Informal Lunch Session - Friday, June 30, 12:15 PM to 1:30 PM

Title: Leading Collaboratively and the Role of the EPP Practitioner

Join friends and colleagues for a thought-provoking and informal chat on leadership, as an essential ingredient in successful ECR.  The discussion will help generate ideas on approaches to building capacity in agencies and parties for leading collaboratively in implementing "cooperative conservation" efforts, such as the Joint OMB-CEQ Statement on ECR and Collaborative Problem Solving, regulatory negotiations, collaborative
planning processes, and other situations.

Discussion Leaders
:  Robert Fisher, Juliana Birkhoff and Tom Fee

 

Informal Lunch Session - Friday, June 30, 12:15 PM to 1:30 PM

 

Topic:  Project on U.S. Engagement with the Muslim World


Search for Common Ground-USA will discuss its working in partnership with the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program to develop a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary dialogue and consensus process to address the underlying factors that contribute to anti-U.S. sentiment in the Muslim world.  The project aim is to develop a widely supportable, bi-partisan strategy to enhance international peace and security.  No other effort to date has attempted to pool the wisdom of respected leaders in diverse fields - national security, foreign policy, social sciences, religion, business, philosophy and others - to develop an integrative analysis of the problem and widely supportable strategies leading to action.  The project also will engage the media and citizens, along with leaders, to catalyze an inclusive and informed national dialogue leading to action.  The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has provided initial funding for this project.  A Leadership Summit to officially launch the project has been scheduled for winter 2006-7.

Discussion Leader:  Robert J. Fersh, Executive Director, Search for Common Ground-USA

 

Topic: Project on U.S. Engagement with the Muslim World

 

Search for Common Ground-USA will discuss its working in partnership with the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program to develop a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary dialogue and consensus process to address the underlying factors that contribute to anti-U.S. sentiment in the Muslim world.  The project aim is to develop a widely supportable, bi-partisan strategy to enhance international peace and security.  No other effort to date has attempted to pool the wisdom of respected leaders in diverse fields - national security, foreign policy, social sciences, religion, business, philosophy and others - to develop an integrative analysis of the problem and widely supportable strategies leading to action.  The project also will engage the media and citizens, along with leaders, to catalyze an inclusive and informed national dialogue leading to action.  The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has provided initial funding for this project.  A Leadership Summit to officially launch the project has been scheduled for winter 2006-7.

 

Discussion Leader:  Robert J. Fersh, Executive Director, Search for Common Ground-USA

 

For more information, please contact Anne Mansfield, 802-831-1338, eppinfo@vermontlaw.edu