Networking & Mentoring

The Environment and Public Policy (EPP) Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution would like to announce the opportunity to apply for the Rob Williams Award for Emerging Environment and Public Policy Leaders. This award was established in 2010 in recognition of the late Rob Williams’ commitment and contributions to the field of environmental and public policy dispute resolution and the professional development of its practitioners. The award will be presented again this year to an emerging practitioner who demonstrates the promise to exercise the leadership exemplified by Rob.

The EPP Leadership Council encourages developing practitioners with 3-8 years of experience in the field and an interest in future involvement in EPP to apply. The 2012 award recipient will receive a one-year membership in ACR and EPP; waived conference registration for the upcoming joint EPP Section and United States Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution (USIECR) conferences May 21-24, 2012, in Tucson, AZ. The recipient also will receive a stipend to offset partial cost of conference travel.

EPP Section:

Please see the message below from Elicia Blumberg on behalf of the Institute for Public Private Partnerships. If you are interested in the opportunity please contact Elicia directly at elicia.blumberg@tetratech.com.

Thanks,
Jason

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Greetings,

I am writing on behalf of the Institute for Public Private Partnerships (IP3: www.ip3.org) where I am an instructor and also help to organize training courses. We are a training institution that specializes in the areas of finance, economics, law, policy, regulation, and management from such infrastructure sectors as energy, transportation, water, telecommunications, environmental management, and municipal services. Our students come from regulatory agencies, commissions and utilities from around the world.

Next month, we are offering a course called Structuring Legal Agreements for Public – Private Partnership Concessions and Contracts. Part of this course focuses on alternative dispute resolution and mediation.

For those of you who were not able to attend the ACR EPP conference in Portland, the mid-levels discussed ways to keep in better contact and provide support to one another between the annual conferences.  An ongoing way to stay in touch is through a mid-level practitioner’s peer learning team.  This is an initiative to connect professionals at similar stages in their careers to discuss foundational theories, new ideas or strategies, challenges and best practices.  Through teleconferences, webinars and in-person meetings in coordination with the ACR EPP annual conference, we can help one another to grow as practitioners. 

Check out some more photos from the ECR 2010 conference: