Monday, April 25, 2022

 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm ET Live Webinar
Event Recording

Given how the failure to adequately consult Indigenous communities on energy and natural resource extraction projects foments social conflict and human rights abuses, this program provides best practices on consultation from throughout the world, focusing on potential opportunities for mediators and facilitators should President Biden succeed in creating an effective Federal consultation mechanism with American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal Nations.

Public Disputes and Consensus Building Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Dispute Resolution

Thomas Andrew O’Keefe, President, Mercosur Consulting Group, Ltd.

John Bickerman, Principal, Bickerman Dispute Resolution, LLC

Stephanie Lucero, Senior Program Manager, John S. McCain III, National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution

Lauren van Schilfgaarde, Director, Tribal Legal Development Clinic, UCLA School of Law