Consensus Building/Conflict Resolution toolkit

Shortcut to the toolkit developed by the Consensus Building Institute

(www.cbuilding.org) for the PathFinder

Presentation prepared by Pierre Hauselmann

Do you live in a world without conflict?

Conflicts occur everywhere!

Including in the forest certification & standardisation

debate

How can we resolve this and draft standards

together?

Answer:

The consensus building and conflict resolution toolkit

• Developed by– Consensus Building Institute, Inc (CBI)

www.cbuilding.org

– Based on• Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School

• MIT-Harvard public dispute program

• 20 years of practical experience by CBI

Overview

• Tools to be used at 3 stages of

standardisation process

– Initiation,

– establishment of a national working group

(NWG) / standard setting committee (SSC)

– standard development

• Complement the FSC national initiatives

manual

Overview

• Section 1

– Introduction

• Section 2

– How to conduct a

stakeholder

assessment

• Section 3– Goals, ground rules

and decision rules of a SSC

• Section 4– CB/CR tools for

standard development

Methods described

• Win/win processes

• Joint fact finding

• Stakeholder analysis

• Wise trade off

• Preparation for negotiations

• Goal settings

• Independent facilitation

• the essence of forest certification

• delicate, complicated, important,

• Fun and rewarding

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