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    Advice for Peace: Ending Civil War in Colombia

    Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his Peace Advisory Team discuss the Colombian peace process negotiations with the FARC guerrillas, explain what happened behind closed doors, and distill what lessons can be carried forward for resolving future conflicts.
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    Boston Busing Role PlayWorkable Peace: Civil Rights and Integration in the United States

    Melissa Manwaring, under the direction of David Fairman and Stacie Nicole Smith
    Six-party, multi-issue negotiation among governmental, organizational, and family stakeholders regarding the implementation of court-ordered racial integration measures in Boston public schools and possible improvements in education and community relations
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    Changing Times for the Senior Center in Redwood Hills

    Connie Ozawa
    Multi-party, multi-issue facilitated negotiation for five or six players representing civic and business leaders and owner of a senior center regarding the expansion of other groups' use of the center
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    Chestnut Drive

    Bruce Patton and Mark Gordon
    Six-party, multi-issue, intra-group negotiation among neighbors in preparation for an external negotiation regarding a local construction project
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    Chestnut Village

    Thomas Wiegand
    Multi-party, multi-issue negotiation between 3-4 construction company representatives and 5-6 neighborhood representatives over safety and nuisance complaints regarding a local construction project; internal team meetings precede external negotiations
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    Coastal Flooding and Climate-Related Risks in Launton

    Seven-person, multi-issue facilitated negotiation among local government, community, business, and environmental representatives trying to reach agreement on a strategy for managing climate change risks in a small, beachfront community.
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    Coastal Flooding in ShorehamResponding to Climate Change Risks

    Seven-person, multi-issue facilitated negotiation among local government, community, business, and environmental representatives trying to reach agreement on a strategy for managing climate change risks in a medium-sized coastal community
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    Construction in Bunyonville

    Bruce Patton
    Six-person, multi-issue mediation between two construction company representatives and two neighborhood residents over a construction project's safety and noise issues; mediated by two representatives of the bank financing the construction
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    Deliberative Democracy Meets Dispute ResolutionReflections and Insights from the 2005 Workshop on Deliberative Democracy and Dispute Resolution, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Carri Hulet (producer), under the supervision of Lawrence Susskind

    Highlights of dialogue from a two-day workshop on deliberative democracy and dispute resolution approaches to civic engagement
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    Development Dispute at Menehune Bay

    Lawrence Susskind, Thomas Dinell, and Vicki Shook
    Six-party, multi-issue, facilitated negotiation of a dispute over environmental issues, native rights, and commercial development interests in Hawaii
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    Development Negotiations in the Project Review Process

    John Forester
    Two-party, three-issue, scoreable negotiation between a developer and a city planner over the design, process, and affordability of a proposed housing development
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    Dioxin – Waste to Energy Game

    Denise Madigan, Steve Foster, and Lawrence Susskind
    Six-party, multi-issue negotiation among four scientists, a city representative, and an environmentalist to develop the city's solid waste management strategy; also known as: Dioxin: Resource Recovery.
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    DirtyStuff I

    Lawrence Susskind
    Five-person, multi-issue facilitated negotiation among industry, environmental, labor, and government representatives to develop single-text regulation of toxic industrial by-product
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    DirtyStuff II

    Jeffrey Litwak and Lawrence Susskind
    Six-person, multi-issue facilitated negotiation among industry, environmental, consumer/community, labor, and government representatives to develop single-text regulation of toxic industrial by-product
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    East Falls Brownfields

    Tracy Dyke, under the direction of Lawrence Susskind and Susan Podziba
    Seven-person, non-scoreable, facilitated negotiation among planners, regulators and activists regarding the cleanup and redevelopment of environmentally contaminated property
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    Escalation of a Conflict

    Jeffrey Z. Rubin (featured) and Lavinia Hall

    A videotaped lecture featuring former PON Executive Director Jeffrey Z. Rubin discussing the elements involved in the development of a conflict, including theories on interdependence and escalation