CADRe Workshop a Success

ALEXANDRIA, VA – November 30, 2009. On October 20-21, 2009, IWR's Conflict Resolution and Public Participation Center of Expertise (CPC) co-sponsored the 2009 Meeting of the Computer Aided Dispute Resolution (CADRe) Community, along with Sandia National Labs, the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at EPA's Denver Office.

Strategies for evaluating CADRe and developing training on CADRe concepts were among the topics of discussion, as well as opportunities for application in the Columbia River Basin, the Missouri and Snake rivers, and Peru. The group also spent time defining the unifying characteristics of our CADRe community and the potential of using the established term "Shared Vision Planning" instead of "CADRe" to refer to all forms of collaborative analysis and problem solving. Workshop information, including presentations, is available at www.computeraideddisputeresolution.us/workshop2009.cfm, and a summary will be posted soon.

Over 40 people attended the seminar, including representatives from river basin agencies, state agencies, nine Federal agencies, non-governmental organizations and academia.

More about CADRe

Computer-aided dispute resolution (CADRe) is an approach to decision-making that supports negotiation among disagreeing parties with computer simulation models. CADRe refers to various, largely independent and isolated efforts to integrate two rapidly growing, but largely distinct approaches to decision-making: negotiation/bargaining as a means of resolving water resource decision making disputes and development of computer based systems models intended to support water resource management. CADRe09 was convened to solidify CADRe's identity and to develop an action plan for improving and promoting CADRe methods. CADRe07, the 2007 workshop, was the first to gather a diverse community of CADRe practitioners to begin establishing a coherent professional community.

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