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Overview  What is collaboration

• Your definitions
• Terms and ideas from the literature
• Seven Cs  Collaboration Debate
• Supporters
• Skeptics

Exercise: What is collaboration?  Don’t look at your readings  Define in your own terms

Barbara Gray (1989)  Collaboration is a process through which “parties who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for solutions that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible

Julian (1994)  Process through which stakeholders define a common mission, allocate resources, and engage in activities designed to achieve that mission”

Innes and Booher (1999)  The process itself is simply and foremost one of learning, which transforms participants’ previously held convictions and helps them to develop new shared meanings, purposes and innovative approaches to otherwise intractable issues.

Weber (2003)  [GREM]: “an ongoing, collaborative governance arrangement in which inclusive coalitions of the unalike come together in a deliberative format to resolve policy problems affecting the environment, economy, community (or communities) of a particular place.”

Range of Ideas and Themes  Public problems  Decision-makers

• Groups
• Autonomous  Shared Rules  Common mission  Shared power delegated to the group?

Range of Ideas and Themes (continued)  Explore differences and search for solutions  Structure or a Process?  Stakeholders or the Public as Well?  Creativity, exploration, deliberation  Place based or not?

What does it look like?  Initiation phase: starting, convening, defining  Consensus phase: reviewing, deliberating, consensus-building  Implementation phase: implementing, refining, revising, adjusting Initiation Consensus Implementation

Discussion  Background

• Margerum (2011) discusses why collaboration has emerged and where
• McCloskey (1996) presents a skeptical view
• Layzer (2008) challenges the “optimistic view”  Deliberation
• Work in groups assigned as supporters or skeptics
• Debate the pros and cons of collaboration