Middle
East Fellows Dialogue,
Institute for Social
and Economic Policy
in the Middle East,
Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard
University:
facilitated discussions
among Israeli and
Palestinian health
care professionals
to build relationships
to support joint
health care projects
in the West Bank
and Gaza.
UN
Civil Society Outreach
Symposium, sponsored
by The Stanley Foundation,
cosponsored by the
World Federation of
United Nations Associations
Under the Patronage
of the President of
the General Assembly
of the United Nations:
facilitation of meeting
of non-governmental
organization leaders,
United Nations senior
staff, permanent representatives
to the United Nations,
and multi-lateral
finance organization
officials to recommend
strategies for strengthening
the relationship between
civil society and
the UN System.
Helsinki
University of Technology,
Finland:
workshop on environmental
and public policy
mediation for Finnish
government officials
and academics seeking
to improve implementation
of the Finnish Land
Use and Building Act
of 1999.
Netherlands
Organization for Applied
Scientific Research
(TNO), Delft, Netherlands:
workshop for environmental
professionals and
academics on negotiation
fundamentals, mediation
and interactive policymaking
processes, and complex
stakeholder involvement.
The workshop included
consultation on European
Union projects on
sediments in Dutch
waterways.
Jerusalem
Inter Cultural Center:
consultation on implementation
of Ramot Municipal
Council charter, which
was inhibited by endemic
religious-secular
dispute.
Truman
Institute for the
Advancement of Peace,
Hebrew University:
training for Israeli
and Palestinian professional
facilitators, who
went on to co-facilitate
dialogues within their
own communities and
between their communities.
International
Workshop on Dispute
Resolution, Tel Aviv,
Israel, co-sponsored
by the Israel Bar
Association, the International
Society of Professionals
in Dispute Resolution,
and others:
workshop brought together
Palestinians, Israelis,
Americans, and Europeans
to discuss and teach
basic mediation and
conflict resolution
skills and to learn
about and compare
various processes
in use, for example,
the models used at
Neve Shalom-Wahat-Al-Salaam
(Oasis of Peace).
Water
on the West Bank Simulation:
six-party, mediated
negotiation between
Israelis and Palestinians
concerning a proposed
project to drill a
deep water well on
the West Bank. This
simulation was used
to train officials
from Israel’s
Ministry of Justice,
Palestinian and Israeli
environmental mediators,
and at numerous conflict
resolution workshops
and mediation trainings.
Canadian
Constitutional Convention:
part of a team that
designed format of
the constitutional
convention to address
secession of Quebec
and federal power
sharing.
Cultural
Survival, Inc.:
SP&A facilitated
a joint meeting of
the Board of Directors
and the newly formed
Program Council, composed
of Indigenous Peoples,
to discuss and decide
how to further the
organization’s
mission of assisting
Indigenous Peoples
around the world.
Darfur
Diaspora Peace Process
Workshop, in conjunction
with the U.S. Institute
of Peace:
Workshop for members
of the Darfur Leaders
Network, a group of
Darfurian exiles in
the United States,
who are working to
unify rebel groups
and influence the
United Nations and
African Union-sponsored
Darfur Peace Talks.
Dutch
Inter-Ministerial
Task Force on Terrorism
and Radicalization:
Consultations to the
Task Force related
to strategies for
initiating dialogue
with Dutch Muslim
communities and responding
to far-right anti-immigration
groups.
Dutch
Ministry of Justice:
SP&A consulted
to Ministry of Justice
officials on initiating
and facilitating a
dialogue concerning
social integration
among representatives
of diverse Dutch Muslim
communities.
Friends
of the Earth International
(FoEI): The
assessment was designed
to consider the organization’s
readiness to implement
its strategic plan,
which was prepared
in response to internal
conflict across its
network of almost
seventy national member
groups. It involved
in-depth interviews
with FoEI members
from its 6 regions:
North America, Latin
America and the Caribbean,
Europe, Africa, and
Asia Pacific.
The
Dynamic of Needs and
Interests: A Mediator's
Response to the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict,
Cambridge: Program
on Negotiation at
Harvard Law School,
1988. Out of print;
contact SP&A
for a copy.
