Research

  • Stakeholder Framing of Environmental Disputes

  • Frame Changes over Time

  • The Role of Trust in Framing

  • Research Papers Produced. In addition to the research output described earlier (e.g. our book and the special issue of Environmental Practice Journal), a number of research papers have been generated by the project and presented at various academic and practitioner conferences.

  • A one-day, face-to-face training course on Framing in Negotiations is being developed for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, to be delivered as a supplement to the two-day Negotiation Strategies and Techniques course that the Center for Research in Conflict and Negotiation provides for USFWS.

  • On March 19, 2004, Barbara Gray gave a presentation at the California State University at Sacramento Center for Collaborative Policy, entitled, "Understanding Framing and Using Frame-Based Interventions in Intractable Environmental Conflicts." The Center provides mediation services for major environmental conflicts in California and the west coast.

  • Several EFC principles and some European associates of the consortium will present a symposium on "Turning Points: Factors Promoting Reframing in Intractable Conflicts" at the International Association of Conflict Management Meeting in Pittsburgh, June 6-9, 2004. The individual papers and presenters are:

    • "Conflicting Frames: A Discourse Analytic Approach to Framing and Reframing," Art Dewulf and Rene Bouwen (Katholique Universitet Leuven, Belgium)

    • "Communicating Frames," Cees van Woerkum and Noelle Aarts (Waginengen University, The Netherlands)

    • "Turning Points and Frame Changes in the Edwards Aquifer Conflict," Linda Putnam and Suzanne Boys (Texas A&M University)

    • "Turning in Place: Embedded Identities and Immutable Frames in Environmental Conflicts," Barbara Gray (Pennsylvania State University)

    • "Turning Points Facilitated by Reframing Conflict through Trust," Roy Lewicki (Ohio State University)

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Making Sense of Intractable Environmental Conflicts, is available from the Consortium.