of participants. For example, if you wish to order a 2-party role simulation for use with a class of 30 students, you would enter “30” in the box next to “Quantity.” You then would receive 15 copies of one role and 15 copies of the other role, for use with your 30 participants. As another example, if you ordered 30 participant copies of a 6-party role simulation, you would receive 5 copies of each role.

In the event that the number of participant copies you order is not evenly divisible by the number of roles in the simulation, you will receive extra copies of one or more roles. Participants receiving the extra roles may partner with other participants playing the same role, thus negotiating as a team. So, for instance, if you ordered 31 copies of a 2-party role simulation, you would receive 15 copies of the first role and 16 copies of the second role. One of the participants playing the second role would partner with another participant playing that same role, and the two would negotiate as a team.

Bulk Pricing Discount

For bulk orders, we offer the following pricing discounts. Please note that these only apply to bulk orders of the same simulation.

  • Between 100-250 copies – 10% discount
  • Between 251-500 copies – 25% discount
  • More than 500 copies – 50% discount
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SCENARIO:

Home Valley is in the rural American West where ranching, hunting, fishing, and other outdoor recreations are the norm. Many changes are threatening the valley's traditional life. Newcomers are buying up the land, forcing up real estate prices, and making it more difficult to keep the land in agricultural production. The new land development often does not respect the wide open spaces and privacy of traditional land uses. Many ranchers' children are moving away, not interested in the financial risk and endless hard work that ranching entails. Some say that elk, deer, antelope, and other game habitats are shrinking in the face of the boom.

This negotiation is among seven local landowners, aided by a facilitator, who have gathered to develop a private land use plan. This effort does not involve government intervention or regulation. It would be a strictly voluntary agreement aimed at providing financial security while preserving open space and agricultural land.

The two main issues are the location of potential development in the valley, and the number of developable parcels per owner. In addition, each of the parties has a number of "tradable" items that they either want to secure from, or trade to, another party. These include viewsheds, hunting rights, grazing/haying leases, conservation easements, money, developable units, and trusts and partnerships.

This simulation offers participants a low-stakes, non-personalized, experiential means to explore the notion of private land use planning. At the very least, participants should gain a heightened awareness of how private negotiation among landowners can be applied in the real-life situations that many Western landowners are facing today.

 

MAJOR LESSONS:

Participants should gain a heightened awareness of how private negotiation among landowners can be applied in the real-life situations that many Western landowners are facing today. Key learning topics include private land planning, brokering common as well as individual agreements, integrating numerous parties' multiple interests into a shared agreement, coalition formation, and facilitation.

 

MECHANICS:

Facilities needed:

Large room with table with seating for 8. Flipchart, marker, large scale map of home valley, calculator.

Space for private breakouts.

 

Estimated Time Requirements:

Reading and preparation: 60 minutes

Negotiation: 120 minutes

Debrief: 50 minutes

Written evaluation: 10 minutes

Total: 4 hours

 

TEACHING MATERIALS:

Teacher's Package (65 pages total) includes:

  • General Instructions
  • Confidential Instructions for landowner neighbors: L. Wealth, R. Hunt, C. County, P. Rights, L. Eagle, E. Taxes, and M. Sell; and for facilitator L. Trust
  • Teaching Note

 

KEYWORDS:

Land use dispute resolution; agricultural negotiations; regional policy disputes; mobilization of civil society

Open Lands Attributes

Time required: 2-3 hours
Number of participants: 8
Teams involved: No
Agent present: None
Neutral third party present: Facilitator
Scoreable: Yes
Teaching notes available: Yes