Our EPP Section supports its members and works with organizations who embrace a range of conflict resolution processes and share our values.  Those values are:

People Centered 

• Invite justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion 

• Assure all affected interests are “at the table” and involved in resolving conflicts and seeking consensus on matters of environmental, public, community or organizational policy 

• Bring an interest-based lens to learn why people care about policy issues 

• Honor confidentiality, kindness, and compassion 

• Model empathetic, open acceptance of feelings/emotions that naturally arise in complexity

Informed

• Design collaborative pathways to resolve conflict and integrate people, information and data 

• Create the space for others to create and share knowledge 

• Convene space to work through complex problems and create new knowledge, policies, and ideas

• Advance new knowledge through joint research and shared analysis

• Explore avenues of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion

Empowering

• Build conflict resolution and collaborative capacity in individuals and organizations 

• Teach and uplift our EPP Section members and partners while building evidence-based knowledge through shared work and peer reviews

• Generate accountability discussions to address  justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion

• Build participants’ capacity to continue collaboration work after transitions in process or leadership

Multidisciplinary

• Build conflict resolution and collaborative capacity in individuals and organizations 

• Teach and uplift our EPP Section members and partners while building evidence-based knowledge through shared work and peer reviews

• Generate accountability discussions to address  justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion

• Build participants’ capacity to continue collaboration work after transitions in process or leadership

Constructive with Conflict

• Conflict is a creative opportunity; not all conflict is destructive, and not all cooperation is constructive. 

• Design with appropriate transparency to enable connections at different levels of power 

• Hold space for complexity of solutions that are just, equitable, and inclusive

• Cultivate cultural awareness, responsive, and competency 

• Promote belonging by attending to all sides and perspectives