Advanced Multi-Party Negotiation of Environmental Disputes

410: Advanced Multi-Party Negotiation of Environmental Disputes

Why take this training?

Effective multi-party negotiation & conflict management require the ability to enter into, build, and foster collaborative relationships among people involved in a dispute; a process that takes time to cultivate and maintain. Building relationships is essential to building trust. Trust is essential to successful group efforts and underlies effective joint implementation of agreements.

This highly interactive workshop develops confidence and skill in negotiating in the complex context of multiple parties by building a practical set of skills and tools that agency staff can use to work more effectively in interagency settings, with stakeholders and the public at large. Environmental, public lands and natural resources issues involve multiple interests and parties, as well as complex issues. This workshop helps new and experienced resource managers engaged in environmental decision-making become more effective in environmental conflict negotiation, prevention and management.

What will you learn?

This highly interactive workshop will help you apply the basics of Interest-Based Negotiation to more complex multi-party negotiation:

Increase self-awareness of strengths and areas for improvement in communication, relationship-building, and multi-party negotiation
Distinguish between two-party and the complexities of multi-party interest-based negotiation
Unpack complex psychological, procedural, and substantive issues inherent in multi-party negotiations
Improve communication survival skills to build enduring working relationships
Understand phenomena associated with individuals’ varying perception of conflict, conflict styles, and group dynamics
Build a practical set of skills and tools to work more effectively in complex interagency settings with a variety of governmental and non-governmental stakeholders
More effectively prevent, manage and negotiate agreements to resolve environmental conflict in ways that satisfy the most needs and maximize the chances of sustainable solutions

Pre-requisites

101: Introduction to Managing Environmental Conflict (recommended, but not required)
110: Negotiating Environmental Solutions (recommended, but not required)
301: Facilitation Fundamentals (recommended, but not required)

Pre-Course Assignment

Interest-Based Negotiation – reading assignment
IBN.pdf

Speaker and Presenter Information

Cherie Shanteau-Wheeler is the Director of Programs for the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution. She is an attorney, mediator/facilitator, and her responsibilities at the U.S. Institute include collaborative process management, mediation and facilitation services, ADR and negotiation training relating to attorneys, the Courts, the Department of Justice and Attorneys General, and the corporate sector. Her areas of subject matter expertise include property and real estate law, environmental law, Superfund, Western public lands, wilderness issues, grazing and endangered species. She joined the U.S. Institute in June of 2001. Before joining the U.S. Institute, Cherie spent more than 17 years in private practice, including two and one-half years as in-house legal counsel and the Dispute Resolution Manager for a Fortune 500 company. She has successfully mediated numerous litigated and non-litigated matters, represented clients in mediation, and facilitated several large public disputes, including, Utah BLM Wilderness designation, a temporary siting of a high-level radioactive waste facility, and complex watershed and riparian management issues. Cherie is on the mediation panels of the American Arbitration Association, U.S. Federal District Court for the District of Utah, Utah State Courts Mediation Program and the U.S. Postal Service. She has taught mediation, negotiation, conflict resolution and communication skills to judges, lawyers, law students, and other individuals, corporations and organizations in the United States and Europe. Cherie received a B.S. in Anthropology from the University of Utah and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law. She was admitted to the Utah State Bar in 1984. She is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, and the Association for Psychological Type. She is qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator�.

Expected Number of Attendees

Relevant Government Agencies

Air Force, Army, Navy & Marine Corps, DOD & Military, Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Commerce, Dept of Energy, Dept of Homeland Security, Dept of Housing & Urban Development, Dept of the Interior, Dept of Transportation, Dept of Veterans Affairs, EPA, State Government, County Government, City Government, Municipal Government, FEMA, Coast Guard, Environmental, Natural Resources, Leadership, ECR