Sample Case Studies

• • Global Development & Peacebuilding
  • Land Use & Transportation

  Resolving Conflicts between the Israeli Government and Bedouin Stakeholders

  CBI and a multicultural group of Jewish and Arab-Israeli mediators and planners conduct a conflict assessment to explore whether mediation might provide more effective dispute resolution.

  October 23, 2025

  CBI assembles a multi-cultural team of Jewish and Arab-Israeli mediators and planners to address issues surrounding land use by the Israeli government and the Israeli Beduoin community in the Negev region.

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• Restoring Eelgrass in the Mid-Atlantic

  February 2, 2023

  Background and Challenge Eelgrass meadows—underwater fields of flowing, ribbony marine plants—teem with life, including crabs, fish, and shellfish that find shelter and food there. Rooted in silt and mud, these stretches of seagrass do more than promote…

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• • Economic & Social Policy

  Revising Funding Formulas for Native American Schools

  CBI designed and facilitated a negotiated rulemaking process on school maintenance funding for the Bureau of Indian Education.

  October 23, 2025

  CBI conducts facilitates a negotiated rulemaking process on school maintenance funding for the Bureau of Indian Affairs 185 BIE-funded schools.

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• • Land Use & Transportation

  Setting a 10-year Strategy for LA County Transportation

  CBI helped the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s executives and Office of Extraordinary Innovation clarify strategic priorities for the region and the agency.

  October 23, 2025

  The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation brings in CBI to facilitate workshops, with the CEO and agency executives, to create a roadmap for its direction and strategic priorities forming the backbone of the Metro strategic plan.

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• • Agriculture & Commodities
  • Economic & Social Policy

  Shaping Consumer Demand for Healthier Eating

  CBI helped bring warring sectors together to tackle the obesity epidemic.

  October 23, 2025

  CBI partners with the nonprofit Convergence on Nutrition and Wellness project aimed at building consumer demand for healthy foods.

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• • Climate
  • Coasts & Oceans

  Smith Island Envisions its Future

  CBI collaborated with residents, government officials, and an environmental solutions specialist to map a way forward for an offshore community in Chesapeake Bay.

  October 23, 2025

  CBI collaborates with residents, government officials, and an environmental solutions specialist to map a way forward for an offshore community in Chesapeake Bay.

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Partial List of Convenors/Clients

• Water Resource Foundation

• Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission

• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

• World Bank Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO)

• World Health Organization

• World Resources Institute

• World Wildlife Fund

• World Wildlife Fund Chile

• Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies