Games

This is a six-party, seven-person (including the mediator), multi-issue mediation simulation game involving a dispute over developing an instream flow action plan. It introduces and explores the uses of a mutual gains approach to negotiation, mediation, and coalitions in a science-intensive dispute with high uncertainty. This game can be played with either 13 (2 per negotiating role + 1 mediator) or 7 (1 per negotiating role + 1 mediator) players. more:::

Wind energy is a viable source of clean, renewable energy. Large areas of America’s continental shelf along the eastern seaboard are suitable sites for offshore wind farms. The first such site has been formally proposed. It is located in Nantucket Sound (Massachusetts) in federal waters. more:::

The construction of a network of new roads began five years ago across private and public lands in the Western U.S. Years ago, the decision to expand the road network was welcomed by many. People believed that it would increase the local forest industry’s access to timber sources thereby fostering job creation and local development. more:::

It is widely understood that mobile fishing gear (scallop and oyster dredges, otter trawls, beam trawls, and roller-rigged trawls, the latter three used for harvesting groundfish) impacts the seafloor. What is not well understood is how that impact effects essential fish habitat (EFH). more:::

Rim Sim is a 6-hour, eight-party negotiation that focuses on creating a framework for long-term disaster-recovery efforts. It involves a range of players from five countries affected by two natural disasters: a typhoon about a year ago and an earthquake about 6 months ago. more:::