Conflict Resolution
The focus of my environmental conflict resolution, minimization, and transformation has been within the professional NEPA and environmental planning arenas. I am often name-requested for complex and controversial projects and programs, sometimes at the beginning, and often when a project or program has become controversial. My experience as professional staff for both Federal and state agencies and my subsequent partnerships with Federal and state personnel supports my ability to use the administrative processes, legal frameworks, and quality science to correctly and clearly assist all participants in a conflict resolution/transformation effort by focusing on collaboratively-developed goals; well-defined issues (cause and effect relationships;, practical, feasible, and effective alternatives; and objective evaluations of efficacy and impacts.
Conflict transformation involves finding the root of the conflict and attempting to change the fundamental causes for long-term resolution through positive and innovative shifts in perception and processes.
My conflict resolution/transformation approach provides a proven systematic interdisciplinary analytic process for focusing participants on visions/goals/underlying needs for action, scope of decisions, scope of conflicts and issues to be resolved, reasonable and technically feasible options for issue resolution that meets the goals, and objective evaluation of the benefits, disadvantages, and impacts of each option as change from baseline, with rapid documentation of the results concurrent with the progress of the process.
Using this approach, I have never failed in reaching reasonable conclusions and solutions supported by participants and stakeholders within the agency decisionmaking process and authority while also providing sustainable environmental protections.
None of the complex and controversial projects and programs I have facilitated has been litigated, despite active threats.
I am familiar with the ecosystems and issues throughout the country, including Alaska, Hawaii, Indian Country, and the North Pacific, and have worked with almost all agencies in the Federal government, including the DoD, USFS, DOE, USDA, DOI, USACE, either through projects and programs or highly tailored and facilitated workshops. I have worked as the principal on projects and programs involving military radars, submarines/sonar, airfields, and sustainable training; timber sales; fisheries in the Pacific; invasive species; Integrated Natural Resources Management Plans; highways; endangered species; and marine mammals.
Professional publications outline the processes and reasons for success for dealing with environmental conflict within the NEPA ad environmental planning arenas that convert the professional dialogue away from a focus on documentation to a focus on the fundamental human aspects of disagreement and conflict. Focusing on the importance of clearly defining the underlying needs for action/visions/goals is the grounding framework for all planning, decisionmaking, and conflict resolution/transformation.
Conflict transformation involves finding the root of the conflict and attempting to change the fundamental causes for long-term resolution through positive and innovative shifts in perception and processes.
My conflict resolution/transformation approach provides a proven systematic interdisciplinary analytic process for focusing participants on visions/goals/underlying needs for action, scope of decisions, scope of conflicts and issues to be resolved, reasonable and technically feasible options for issue resolution that meets the goals, and objective evaluation of the benefits, disadvantages, and impacts of each option as change from baseline, with rapid documentation of the results concurrent with the progress of the process.
Using this approach, I have never failed in reaching reasonable conclusions and solutions supported by participants and stakeholders within the agency decisionmaking process and authority while also providing sustainable environmental protections.
None of the complex and controversial projects and programs I have facilitated has been litigated, despite active threats.
I am familiar with the ecosystems and issues throughout the country, including Alaska, Hawaii, Indian Country, and the North Pacific, and have worked with almost all agencies in the Federal government, including the DoD, USFS, DOE, USDA, DOI, USACE, either through projects and programs or highly tailored and facilitated workshops. I have worked as the principal on projects and programs involving military radars, submarines/sonar, airfields, and sustainable training; timber sales; fisheries in the Pacific; invasive species; Integrated Natural Resources Management Plans; highways; endangered species; and marine mammals.
Professional publications outline the processes and reasons for success for dealing with environmental conflict within the NEPA ad environmental planning arenas that convert the professional dialogue away from a focus on documentation to a focus on the fundamental human aspects of disagreement and conflict. Focusing on the importance of clearly defining the underlying needs for action/visions/goals is the grounding framework for all planning, decisionmaking, and conflict resolution/transformation.