Archives by Tag 'New York'

“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 [...]

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“.

New York Marine Endangered Species Workshop (October 2008)

CONCUR helped design and facilitate an October 2008 workshop focused on protecting marine endangered species in New York State waters. The three-day workshop, held in Port Jefferson, NY, and sponsored by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, brought together researchers, academics, local, state and federal officials, NGOs and others interested in improving [...]

UN CEO Water Mandate Initiative (March 2008)

CONCUR Senior Associate Bennett Brooks facilitated the inaugural meeting of the CEO Water Mandate, a United Nations-sponsored initiative that brings together business leaders and the broader international community with a focus on improving strategies and efforts to address the emerging global water crisis.
The initiative focuses on six main topic areas: direct operations; supply chain [...]

Cleaning Up PCBs in the Hudson River and Raritan Estuary, New York (1987)

The CONCUR partners mediated a complex dialogue under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences on the question of managing PCBs in the ocean region known as the New York Bight. This dialogue included ten facilitated meetings over 18 months, with contributions by 20 scientific advisors and participation by 22 federal, state and [...]