| Date: | August 26 - 28, 2009 |
| City: | Brisbane |
| Organiser: | Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (ACPACS) at the University of Queensland |
| Contact Name: | Mediation and Conflict Resolution Program |
| Email: | acpacs.melbourne@uq.edu.au |
| Event Website: |
http://www.uq.edu.au/acpacs/documents/flyers/Environmental_Conflict_Re solution_2009.pdf |
In this workshop students will study the concepts and practices of environmental dispute resolution. Three kinds of issues will be explored: energy problems; natural resources conflicts; and public health challenges.
Workshop participants will learn about the unique characteristics that distinguish environmental disputes from other conflicts, the history of mediation efforts, and the interplay of adjudicative, administrative and consensual mechanisms for resolving environmental problems.
The Workshop will cover a specific “logic model” that can be used for assessing, convening, and mediating a range of issues. It will also examine the different roles, functions and responsibilities of local and federal government, industry and business, and the not-for-profit advocacy community.
Disputes over energy, natural resources and public health are on the increase. Litigation and political action are useful but insufficient. We now live in an era where no one intellectual discipline can fully explain these problems, no one sector has the power to force solutions, and no single group can deal with them alone.
These kinds of problems desperately require new cross-sector conversations that constructively engage business, government and community leaders.
Workshop participants will learn about the unique characteristics that distinguish environmental disputes from other conflicts, the history of mediation efforts, and the interplay of adjudicative, administrative and consensual mechanisms for resolving environmental problems.
The Workshop will cover a specific “logic model” that can be used for assessing, convening, and mediating a range of issues. It will also examine the different roles, functions and responsibilities of local and federal government, industry and business, and the not-for-profit advocacy community.
Disputes over energy, natural resources and public health are on the increase. Litigation and political action are useful but insufficient. We now live in an era where no one intellectual discipline can fully explain these problems, no one sector has the power to force solutions, and no single group can deal with them alone.
These kinds of problems desperately require new cross-sector conversations that constructively engage business, government and community leaders.
