Institutions struggle with how to allocate resources, adapt to changing circumstances, deal with climate change and sea-level rise, adopt new laws, comply with standards and regulations, and engage in
deliberative democracy. Lawyers, government officials, managers, and
public policy experts are increasingly being called upon to do more than
resolve disputes and make deals; they are needed to manage and resolve
streams of recurring disputes that can cripple an institution.

What you will learn:

• How to conduct an institutional assessment
• Distinguishing between conflicts to be managed and disputes to be resolved
• Designing an effective conflict management system that handles "streams" of recurring disputes
• Use of a variety of problem-solving skills in different substantive contexts such as climate-change adaptation, corporate governance, labor management, and environmental regulation
• How to effectively negotiate complex multiparty and multi-issue public policy disputes
• How to build in effective evaluation, accountability and feedback mechanisms
  
  
• Sean Nolon is an associate professor at Vermont Law School and serves as the director of dispute resolution. He has designed and implemented training programs for the public and private sector for
  over a decade. He also has extensive experience facilitating, mediating
  and consulting and has trained hundreds of local officials,
  environmentalists, and developers nationally. As a trial attorney, Nolon
  coordinated litigation in environmental, land use, and class action
  cases for public, private, and not-for-profit clients.