Welcome to CBAsia.org

CBAsia is a group of academics and practitioners who are interested in the use of consensus building and similar public policy processes in Asia.

Recent activities

June 2011. We organized a session at the Association for Conflict Resolution's Environment and Public Policy Section Annual Conference in Portland, OR. Our session title was "Challenges, Opportunities, and Surprises: Consensus Building and Other Collaborative Efforts for Sustainability Governance in Asia." The conference venue was connected with Prof. Dong-Young Kim in Seoul through Skype!

Our presentation slides:

• Introduction
• Dong-Young Kim: Challenges and Opportunities for Consensus Building for Sustainability in Korea
• Boyd Fuller: Teaching public dispute resolution in Asia: Challenges and experiments
• Masahiro Masa Matsuura: Institutional Limitations and Necessary Changes for Better Governance in Japan

May 2011. We participated in "Rethinking Negotiation Teaching" conference at Peking University. We organized "Teaching Negotiation: Pacific Rim Adaptations to Negotiation 1.0" sessions.