Resolving Conflict and Building Consensus
Few activities have more potential for community conflict than land use projects. Whether they are redevelopment sites, transportation additions or realignments, business expansions or other projects, they often breed conflict. These projects directly impact communities, businesses and the environment in ways that invite conflict. Government regulation and litigation are often viewed as inevitable despite their prohibitive costs and lengthy delays.
There are better ways. At Sharp Resolutions, our team helps parties resolve conflicts at earlier, more cost effective stages by:
- Group Facilitation/Consensus Building: Employing state-of-the art facilitation techniques, Sharp Resolutions skillfully guides participants from a wide variety of viewpoints through contentious discourse to consensus solutions.
- Mediation: When needed, mediation is used by Sharp Resolutions to help smaller sets of the group – often representatives of two or three subgroups – resolve particular issues.
- Dispute Management: Sharp Resolutions has a variety of other dispute prevention and training tools that can help any or all of the disputants to manage their conflicts in very cost efficient and effective ways.
For a sample of our experience at helping groups resolve land use conflicts, please click here.