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HURLEY | THE PUBLIC PROCESS 15• The large event and spectacle quality of a charrette generates significantmedia interest.• The variety of ways, opportunities, and times for people to participate ina charrette opens the door to much broader participation than typicaldiscussion-based processes.ResourcesFor Further ReadingDoyles, Michael, and David Straus. How to Make Meetings Work. New York:Jove Books, 1982.SPIDR Environment/Public Disputes Sector Critical Issues Committee, 1997.“Best Practices for Government Agencies: Guidelines for Using CollaborativeAgreement-Seeking Processes.” Accessed athttp://www.acresolution.org/research.nsf/key/EPPbestpractices.Susskind, Lawrence, and Jeffrey Cruikshank. Breaking the Impasses: ConsensualApproaches to Resolving Public Disputes. New York: Basic Books, 1989.Professional OrganizationsAssociation for Conflict Resolution: http://www.acresolution.org.See especially the Environment Public Policy Section:http://www.acresolution.org/research.nsf/key/Sec-EPP.TrainingLocal community mediation centers are good places to get training inbasic mediation. You can look up mediation centers by location on thewebsite of the National Association for Community Mediation athttp://www.nafcm.org/pg35.cfm.More specialized training is available through the Lincoln Instituteof Land Policy: http://www.lincolninstitute.edu.See especially their Mediating Land Use Disputes course series.