Resilience Dialogues: Strategies for Conflict Management in Collaborative Science - NERRS/NSC(NERRS Science Collaborative)

Resilience dialogues are conversations that occur among people with diverse perspectives who have agreed to work together to increase community and ecological resilience. For over a decade, the National Estuarine Research Reserve System has been leading a new approach to collaborative science that brings together scientists, environmental managers, and community stakeholders to address pressing coastal issues. Conflict is a natural part of collaborative science as people with differing perspectives and values interact in new ways over complex and uncertain issues. While leading collaborative science projects, reserves and their partners have accumulated a wealth of knowledge about how to confront and manage conflict. The Resilience Dialogues project drew on this experience to identify four best practices for collaborative science. The project created a curriculum, case studies, and peer-to-peer trainings to share these successful collaboration techniques and build conflict mediation skills. Multiple in-person and virtual workshops for reserve staff established these best practices and contributed to the effectiveness of collaborative science projects within the reserve system, while the project’s resources brought this expertise to a wider audience of state agencies and coastal management partners.

This science transfer project was funded by NOAA through the National Estuarine Research Reserve System Science Collaborative to promote the use of science. It did not produce any new data.

National Estuarine Research Reserves have been designing and implementing collaborative science projects since 2009. Collaborative science in the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) has emphasized research projects that integrate scientists and end users to co-create knowledge. These collaborative processes integrate diverse perspectives, interests, and resources, which can elevate the science and application of a project but can also generate conflict along the way. This project brought together the shared experiences of reserves in managing conflict during collaborative research projects. It synthesized lessons learned about managing conflict in collaborative science and create a curriculum, resources, and peer-to-peer training to share this knowledge and best practices. It increased knowledge and awareness about the kinds of conflict that arise during collaborative science projects, the causes and consequences of conflict, and the times or phases of a project when conflict is most likely.

Project Lead

Christine Feurt, Ph.D.

Wells National Estuarine

Research Reserve

(207) 646-1555 x 111

cfeurt@une.edu

Project Type

Science Transfer – promoting the use

of science

Project Collaborators

• Grand Bay Reserve, Mississippi

• Great Bay Reserve, New Hampshire

• Guana Tolomato Matanzas

Reserve, Florida

• Hudson River Reserve, New York

• Lake Superior Reserve, Wisconsin

• Mission-Aransas Reserve, Texas

• Narragansett Bay Reserve, Rhode Island

• NOAA Office for Coastal Management

• North Carolina Reserve

• Old Woman Creek Reserve, Ohio

• Rookery Bay Reserve, Florida

• San Francisco Bay Reserve, California

• Waquoit Bay Reserve, Massachusetts

• Wells Reserve and Laudholm

Trust, Maine

The distributor does not assume liability.

None

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