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The Wallace Stegner Center’s Environmental Dispute Resolution (EDR) Program fosters a culture of collaboration around environmental, natural resource, and broader public policy issues by helping people be more skillful in working through conflict. In particular, we focus on building capacity for collaboration through training, thought leadership, and collaboration assistance and advising.


AREAS OF WORK

Training

We specialize in training individuals and teams to skillfully navigate conflict and effectively collaborate to address complex environmental and public policy challenges
Collaboration Assistance & Advising

We convene, facilitate, and support model efforts that demonstrate the potential of collaboration to address seemingly intractable environmental and public policy disputes
Thought Leadership

We conduct research and share innovative ideas to advance our understanding of the theory and practice of conflict competence and effective collaboration

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RECENT EDR BLOG POSTS


La Sal Sustainability Collaboration: Conflict competence in action

Feb 01, 2025

My last project with the Wallace Stegner Center’s EDR program was facilitating the La Sal Sustainability Collaboration (LSSC), a diverse group working to co-create an approach to management of the Southern La Sal’s and Canyons, where federal, state and private rangelands are operated as an integrated, sustainable system.

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2024 EDR blog year in review

Jan 01, 2025

To kick off the new year, we’ve been reflecting on our achievements from 2024 and what we would like to accomplish in 2025. One of the things we are proud of from 2024 is posting another year’s worth of EDR blogs on key topics related to conflict competence and collaboration.

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Emotions are data when dealing with conflict

Dec 01, 2024

I find it very telling that when I ask people at the start of my classes and professional trainings what they think of when they think about conflict, the most common responses are emotions (particularly unpleasant emotions) such as frustration, anxiety, anger, or fear.

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We need to talk about dysregulation

Nov 07, 2024

Let me start with a provocative question: How are you feeling about the current state of U.S. politics? I encourage you to take a moment to really sit with this question and tune into how you are feeling.

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