Consensus Building Conflict Resolution toolkit

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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
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Do you live in a world without conflict?
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Conflicts occur everywhere!
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Including in the forest certification
standardisation debate
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How can we resolve this and draft standards
together?
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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

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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

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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

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Methods described

• Win/win processes
• Joint fact finding
• Stakeholder analysis
• Wise trade off
• Preparation for negotiations
• Goal settings
• Independent facilitation

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Consensus Building is

• the essence of forest certification
• delicate, complicated, important,
• Fun and rewarding

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