UF Center for Latin American Studies
Days: Tuesdays
Times: 9:35 am - 12:35 pm
Location: Frazier Rogers 0106
Course description
Would you like to be better at managing conflict? Handling difficult conversations? Developing partnerships? If your answer is “yes”, this course is for you.
Conservation and Sustainable Development work involve a challenging mix of multiple and competing actors, thorny issues, and complex relationships. Strong disagreements and mistrust can derail even the best of initiatives if left unaddressed, yet most professionals have little to no training in negotiation or managing conflict. Whether disputes are interpersonal - or focused on issues like water, land use, economics and climate change - sustainable solutions to vexing problems require effective strategies for engaging people and bridging differences. This practical course provides students with concepts, skills and approaches for understanding and addressing conflict in a variety of situations and cultural contexts. Through simulations, role-plays, selected readings, case studies and other activities, students will strengthen skills relevant to the practice of tropical conservation and development.
Jonathan Dain
Director, Natural Resource Leadership Institute
Senior Lecturer, Tropical Conservation and Development Program
Center for Latin American Studies
388 Grinter Hall
jdain@latam.ufl.edu
352-273-4713
