Archive for 'Briefings & Presentations' Category

John Gamman Presentation at Fulbright Conference

CONCUR Principal and Senior Mediator John Gamman gave a presentation at the Fulbright Academy of Science and Technology Sustainability Conference in San Francisco on March 12.  The conference was attended by Fulbright scholars and practitioners from many countries.  The topic of John’s presentation was “How Collaboration Can Promote Environmental Sustainability“.  Dr. Gamman was appointed as [...]

“Conflict Resolution Day” Presentation at EPA Region 2

CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary and Senior Associate Bennett Brooks gave a presentation October 15, 2009, to attorneys and program staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2, the regional office covering New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The presentation, organized by Region 2 ADR coordinator Joseph Siegel to [...]

Guest Lecture at MBARI - July 8, 2009

On July 8, 2009, CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary presented a guest lecture to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) entitled “Mediated Negotiation and Joint Fact-Finding: Can They Help Propel Wise Marine Policy Decisions?” About 30 researchers in fields ranging from marine biology to marine technology attended the talk. Scott addressed the application of joint [...]

Lecture at New York University (January 2009)

Senior Associate Bennett Brooks served as a guest lecturer at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service in January 2009. Bennett spoke on consensus building techniques and challenges in the graduate-level course, “Designing a Conflict Management Program for a Public Dispute: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Multi-Party Negotiations and Consensus Building, Policy Dialogues“.

Scott McCreary - Adjunct Professor at Vermont Law School (2006-2008)

CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary was an Adjunct Professor at Vermont Law School from 2006-2008.  He co-taught the course “Mediating Land Use, Water, and Marine Resource Disputes” with co-instructor Cindy Cook at Vermont Law School in the summers of 2006, 2007, and 2008. Students in the course include candidates for the JD, Master’s Studies in Environmental [...]

UC Davis School of Law 2008 Seminar Series

On September 25, 2008, Scott McCreary gave a brown bag presentation at UC Davis Law School on environmental conflict resolution. UC Davis Law School is now activley building its program in alternative dispute resolution. He covered the development of the field of EDR/ECR, CONCUR’s theory of practice, and case studies of CONCUR’s work on the [...]

USIECR 2008 Conference

At the May 2008 National Conference convened by the US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, in Tucson, Arizona, Scott McCreary teamed with colleagues Mike Harty, Meg Caldwell, and John Kirlin on A panel titled “Blue Ribbon” Decision Making in California: Using Authority, Science and Stakeholder Facilitation.
The session explored the use of a “Blue Ribbon Task [...]

Presentation at the 2007 Comparative Public Conflict Resolution conference in Asia

In November 2007, Scott McCreary was one of two US contributors to an international workshop in Seoul, Korea entitled “Comparative Public Conflict Resolution: Development of public policy consensus building in theory and practice in Asia“.  Scott presented his paper “Reflecting on Experiences of Introducing Western Dispute Resolution Techniques: Trial Innovation and Adaptive Learning“. The convenor [...]

Guest Lecture at UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy (2006)

In November 2006, Scott McCreary presented a guest lecture “Environmental Mediation: Perspectives from a Reflexive Practitioner” to graduate students in the Negotiation course at UC Berkeley’s Master in Public Policy Program. Among the top-ranked programs in the country, the Goldman School of Public Policy embraces the realms of both domestic and international policy and prepares [...]

Guest Lecture at Cal State University Monterey Bay, Graduate Seminar in Coastal Watershed Science and Policy (2006)

In October 2006, CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary presented a guest lecture on his facilitation of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative Central Coast Project at a graduate seminar at California State University Monterey Bay. His talk examined key process choices made and their relationships to outcomes achieved in the Central Coast study area, which culminated [...]