Selected CMG
Projects
Boston Public Schools
CMG has advised and mediated
among School Administration officials and teachers. Albert Shanker,
President of the American Federation of Teachers, said of an
agreement reached in the Boston Public Schools: "This is an
outstanding contract, a groundbreaker... it demonstrates what
labor-management cooperation can achieve."
Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Limited (BHP)
Negotiation training and consultation to executives from
Australia's largest company.
Canada-Newfoundland Aboriginal Land Claims
Negotiation
Conflict Management completed a diagnostic study
of the difficult negotiations between the government of Canada and
the government of Newfoundland and Labrador over cost sharing for
two aboriginal land claims in Labrador. Conflict Management
conducted a series of interviews in preparation of a report which
contained diagnoses for the current impasse and general approaches
for restructuring the negotiation process. Indian and Northern
Affairs, Canada (INAC), the department that commissioned the study,
has used CMG's recommendations as the basis for the approach the
Canadian negotiating team recommended to the Minister of Indian
Affairs.
Partnership with the Canadian Centre for Management
Development (CCMD)
CCMD is an internal
training institute for the Canadian government established to train mid
and upper management personnel. Conflict Management developed
a partnership with CCMD which encompasses several
initiatives including: the training of CCMD staff who are in the process
of being trained internal trainers and consultants to the
Canadian government on negotiation; providing specialized
negotiation workshops to various government departments; development
of consulting projects; and providing negotiation training (in
English and French) as part of CCMD's regular course offerings. CMG
worked with CCMD to develop negotiation case exercises designed
specifically for Canadian contexts.
Canadian Constitutional Crisis
CMG successfully
conducted two nationally reported and televised mediations among 12
diverse Canadians representing different viewpoints on Quebec
secession, rights of aboriginals, and federal power sharing. Both
forums produced unanimous agreement of an unexpected nature. After
the first session, Rick Miller, a participant and Crown Prosecutor
from British Columbia, wrote that without the process engineered by
CMG, he couldn't imagine the session "being anything more than a
shouting match."
CTV
Facilitated negotiations to end several years of
bitter ownership disputes among owners of the only private
television network in Canada.
Chile
Trained and advised top management executives of three
of the largest state-owned companies. Dealt with a broad range
of negotiations affecting the mining sector.
Colombia
In the past several years, CMG has trained high
officials of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Development, and
External Commerce, as well as leading members of the business community.
The company has also advised the Ambassador to the United Nations
on developing options, to be advanced by non-permanent members
of the Security Council, for ending the Gulf War. A project was
conducted that included training and advising the Ministries of Foreign Affairs
and External Commerce on issues affecting trade policy
formation, public-private sector coordination and interface, and the
conduct of regional and multilateral trade negotiations.
Cyprus
CMG has joined with
the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy (IMTD) and the NTL Institute
to form the Cyprus Consortium. The Consortium is engaged in
a cooperative effort to provide conflict resolution training to members of
both the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities. In an
effort to encourage bi-communal dialogue and to create a broad-based
network of "citizen peacebuilders" on Cyprus, CMG and the other
members of the Consortium provided training for Cypriot
university students, community leaders, and senior policymakers.
Feedback from participants has been almost universally positive and
has encouraged the Consortium to hold additional workshops offering a more
advanced transfer of skills to Cypriot conflict resolution trainers.
El Salvador
Conflict Management provided
advice and facilitation to members of the negotiating teams of
the Frente Farabundo Martí de la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) and
the Government of El Salvador on negotiating an end to internal strife.
The company provided advice and facilitation jointly to members of
the business community, labor unions and Government on issues
relating to implementation of economic and social provisions of the
Peace Accords, including negotiation of a new labor code and
development of an economic plan for El Salvador.
Federal Republic of Germany
Provided
annual joint training for senior diplomats from East and West Europe
at the German Foreign Ministry. Trained German MFA staff to
co-facilitate negotiation workshops.
Finnish Foreign Ministry
CMG trained
senior diplomats in bilateral and multilateral negotiation. The company
also trained senior officials who administer development programs in
Africa, Latin America, and Asia for the Finnish International
Development Agency.
Former Soviet Union and Newly Independent States
CMG
has worked with members of the Russian Federal Government
and governments of former Soviet republics to improve their
skills and processes for managing ethnic conflict. We conducted programs in
Moscow and the United States to train
government, parliamentary and executive officials in negotiation and
design of dispute resolution systems. Participants have included the First Deputy
Minister of Foreign Affairs and the former Minister of Nationalities.
At the request of the former Minister of Nationalities, CMG helped
organize and lead a joint (Russian-U.S.) working group to
develop a system for monitoring and mitigating ethnic tensions
and to review national policy and legislation on ethnic relations. CMG
also developed a manual and training program for journalists on how
the media can play a constructive role in ethnic conflicts in
the FSU. Having conducted a major conference on federalism
and conflict resolution (The Hague, January 1995) in the former Soviet
Union, CMG worked on The Hague Initiative, a project aimed at
facilitating dialogue between breakaway regions and central
governments in Georgia, Moldova, the Russian Federation, and
Ukraine.
