CONVENOR works in conflict management and in community environmental decision-making. ​Our practice is distinct from most other firms working in these areas. We focus primarily on issues which affect conflict handling and participatory adult education systems, on a large scale.

In conflict management, we are best known for our work on 

  • gaps between theory and practice and between different specialties; 
  • issues related to mediators’ ethics and qualifications; 
  • new strategies for teaching about negotiation;
  • infrastructure issues, and 
  • organizations’ widespread failure to plan ahead for inevitable disputes, including planning to defend themselves against the “hybrid warfare” attacks which are now proliferating. 

In community-based education about the environment, we are best known for:

  • strategies for engaging individuals and groups on priority environmental topics;
  • Best Education Practices (BEPs) for natural resources education;
  • models for youth water education.

Recently:

Project Seshat, which was led by Convenor’s Chris Honeyman from 2019-2023, published two special issues of journals in 2023 analyzing the relationship between hybrid warfare and conflict management. A book based in the test cases developed by the project is in editing in 2024, with publication expected later in the year. It will be the world’s first teaching casebook about hybrid warfare.

Other highlights:
The American Bar Association published Negotiation Essentials for Lawyers (2019), from the same editors as the Negotiator’s Desk Reference (NDR). Essentials contains 53 chapters, each adapted from the NDR for the needs of time-pressed lawyers. Interview with the editors (from Your ABA, October 2019).

The Negotiator’s Desk Reference (DRI Press 2017) is edited by Chris Honeyman and Andrea Kupfer Schneider. With 106 other contributors, the NDR superseded the same editors’ Negotiator’s Fieldbook (ABA 2006) as the most comprehensive book available about negotiation.

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