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Andrew Acland |
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Andrew Acland has been involved in mediation and conflict resolution for nearly twenty years. He was one of the pioneers of ADR in the United Kingdom, serving as ADR Group's first Director of Mediation. Since 1992 he has specialised in designing and facilitating dialogue in complex, multi-party, multi-issue contexts, often with environmental and/or social sustainability dimensions. He was a founding member of The Environment Council's innovative stakeholder dialogue practice and training programmes and has worked nationally and internationally with business, government, non-governmental and civil society organisations on many controversial issues such as the transport of nuclear waste; decommissioning of offshore installations; industrial development in environmentally sensitive areas; corporate social responsibility; leukaemia clusters; windfarms; road schemes; genetic modification; mining; climate change; forestry; biodiversity; carbon sequestration; fuel poverty; marine exclusion zones and many others. Andrew is also a Director of Dialogue by Design, the company pioneering the use of the Internet for interactive consultation and document drafting processes. Andrew Acland is the author of A Sudden Outbreak of Common Sense: Managing Conflict through Mediation (Century Business 1990), Resolving Disputes Without Going To Court (Random Century 1995) and Perfect People Skills (Random House Business Books 1997 and 2003) as well as numerous articles and papers on stakeholder engagement, and has lectured widely on many aspects of conflict, dialogue and third party intervention. Contact at: |