Senior Mediator Panel – University of Oregon Environmental Dispute Resolution Course

In February 2012, CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary served on a Panel of Senior Mediators moderated by Steve Greenwood and John Hummel at the University of Oregon Law School.  The topics addressed included the professional pathways that lead to careers in environmental mediation, emerging capacities for new practitioners, and the engagement of environmental justice issues in the context of professional work.   Scott highlighted cases including review of a proposed aluminum smelter project in Trinidad and the Humboldt Watersheds Independent Scientific Review. The presentation also highlighted the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement in Seattle, Washington, a project in which CONCUR played a key strategic advising role to structure a conflict resolution process to break an eight-year impasse.