TEN STEP TO NEGOTIATING HIGH-STAKES WATER CONFLICTS

摘要

In an effort to understand the human dynamics at work in a difficult and contentious water negotiation, the Natural Resources Law Center of the University of Colorado Law School convened two workshops that included people with extensive experience in such negotiations. One workshop consisted of stakeholders and attorneys who had participated in one or both of two efforts to resolve the water conflicts in Oregon's Klamath Basin by mediated negotiations. The other workshop consisted of professional negotiators, mediators, and attorneys who had taken part in difficult water negotiations throughout the West. The goals of the two workshops were the same: to understand why water conflicts are so difficult to resolve by negotiation and to develop some practical guidelines for how to organize and conduct a difficult water negotiation.