Environmental negotiation workshops

Autor: admin June - 29 - 2009

Environmental negotiation is a specific strategy of coping with a conflict situation in a local community; we pay special attention to the difficult category of conflicts concerning public goods, controversial investments that engage many social groups. The workshop is meant to acquaint participants with knowledge and skills required to analyse social situations effectively and to provide advice in local conflicts. The course includes knowledge concerning various negotiation strategies, psychological aspects of the negotiation and public consultation process, skills for effective communication, the conflict’s participants’ points of view and interests identification, choosing objective criteria that support the work on the conflict, providing analytic tools for conflict management, skills for representing sides of the argument and basics of conducting environmental negotiation. The form of a workshop will allow the participants to use acquired theoretical knowledge in exercises simulating a situation of conflict and negotiation. Workshops are conducted by environmental psychologists specialized in applying psychological methods in the context of local conflicts. The program of workshops on environmental negotiations consists of one to three two-day meetings organized for leaders of local societies, local government clerks and activists of non-profit organizations. To complete the course all three workshops must be attended.

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