Georgia/South
Ossetia
For the past three years, CMG has been
engaged in facilitating informal, unofficial joint brainstorming
between influential Georgians and Ossetians on ways to resolve the
conflict in that region.
Greek
Foreign Ministry
The
company has trained mid-level and entering diplomats in bilateral
and multilateral negotiation in a joint workshop bringing together
Greek diplomats with diplomats from the Balkan area, Eastern Europe
and the Former Soviet Union. The CMG negotiation workshop has formed
part of entering diplomats' required training.
Indonesia
CMG provided training for officials
from the Ministry of Trade, together with officials from other
ministries participating in the formulation and implementation of
trade policy, in conducting and managing bilateral, regional and
global trade negotiations. A diagnostic study was also conducted to
analyze current inter-procedures for ministerial cooperation in
formulating and executing trade policy and negotiations, and to
develop recommendations for strengthening internal coordination.
Malaysia
Joint training for officials from the Ministries
of Trade and Foreign Affairs, and from state-owned enterprises, on
managing foreign economic affairs.
Netherlands,
Ministry of Justice
CMG provided intensive,
five-day training workshops for senior and mid-level officials in
preparation for the Netherlands' accession to the Presidency of the
European Union in January 1997.
Ontario Human Rights Review Task Force, Canada
CMG
prepared a diagnostic study and recommendations on how negotiation
and mediation procedures might be incorporated into Ontario's human
rights enforcement system.
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
CMG was engaged in a program
to help the OSCE develop institutional methods for
conducting "early warning and preventive action" and managing
emerging ethnic, environmental and other disputes threatening
European security. CMG consultants facilitated a seminar for high-level
diplomats involved with the OSCE on new approaches to preventing
conflict escalation and to designing mechanisms for third
party assistance in managing disputes. CMG was involved in a project to assist in
the definition and implementation of the preventive diplomacy
function of the High Commissioner on National Minorities. We also took part
in examining the role of "Ethnic Roundtables" in several countries
of the former Soviet Bloc to evaluate their effectiveness, or lack
thereof, in preventing the escalation of ethnic disputes.
Salzburg Seminar
CMG senior consultants
designed and taught several sessions of the Salzburg Seminar on
International Negotiation, including managing the tension between environment
and development, for fifty young diplomats from around the world.
South Korea
CMG trained and advised
senior officials and economic analysts in every major ministry of the
South Korean Government on managing foreign relations, trade
relations, and relations with North Korea. Work focused on systematic
preparation for negotiations, negotiating with major powers,
communicating cross- culturally and using third parties effectively.
South Africa
For more than a decade, CMG
professionals have worked with South Africans representing all sides of
the national conflict, including labor leaders, church and
community leaders, business leaders, political leaders and
Government officials. At the local level, CMG has trained South Africans
to bring negotiation and conflict management skills into communities
to assist in the reconciliation process. On the national level, CMG
advised the highest leadership of the ANC, Inkatha, and half of the
former National Party Government who negotiated the transition to a
democratic South Africa. CMG-trained South African trainers helped
to launch and facilitate the negotiations between ANC and Inkatha
partisans leading to the suspension of violence in the Meadowlands District
of Soweto and the creation of the Joint Monitoring Committee to
prevent further violence in that township.
Soviet Foreign Ministry/Soviet Diplomatic Academy
CMG
professionals comprised the first-ever team to teach negotiation at
the Soviet Foreign Ministry in March 1989, where CMG trained Soviet
negotiation trainers.
U.S. State
Department
Training for
U.S. diplomats and negotiation trainers at the U.S. Foreign Service
Institute.
United Nations/Colombia
CMG was contracted by the
United Nations to develop guidelines for a state-owned mining
enterprise on negotiating with foreign investors. The company
produced a manual outlining processes for preparing and conducting
contract negotiations and developing ongoing working relationships.
United Nations/Dominican Republic
CMG advised United
Nations officials and Cabinet Minsters on how to prepare and conduct
re-negotiations of a nickel mining contract with a world-wide mining
corporation. The successful resettlement of the contract was
estimated to have saved the small country $1 billion.
World Bank
Training for several years for World Bank
officials on managing development projects.
World Health Organization
Conflict Management conducted
a program to assist least developed countries to improve the quality
and quantity of foreign aid in the health sector by strengthening
their capacity and confidence to play a stronger role in the design
and negotiation of foreign aid- funded projects. In cooperation with
WHO, CMG will provide training and ongoing advice and support to
negotiating teams in several African and Asian countries.
Zimbabwe
CMG conducted workshop in Harare, with the
support of the United Nations, for government officials from
Zimbabwe and Namibia. CMG professionals advised participants in
techniques of building better relationships and dialogue within
their own governments and internationally. Featured were discussions
of how to negotiate loans, project funding, and debt relief with
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