Collaborate, Mediate, Negotiate! Riddle me this: where can you find Exxon Mobil,
Greenpeace, the Environmental Protection Agency and Coal Power USA
holding hands and singing a rousing rendition of “Why can’t we be
friends”? Yeah, we haven't seen it either. But take away the singing and hand-holding and you
have a multi-stakeholder dialogue that has the potential to make positive,
lasting change!
Youth Policy Summit is the only
program of its kind that engages students in a mediation process that includes
representatives from diverse stakeholder groups. Participants step into
the shoes of industry, government and advocacy groups and spend the week
working together to understand underlying common interests and collaborating to
find a solution that everyone can agree with. YPS students learn to identify
and value diverse perspectives. They are leaders with the crucial ability to
listen, understand and mediate conflict within a group so that a feasible,
lasting solution can be found.
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