UAED Research Report:
Seeking Common Ground: A Compendium of Reccomendations for Early Community Engagement in Mining
Authors: Chiara Barazzuol, Yan Cimon, Craig Kielburger, Cheryl Matthew & Karel Mayrand
Date: November, 2007
Description:
Action Canada Fellows, the Centre for Native Policy & Research, Unisféra, and the Centre for Public Policy Research at Simon Fraser University, hosted a dialogue forum called Seeking Common Ground in 2006. The forum brought together representatives from the communities of interest involved when a mining project is initiated.
The aim of the Seeking Common Ground dialogue session was to bring together diverse actors implicated by mining activities to consider the challenges and opportunities for early community engagement in mining projects. By bringing actors together in a neutral forum, this dialogue session intended to advance mutual understanding among actors and to improve the capacities to engage constructively in the context of mining projects.
The purpose of this document is to provide a compendium of recommendations from the dialogue sessions.