CDR Associates Selected Projects

Selected CDR Projects

2005

Mary Margaret (Center) was the Lead Facilitator of "Managing Diverse Resource Demands on America's Public Lands" at White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation, August 2005.

Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and The Regional Transportation District (RTD) US 36 Environmental Impact Statement.

CDR Partner Louise Smart and Program Managers Julie McKay and Jonathan Bartsch serve on the Public Involvement team for the US Highway 36 EIS from Denver to Boulder, Colorado. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and Regional Transit District (RTD) are examining solutions to the transportation needs in the corridor and employing a proactive public involvement approach in conducting the study. The public involvement process includes a policy and technical committee as well as other approaches to inform and involve the public.

Collaborative Resource Management in the Missouri River Basin - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment.

CDR Partners Christopher Moore and Mary Margaret Golten assisted in the design of this state-of-the-art program on convening and conducting collaboratives, which involved multiple and diverse stakeholders in addressing pressing environmental issues and resolving natural resource disputes. Also conducted modules on convening processes, collaborative strategy design and clinics on problems, and solutions to problems, which parties starting such initiatives are likely to encounter. Participants included representatives from the Mni Sose Intertribal Water Rights Coalition, the Fort Peck Tribes, the Three Affiliated Tribes, Ponca Tribe, Winnebago Tribe, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, and multiple Federal and State land and water resource management agencies.

2004

Tribal/Environmental Dialogue Project, November (2001 – 2004).

CDR Partners Mary Margaret Golten and Peter Woodrow facilitated this project, funded by a grant from the Andrus Family Fund, to focus on strategies for reducing conflict among Federal land managers, environmentalists and tribes regarding access to and uses of land and resources in National Parks. CDR partnered with a tribal group and a leading conservation organization to act as a Convening Team—bringing together stakeholder groups to discuss these issues. The culmination of the project was the “Pacific West Region National Park-Tribal-Conservation Organization Summit” in which three tribes, environmental groups and Parks came together for three days, on the Yurok Reservation, to look at long-term conflicts which, in many cases, went to the very heart of tribal sovereignty.
There were two reports to the Andrus Family Fund which covered the entire Tribal Environmental Dialogue project: an Andrus Exec Summary and a Andrus final report.pdf
There were two reports of the Summit, which was the final phase of the project: an Pac West Summit Executive Summary and a Pac West Summit Final Report.

United Nations Institute for Training and Research - Seminar on Diplomatic Mediation of Political and Ethnic Disputes in Africa

CDR Partner Christopher Moore presented the fifth in an annual series of seminars on Diplomatic Mediation of Political and Ethnic Disputes for a group of twenty one foreign service officers from across Africa in Cape Town South Africa. Prior programs have been held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Harare, Zimbabwe. Over 150 diplomats have been trained.

INTERPAZ, Guatemala - Intensive Training in Mediation for High Level Officials in the Resolution of Political Disputes

CDR Associates' Partners Susan Wildau and Christopher Moore, conducted an advanced training program for high level officials from government, religious organizations, labor groups, human rights organizations and the business community to prepare them to act as intermediaries in high profile political, municipal or potentially violent disputes in Guatemala. The program is part of CDR's ongoing work in dispute resolution capacity building in that nation that began in the late 1990's with the signing of the Peace Accords that ended the 36-year civil war.

International Finance Corporation's, Office of the Ombudsman

CDR Partner Susan Wildau continued her work in Peru on the Mesa de Dialogo (the Dialogue Table) between members of civil society and the Yanacocha gold mine. The dialogue, which has involved as many as 150 people, has been in operation for over a year and a half and is successfully addressing community mine relations over water quality and social development issues. One major success has been the completion of a community-based water quality study.

The Governor's Water Policy Task Force, State of Nebraska

CDR's Christopher Moore and Jonathan Bartch successfully facilitated an 18 month consensus-based process for the 49 members of the Governor's Water Policy Task Force. The Task Force was established to develop proposals for legislation concerning coordination of surface and groundwater by the State Department of Natural Resources and Natural Resource Districts across the state, and to examine the feasibility of water leasing and banking. A consensus package of recommendations was submitted by the Task Force to the Governor and the state Legislature (the Unicam) in December of 2003. All of the recommendations and funding were approved by the Legislature on April 15, 2004.

Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and The Regional Transportation District (RTD) US 36 Environmental Impact Statement.

CDR Partner Louise Smart and Program Managers Julie McKay and Jonathan Bartsch serve on the Public Involvement team for the US Highway 36 EIS from Denver to Boulder, Colorado. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and Regional Transit District (RTD) are examining solutions to the transportation needs in the corridor and employing a proactive public involvement approach in conducting the study. The public involvement process includes a policy and technical committee as well as other approaches to inform and involve the public.

CDR Associates' Jonathan Bartsch (Deputy Project Manager), Louise Smart, Julie McKay, Gary Brown, and Meghana Shah are conducting public involvement for the preparation of an EIS for transportation improvements in a 25-mile corridor between Boulder and Denver. This project involves potential highway improvements, commuter rail, bus rapid transit, tolled HOV lanes, transit stations, bikeways, and pedestrian facilities. Tasks include public outreach and communication, publication and distribution of public information materials, design and facilitation of public workshops, compilation of comments, and facilitation of the Corridor Governance Committee (elected officials) and the Technical Support Committee.

Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Queen's Industrial Relations Seminars on Workplace Mediation Skills.

Since 1997, CDR Associates' Partners Judy Mares-Dixon and Christopher Moore have conducted a series of seminars attended by both labor and management representatives on Cooperative Means of Resolving Collective Bargaining and Workplace Disputes. The 2004 session will be held May 3-6th in Kingston, Ontario. Subsequent to past seminars, a number of participants from Canadian corporations and government agencies have invited CDR staff to assist them in handling employee grievances and collective bargaining problems.

Situation Assessment and Mediation for Taos Pueblo Water Rights Settlement Negotiations

Michael Harty, Director of CDR Associates West Coast Office, was hired by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to prepare an assessment of prospects for mediating the Taos Pueblo Indian water rights settlement negotiations. The underlying adjudication is State of New Mexico v. Abeyta, No. CIV 7896-SC (District of New Mexico). The parties subsequently hired Mr. Harty to serve as mediator in their negotiations. This matter is subject to a confidentiality order and agreement.

2003

South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control vs. Western Atlas, Inc. (f/k/a Litton Industrial Automation Systems, Inc., and successor-in-interest to Litton Business Systems, Inc.), Safety-Kleen (TG), Inc., Safety-Kleen Systems, Inc., and Hoover Building Systems, Inc.; United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, Columbia Division.

Dan. Dozier, the Director of CDR's Washington D.C. Office was selected jointly by the PRPs and the State to mediate a complex case regarding groundwater contamination, liability, and cost allocation. Some of the issues included whether one of the parties arranged to dispose the hazardous substances that had contaminated the groundwater and scientific reliability of some of the evidence. Based on the mediation, the parties settled the case.

Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline Project June - December 2003

The International Finance Corporation (IFC, the private sector investment arm of the World Bank Group) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) were asked to provide partial financing for the 1760 km, $3.6 million Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline project. The BTC pipeline will run approximately 1,760 km from Baku on the coast of the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan, through Georgia to a terminal on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey.

In preparation for going to their respective Boards with recommendations on providing funding for loans for this highly controversial project, IFC and EBRD jointly asked CDR Associates' assistance in convening six multi-stakeholder meetings or fora (MSFs) - two in each of the three affected countries. CDR Associates' Mary Margaret Golten lead an international team in designing the overall strategy and planning process for the meetings; making logistical arrangements in each country in preparation for the meetings; as well as managing the dialogue and interaction among the stakeholders (including IFC, EBRD and BTC Co.) at the specific meetings.

To download an Adobe Acrobat copy of the BTC MSF Meetings Report.pdf.

The final report on this project can be found on the IFC website at http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/btc.nsf/Content/MultistakeholderForumMeetingsReport