The Environment and Public Policy Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution is gearing up for a progressive and thought-provoking three-day conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts June 28 - 30, 2006.

Keynote addresses and workshops will focus on four main themes:
- The Intersection of Public Policy Dispute Resolution and Deliberative Democracy
- Addressing Intractable, Values-Based Public Disputes
- Learning from Conflict Management Outside the U.S.
- Public Policy Dispute Resolution as a Business

Summaries and session reports: Wednesday | Thursday | Friday

Chaired by Professor Lawrence Susskind, Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, and Harry Manasewich, President of Human Factor Dispute Resolutions, "Deliberative Democracy: New Directions in Public Policy Dispute Resolution" will offer participants the opportunity to network while learning from top practitioners and theorists in public policy dispute resolution and deliberative democracy.

Online registration has closed, however you can still sign up at the conference.

EPP Conference Brochure [PDF] | Speakers List | Attendee List

Deliberative Democracy: New Directions in Public Policy Dispute Resolution would not be possible without help from our generous sponsors and organizers.

Conference Benefactor:
The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
Conference Co-Sponsors:
Vermont Law School’s Environmental Law Center | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Event Sponsors:
RESOLVE, Inc. | The Consensus Building Institute | Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution (MODR) | U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution (USIECR)
Dinner With a Theorist Sponsors:
MODR Dinner with Barbara Gray | The Keystone Center Dinner with Archon Fung | John Jostes Dinner with Daniel Kemmis | Concur Dinner with Michael Wheeler | Pace University Land Use Center Dinner with Bruce Patton | Center for Collaborative Policy Dinner with John Folk-Williams | The Mary Orton Company Dinner with Deborah Kolb | Suffolk University Law School dinner with Robert A. Baruch Bush