WALLACE STEGNER CENTER
ENVIRONMENTAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROGRAM
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
My survival guide for these “interesting times”
May 01, 2025In these times of major uncertainty and rapid change, most of us—no matter our political orientation, values, or beliefs—are worried about shifts that could affect the things we love and care about. Some of us are already feeling the impacts. Here are a few insights that are my “survival guide” for navigating these wild times.
How to find a Big-F facilitator
Apr 01, 2025In this blog, which is the second in a series on facilitation, we discuss how to find and work with a Big-F facilitator.
What is a facilitator and what do they do?
Mar 01, 2025The EDR program team has been getting a lot of questions about facilitation. In this blog, which is the first in a series on facilitation, we explain what facilitation is, why it matters, the differences between small-f and Big-F facilitation, and what small-f and Big-F facilitators do.
La Sal Sustainability Collaboration: Conflict competence in action
Feb 01, 2025My 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.
The ESRR Endowment Fund for the