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Local Pipeline Conflicts Go National
February 11, 2020
CBI and its partner Environmental Resources Management embarked on a project to determine better practices for addressing conflicts related to pipeline construction. The results of this project – practical, actionable approaches to addressing conflict – are outlined in our recently released report, "Stakeholder Engagement and Conflict Mitigation in Pipeline Construction."
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Pipeline Construction: When Safety Goes Global
February 11, 2020
CBI and its partner Environmental Resources Management embarked on a project to determine better practices for addressing conflicts related to pipeline construction. The results of this project – practical, actionable approaches to addressing conflict – are outlined in our recently released report, "Stakeholder Engagement and Conflict Mitigation in Pipeline Construction."
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CBI Position Opening - Project Support Administrator
January 21, 2020
CBI is seeking a highly motivated, talented individual to serve as a Project Support Administrator. The Project Support Administrator, expected to be full-time, will work on a range of administrative and project-based tasks to support senior staff across the organization.
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CBI 2019 Year-End Infographic
January 28, 2020
2019 was a busy and productive year for CBI. We had the opportunity to work with stakeholders throughout the U.S. and world on topics ranging from climate change to affordable housing. Please see highlights from 2019 in our year-end infographic.
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Taking Our Headphones Off
December 15, 2019
In the midst of social and political upheaval in Chile, CBI’s Chile Director and Senior Mediator Betsy Fierman discusses the importance of actively listening to one another as a starting point for dialogue on some of the key reforms being called for by citizens. Riots erupted in Chile in mid-October in response to a metro fare increase and have led to more than a million people protesting and calling for a new constitution and improved pension, health, and education systems. Read Betsy’s account of her experiences on the ground in the midst of the unrest and insights on how Chile’s citizens might begin to engage in dialogue, across ideological differences, to help the country move forward.
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Winter 2019: Staff Updates
December 16, 2019
Congratulating our promoted staff and welcoming our new members.
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Winter 2019: CBI in Action
December 15, 2019
A snapshot of ongoing and recent work.
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Breaking Through to the Table: New Thoughts on a Perennial Problem
December 15, 2019
CBI is employing four critical elements of its breakthrough collaboration framework – trust building, creativity, negotiation, and joint action – to support stakeholders who are facing what seem like intractable disagreements on a public issue. These ingredients are powerful catalysts for collaboration, but they beg the question: how do we get stakeholders to the table in the first place? Using a challenging case in a New Jersey community as an example, CBI Managing Directors David Fairman and Stacie Smith discuss enabling conditions and catalysts needed to bring parties together to consider the possibility of collaboration.
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Could SONGS Offer a Sightline to Solving Our Nuclear Waste Dilemma?
December 13, 2019
In its recently published book, Resolving Energy and Land Conflicts, CBI tackled one of the toughest and perhaps most intractable land use and energy dilemmas: where should we put the nuclear waste that is building up through decades of generation from our fleet of nuclear power plants? There is no licensed permanent repository for nuclear waste in the U.S., but a settlement agreement in California to relocate fuel from the decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) may offer important lessons on how to find temporary or permanent locations to store nuclear waste. In this blog post, CBI Senior Mediator Catherine Morris draws on CBI's land use and energy siting expertise to propose a roadmap for successful collaboration to address this challenge.
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Article Explores the Role of the Private Sector in Climate-Induced Relocation
October 28, 2019
In "Climigration and the Private Sector," Carri Hulet, CBI Senior Mediator, and A.R. Siders, of the University of Delaware, make the argument that the private sector “could have a role in facilitating sensible, equitable, and profitable climigration,” or relocation due to the impacts of climate change. The article was published in the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Community Development Innovation Review and highlighted in The New York Times.
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Article Explores Community Engagement and Solutions for Clean Water on Cape Cod
October 30, 2019
In "Designing solutions for clean water on Cape Cod: Engaging communities to improve decision making," Stacie Nicole Smith (CBI Managing Director), Erin S. Perry (Cape Cod Commission), and Kate K. Mulvaney (U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development) explore a case study on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to assess the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement for nutrient management. The article was published in the latest issue of Ocean and Coastal Management.
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Arlington Assessment Offers Recommendations to Repair Community Trust
September 26, 2019
Town officials from Arlington, MA, commissioned an assessment from CBI as part of a multi-step response to a town conflict at the intersection of race, intolerance, and policing. The final report offers a series of recommendations for how Arlington could come together to repair community trust and increase capacity to respond to such incidents in the future.
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