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REBUILD: Repairing a Fractured Relationship
A mediator I know arrived at a community hall with an agenda built around numbers. Compensation tiers. A monitoring schedule. A remediation timeline.
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Social accord architecture
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GROUNDS: The Mediation Methodology for Extractive Conflicts
A drilling program needed access across grazing land. The herders' association said no, then said worse, and two seasons of goodwill evaporated inside a...
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The Shared Intent Protocol
Two years into a stalled land-access negotiation, the offer per hectare had been raised three times, and each increase made the deadlock worse.
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The Trust Audit
I once watched a traditional leader sign every document a company put in front of him.
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Introducing Social Accord Architecture: The Discipline That Treats Mining-Community Agreements as Engineered Infrastructure
Social Accord Architecture is a new professional discipline for designing, building, and maintaining the structured processes through which industrial
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