Western Area Community Development Specialist Principles are accepted rules of conduct or law.
Principles can serve to establish common guidelines for right and ethical conduct.
As such, principles of dispute management act as guidelines for knowledgeable, ethical conduct in managing resource disputes. For those of us who are involved in a collaborative process to manage a dispute, it is easy to fall prey to reactionary behavior. It is easy to get lost in data and technical research agendas in the hopes of finding solutions to disputes. It is easy to become obsessed with following meeting rules or getting something done to the extent of missing opportunities to share issues, learn about others' interests, or assert your own interests. In short, it is easy to lose sight of what the original goal is of a collaborative process to manage disputes.