Promote legislation, public policy, and regulations which reduce the likelihood of conflicts and encourage the use of the alternative dispute resolution process. Sponsor a March 1989 Education Conference on Growth Management Conflict Resolution. Design and deliver a basic course in Growth Management Conflict Resolution to planning professionals and other interested growth management stakeholder groups. The primary purpose of this paper is to give an achievement report on these objectives. The term management in contrast to resolution emphasizes the need to anticipate and prevent conflicts.
Mediation is simply negotiation assisted by a third-party neutral.
In arbitration a third party is granted authority by the disputants to recommend or impose a settlement. All of these additional conflict resolution alternatives can be viewed as supplements or adjuncts rather than substitutes for the traditional conflict resolution systems. This could involve a local plan compliance dispute between a county and a state agency, or a conflict between a state agency and a federal agency over management of a Federal Reserve area, or a dispute between a private developer and a federal, state or local permitting agency. In its Final Report GMAC explained why Florida needs the GMCR alternative. First, conflict resolution is required by law.