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Community-Based Conflict Resolution This section includes the products from two clinic projects that focused on the growing area of EDR. EDR refers to Environmental Dispute Resolution, and represents the use of any techniques designed to resolve environmental disputes without traditional litigation. These techniques may include mediation, arbitration, omsbudsmen and others. The first project is a "restatement" of fundamental principle in EDR. It concerns formal processes mandated or authorized by courts or environmental agencies, or statutorily created by legislatures. It sets out to reverse-engineer the thinking behind these provisions, and present the kernel ideas in an organized and succinct fashion. Relying upon an excellent survey of the fifty US states, a diverse selection of statutes and regulations providing for alternative methods of resolving environmental disputes were examined. The principles derived from this examination are restated, annotated and collected here: Resources:
The second project attempts to apply the principles studied above, and so presents a "how-to" manual for resolving environmental disputes at the community level using mediation techniques. A Portuguese translation was made for use in Brazil. Intended to be modular and adaptable to use in multiple localities, the manual includes a supplemental role-play scenario and case analysis for conflicts in Zambia. Resources:
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