Environmental Negotiation Training in Bulgaria/Hungary

In close collaboration with Partners for Democratic Change, CONCUR designed and a series of training courses on environmental negotiation in Nosvaj, Hungary, Bourgas, Bulgaria and Haskovo, Bulgaria. The courses were designed to introduce senior government officials and NGO leaders in these newly democratic countries to alternative styles of mediation, to demonstrate how to create credible auspices for a mediation, and to build greater legitimacy in the participatory decision-making process. Course participants included members of the Hungarian parliament, government cabinet members, regional environmental enforcement officers, members of the NGO Ecoglasnost, and regional planners and architects.