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![Evaluating Community-Based Collaboration on Federal Lands and Resources]()
Evaluating Community-Based Collaboration on Federal Lands and Resources
July 8, 2008
In this article, Field and McKinney attempt to evaluate the merits of community-based collaboration by presenting evidence from federal land and resource processes in the Rocky Mountain West.
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![Presidents as Consensus Builders: A Reflection on Political Skills]()
Presidents as Consensus Builders: A Reflection on Political Skills
April 28, 2008
Do the candidates have what it takes to translate their successes as legislators into presidential consensus builders?
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![Grace and Disgrace: Eliot Spitzer's Public Apology]()
Grace and Disgrace: Eliot Spitzer's Public Apology
March 13, 2008
How does the Eliot Spitzer resignation measure up against the five core elements of an effective public apology?
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![The Negotiator’s Fieldbook: The Virtues and Limits of a Kaleidoscope]()
The Negotiator’s Fieldbook: The Virtues and Limits of a Kaleidoscope
February 8, 2008
This review essay critiques The Negotiator's Fieldbook (2006), an interdisciplinary volume that takes a "fresh look" at what we know or think we know about negotiation.
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![Mediator as Juror: A Day in Middlesex County Superior Court]()
Mediator as Juror: A Day in Middlesex County Superior Court
January 31, 2008
A day in court: mediators have an important, but difficult, job in supporting justice, civil society and social capital.
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![The Integration of Conflict Resolution into the High School Curriculum: The Example of Workable Peace (Book Chapter)]()
The Integration of Conflict Resolution into the High School Curriculum: The Example of Workable Peace (Book Chapter)
December 20, 2025
Smith and Fairman contributed a chapter on CBI's innovative high school curriculum, Workable Peace.
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![Resolving Public Conflicts in Developing Countries: From Experiments to Institutions]()
Resolving Public Conflicts in Developing Countries: From Experiments to Institutions
December 18, 2007
This article examines what it takes to set up an effective partnership for public conflict resolution in an emerging democracy, as well as ways for building demand for collaborative conflict resolution.
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![The Consensus Building Handbook]()
The Consensus Building Handbook
December 20, 2025
This book is a comprehensive guide created by leading scholars and practitioners in the field of public issue consensus building. Its step-by-step chapters and detailed case studies explain how to design and manage consensus building processes to help parties understand, respect and respond to one another’s perspectives and interests; create solutions and forge agreements that meet everyone’s needs.
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![Dealing with an Angry Public]()
Dealing with an Angry Public
October 25, 2007
This course teaches strategies for communicating with an angry public.
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![Improving U.S. Relations with the Global Muslim Community]()
Improving U.S. Relations with the Global Muslim Community
October 25, 2007
CBI and Search for Common Ground convene a group of American leaders for a summit that leads to the launch of a project to reverse the downward spiral in U.S. relations with the Muslim World.
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![The Art of Public Apology]()
The Art of Public Apology
October 25, 2007
Public apologies present researchers and consultants with a series of interlocking and difficult questions. Field offers advice on giving an effective public apology.
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![When Individual Bargaining Skills Aren’t Enough]()
When Individual Bargaining Skills Aren’t Enough
October 25, 2007
CBI discusses the importance of not only building negotiation skills, but also addressing structural issues within the organization that affect negotiation capabilities.
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