Archives by Tag 'cross-cultural'
A New CONCUR White Paper - Some Observations from Our Mediated Cases: How Organizations and Relationships Can Transform to Implement New Environmental Policies
To document and learn from the variety of cases we facilitate and mediate, we at CONCUR regularly publish working papers, journal articles, and book chapters, as well as speak as conference presenters and guest lecturers.
CONCUR’s newest Working Paper collects personal reflections of Principals John Gamman and Scott McCreary, drawn from 20 years of mediating complex [...]
Strategic Advice/Stakeholder Assessment on Proposed Alcoa Aluminum Smelter for Trinidad and Tobago Environmental Management Agency (2006)
CONCUR was a member of a team retained to provide advice to the Trinidad and Tobago Environmental Management Authority (EMA) on the review of a major aluminum smelter proposal. Alcoa applied to the EMA for a Certificate of Environmental Clearance (CEC) to build an aluminum smelter and associated facilities. The proposed smelter would be located [...]
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 [...]
Situation Assessment, Shoalwater Bay Tribe, Pacific County, Washington (2001-2002)
CONCUR was retained by the Shoalwater Bay Tribe, with the support of EPA Region X, to conduct a Situation Assessment to analyze prospects for future collaboration between Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe and community of Tokeland to address issues related to water quality, coastal erosion, water supply and community development. The objective was to take stock [...]
Briefings for USAID (1990-1991)
Principal John Gamman lead a series briefings for senior US AID officials, building on the work of his dissertation research examining the relationship between consensus building techniques and the support of sustainable development policies and natural resource policy reforms. Results were tied to USAID projects on implementing policy change and environmental training programs.
Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand (1990)
The CONCUR team has completed several initiatives in New Zealand. In 1990, the Ministry for the Environment brought John Gamman and Scott McCreary to New Zealand to present a three course series to senior resource planners, officials in the private sector, and Maori leaders in workshops convened in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch. This was followed [...]
Neutral Fact-Finding Effects of Oil and Gas Exploration in the Ecuadorian Oriente (1992)
CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary teamed with three colleagues from the University of California at Berkeley to conduct an independent review of ARCO’s oil and gas exploration in the Ecuadorian Oriente. The review, jointly commissioned by proponents and critics of oil exploration, focused initially on the adequacy of the environmental documentation, was quickly broadened to include [...]