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![Assessing the State of Conflict Assessment]()
Assessing the State of Conflict Assessment
September 13, 2011
CBI reviews conflict assessment reports from around the world on behalf of an organization hoping to advance public sector dispute resolution in Japan.
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![Mediating Land Use Disputes: Pros and Cons]()
Mediating Land Use Disputes: Pros and Cons
December 20, 2025
This report examines the pros and cons of utilizing assisted negotiation processes in land use disputes based on the results of a study of local land use disputes involving 100 communities around the United States.
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![Using Assisted Negotiation to Settle Land Use Disputes: a Guidebook for Public Officials]()
Using Assisted Negotiation to Settle Land Use Disputes: a Guidebook for Public Officials
December 20, 2025
This Guidebook is intended to demonstrate to public officials how communities and regional agencies throughout the United States are approaching land-use disputes in a new way.
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![Integrating Mediation in Land Use Decision Making: a Report on Systems of Land Use Mediation in Vermont]()
Integrating Mediation in Land Use Decision Making: a Report on Systems of Land Use Mediation in Vermont
December 20, 2025
This report examines mediation across the land use system within Vermont to determine how to identify cases where engaging in mediation may be appropriate, prior to the appeal stage.
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![Responding to Streams of Land Use Disputes: A Systems Approach]()
Responding to Streams of Land Use Disputes: A Systems Approach
December 20, 2025
This report by the Public Policy Research Institute at the University of Montana and CBI provides strategies to help municipalities prevent and-use disputes from erupting.
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![Adapting to Climate Change: Managing Tomorrow's Risks with Today's Decisions]()
Adapting to Climate Change: Managing Tomorrow's Risks with Today's Decisions
August 18, 2011
Climate change poses a range of threats to communities around the world. What can communities do now to manage the risks?
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![Role-Play Simulations and Managing Climate Change Risks]()
Role-Play Simulations and Managing Climate Change Risks
August 16, 2011
Role-play simulations are no game. CBI has used simulations to help high-level leaders around the world talk about tough political choices, consider new perspectives, and incorporate climate change risks into short- and long-term decision-making.
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![Negotiating Virtues]()
Negotiating Virtues
May 4, 2011
CBI wonders if we can, or should, teach negotiation as an opportunity to act virtuously.
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![How Best to Restore Civility?]()
How Best to Restore Civility?
May 4, 2011
CBI asks what can be done to restore civil debate and produce less polarized and more productive conversations, decisions, and policies in the United States.
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![How We Feel About the Deal]()
How We Feel About the Deal
April 25, 2011
Recent findings show humans are prone to certain systematic errors when determining how they feel about current, past and potential future events. These findings have important implications for negotiation theory, research, advice, and practice.
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![Facilitating Wind Energy Siting: A List of]()
Facilitating Wind Energy Siting: A List of "Do's and Dont's"
April 14, 2011
A pragmatic list of best practices for siting wind energy facilities drawn from a CBI workshop.
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![How to Negotiate When Values are at Stake]()
How to Negotiate When Values are at Stake
October 7, 2010
Negotiators are accustomed to focusing on interests. But to resolve an entrenched dispute over differences in values, beliefs, and identities, negotiators and mediators need a new set of tools.
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