PPM designs and implements mediation processes that enable unique solutions to emerge through sustained productive negotiations that contain parties’ inevitable clashes of will, perspective and values.
PPM discerns political, cultural and societal dynamics to assist clients in the design of uniquely tailored outcome-based processes that match situational challenges. Awareness of these dynamics enables PPM to initiate and sustain deliberative negotiations to build actionable agreements.
PPM analyzes complex conflicts to identify relevant stakeholders, critical issues, key interests, relevant history and power dynamics.
Based on assessments and in consultation with government, stakeholders, and civil society, PPM designs inclusive processes that incorporate participation opportunities for negotiators and other affected parties.
PPM mediates complex negotiations that integrate varied perspectives and interests into actionable and sustainable agreements.
With insights from local partners, PPM helps create process mechanisms for deep participation that generates additional input into negotiator deliberations and decisions.
Unique solutions emerge from an integration of the perspectives and wisdom of people who are affected by the conflict and will implement the agreement reached.
Susan Podziba, a public policy mediator for more than 25 years, has designed and mediated scores of cases across the policy spectrum for clients including the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, and Transportation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, U.S. Institute of Peace, and the United Nations. She is Director of the Sacred Lands Project of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program and faculty for the Harvard Negotiation Institute course, Advanced Mediation Workshop: Mediating Complex Disputes.
Ms. Podziba is author of Civic Fusion: Mediating Polarized Public Disputes (2012), The Chelsea Story: How a Corrupt City Re-Generated its Democracy (2006), and numerous articles on negotiation, mediation and consensus building. She is listed on credential-evaluated rosters including the United Nations Mediation Roster and the National Roster of Environmental Dispute Resolution and Consensus Building Professionals of the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution.
She has been a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Peace and Conflict Resolution at the Amsterdam Centre for Conflict Studies at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and has taught graduate seminars on public policy mediation and negotiations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
Harnessing Unresolvable Difference Across Abrahamic Faiths to Resolve Religion-Related Tangible Conflicts, Conference Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the International Center for Ethno-Religious Mediation, November 2, 2016 (forthcoming).
“Negotiated Rulemaking for the Brownfields Law,” co-authored with Patricia Overmeyer, chapter in Environmental Mediation: Diversity of Practices Across the World, edited by Catherine Choquette and Veronique Frazer, Montreal, Canada: SAGE, forthcoming.
PPM serves clients in government, industry, and civil society across many policy focus areas and political contexts. We invite you to contact us directly regarding your policy mediation needs or interests.Thank you for your interest in Podziba Policy Mediation. We look forward to hearing from you.
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