Friends and colleagues Aaron Wolf and Todd Jarvis are delighted to offer a half-day workshop on 'Water Conflict Management and Transformation in advance of the American Water Resources Association’s annual conference in Seattle on the afternoon of November 6 from 1:30 to 5 PM. You can attend even if you are not attending the conference - just pay the $199 fee onsite. The workshop will be held at the conference venue: Hyatt Regency Lake Washington, 1053 Lake Washington Blvd. N, Renton, WA 98056.
Overview:
"Water Conflict Management & Transformation” offers an opportunity for water resources professionals regardless of background to learn about current and leading-edge ways to work effectively in contentious water situations. It explores conflict tolerance, prevention, management, and transformation through collaborative structures as well as through models of negotiation and dialogue. Water management is conflict management. Regardless of the scale, ensuring that the needs of the people and ecosystems that rely on this critical resource are met effectively requires comprehensive understanding of both water science and water conflict management, including dispute mitigation, transformation, and resolution. To address these needs, the instructors have designed a highly interactive approach to capacity-building, including theoretical approaches, case studies, role plays, and serious gaming. The goal of this course is to broaden the scope of approach to the conflicts inevitable in the water world, and to provide a more theoretical dimension to conflict, engage multi-level scales of conflict dimensions and strengthen skills through highly experiential learning opportunities.
Learning Objectives
- Increase participants’ understanding of the issue of shared waters from various perspectives and scales.
- Develop the ability of participants to reframe interpersonal differences and apply this within the context of shared waters.
- Increase skills of participants to analyze stakeholders, issues and conditions for negotiations within a shared waters context.
- Introduce the participants to a wide range of negotiation tools, models and frameworks.
- Provide a space for participants to practice and demonstrate their negotiation/mediation skills.
Aaron and Todd are two of the world's best experts on water conflict management and transformation. They are often found in the far reaches of the globe. We are fortunate to have them here with us for a day. Take advantage of their skills.
See you then!
"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations." - Unknown
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