Integrating Conservation Internationals Rights-based Approach

Facilitation Guide for Peace Day (Day 5)

Date: Friday, May 9th

Location: Airlie Center, Warrenton, Virginia

Background: Conservation Internationals second Rights-based Approach (RBA)
workshop will focus on embedding RBA into the organizations DNA. CI staff from
headquarters and field programs around the world will join invited guests from CIs
Indigenous Advisory Group (IAG) and the Conservation Initiative on Human Rights
(CIHR) for in-depth discussions and training sessions on different RBA components.
The workshop will build off a similar meeting held in 2010, in which CI staff laid the
foundation for CIs RBA. This workshop will take a retrospective look at what has been
accomplished since that first meeting, providing training on key RBA topics, assess
current needs, and deliberate on next steps for integrating CIs RBA.

The workshop will also introduce environmental peacebuilding and CIs evolving work in
this arena, building staff understanding of the key concepts related to natural
resources, conflict and cooperation. Together with CIs Peace Fellow and key invited
guests, CI staff will demonstrate the unique role that CI, through our Rights-based
Approach and other conservation strategies, plays in ensuring peace, prosperity and
peoples wellbeing.

Goal of day 5: Increase the knowledge and capacity of Conservation International (CI)
staff with respect to conflict, natural resources and the role of environmental
peacebuilding.

Objectives:
Increase CI staff awareness and capacity to integrate environmental
peacebuilding principles and practices into our work and share experiences and
lessons across the organization and with our partners.
Examine existing natural resource conflict issues encountered by CI field staff
and explore environmental peacebuilding practices and the links between natural
resources, conflict and stakeholder engagement and RBA.



Day 5 Agenda

9:00- 9:15 Welcome and Introductions Janet Edmond, Senior Director, Peace and
Development partnerships, CEP

9:15 9:30 Overview of the Results of RBA Workshop and Links to Peace Theresa
Buppert, Director, Social Policy, Rights and Governance, Social Policy and Practice, CEP

9:30 10:45 Panel Presentation: Setting the stage for Environmental Peacebuilding -
What is it? What are some lessons learned from the environment and development
community? What does this mean to CI? How is this going to change the way we do
things?

Presentations each 15 minutes with 30 min Q&A
Environmental Peacebuilding Overview: Todd Walters, CEP Peace Fellow and
Executive Director, International Peace Park Expeditions
Lessons Learned from Environmental Peacebuilding, Carl Bruch, Environmental Law
Institute
CI Example of Environmental Peacebuilding Activities Charles Kahindo, CI-DRC
Video: Community Led Approaches to Natural Resources and Peacebuilding -
Richard Matthew, University of California, Irvine

10:45 to 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Panel Discussion following Presentations

Targeted questions from CEP and audience.

12:30 1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Fishbowl Discussion with CI Field Staff (2 rounds)
Montse Alban, CI Ecuqdor
Anselmo Amaral and Kate Proud, CI Timor-Leste
Rene Edwards, CI Guyana
Renata Pinhero, CI Brazil

300-3:30 Wrap Up and Next Steps

Facilitation Guide for Fishbowl Activity

Title: Fishbowl Activity
Time: 1.5 hours
Participants: Montserrat Alban (CI Ecuador), Rene Edwards (CI Guyana), Candido
Pastor (CI Bolivia), Renata Pinhero (CI Brazil), Anselmo Amaral and Kate Proud (CI
Timor-Leste)
Facilitators Intentions (Whats behind the curtain?): A fishbowl discussion is a
tool for facilitating dialogue between experts, who provide their experiences and
perspectives, in a way that exposes others to their knowledge and expands the
collective understanding of the group on a subject. It forces those in the outer circle to
listen actively. It will give CI staff (both from headquarters and the field) the opportunity
to hear the experiences, issues and ideas of staff who are operating in
conflict-affected contexts.
Learning Objectives/Participants Take Away: This activity will help connect theory
around environmental peacebuilding to practical examples through the sharing of
experiences. From there, participants will begin to articulate tools and resources
needed to practice conflict-sensitive conservation and engage in environmental
peacebuilding.
Materials: Flipcharts and markers (for open discussion/feedback)
Agenda Overview:
Activity Time Needed
Organize the group 5 minutes
Individual presentations 20 minutes
Guided questions 10 minutes
Open discussion/feedback 30 minutes
Debrief 15 minutes

Detailed Description of Activities:
Organize the group: Set up the chairs to divide participants between an inner and outer
circle. Brief the group on the process.

Individual presentations: Four CI field staff representatives will sit in the center of a
circle of participants and present for 5 minutes each one or two conflict or
peacebuilding experiences/issues they confront in their target area.
Guided questions and debrief: The facilitator will follow with a couple of guided
discussion questions if needed.

Open discussion: The rest of the group will offer feedback and ask questions to tease
out possible responses from CI to some of these issues.

Debrief: The facilitator will summarize the discussion by reviewing key points and
interesting comments. This will useful to continue the conversation in wrap up/next
steps.
Notes To My FALSCH Self (Am I walking the talk?):
How does my content address issues of power and privilege in society? Does it help to
build more inclusive, equitable and sustainable communities, societies and social
institution?

In a fishbowl discussion, the inner circle is given the stage for speaking and contributing
while those in the outer circle listen actively. It can be used to address issue of power
and privilege in society by providing people who tend to be less vocal and less powerful
with space to speak in the inner circle.