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