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Akordi awarded with the ‘Wind Power Deed of the Year’ prize: Green transition is not a matter of mere announcement

Akordi was awarded the 'Wind Power Deed of the Year' prize in the Wind Finland seminar 1.2.2024 in Oulu. The jury stressed the important role Akordi has played in mediating and building collaboration between Wind Power Industry and Reindeer Husbandry. The longstanding work has thus far resulted in a…
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The Origin Story of Akordi

Today, December 13th, 2023, marks the official 10th anniversary of Akordi Oy. On this special occasion, join us as we delve into the story of how Akordi came to be, drawing on the experiences of co-founders Jonna Kangasoja and Lasse Peltonen. The pivotal encounter, which many years later led to the…
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What went right? Research shows what is needed to successfully integrate contentious goals in forest management

In a recently published article 'What went right? A collaborative process to prepare a city forest management strategy' (Saarikoski et al. 2023) authors analyze a collaborative process facilitated by Akordi that succeeded in creating a joint forest management strategy for the city of Jyväskylä, Finland.…
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The Global Network of the Consensus Building Institute met in the Netherlands

Picture above: CBI Global Network members Pablo Luberman, Lasse Peltonen, Nuno Delicado, Hans van Zijst, David Fairman, Michael Brown, Merrick Hoben, Marc Wesselink (front) Jonna Kangasoja, Kate Kopischke, Mara Hernández Mid June 2023 Akordi co-founders Jonna Kangasoja and Lasse Peltonen met with…
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Virginia Tech students at Akordi

Today Akordi hosted a group of students from Virginia Tech Leadership in Global Sustainability program. The visit was part of their excursion to Finland to learn about Nordic transfomations. Akordi founders Jonna Kangasoja and Lasse Peltonen shared the origin story of the not-for-profit company and…
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Always Trust First

by Jonna Kangasoja I was invited to speak at the NELIS (Next Leaders' Initiative for Sustainability) Europe Summit 2019 in Helsinki last week. The request was to share some key lessons on leading through conflict. Any wisdom I have, I have learned from my wise teachers, both the official ones…
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The dynamics of disaster response: how to ensure policy learning in the aftermath?

Environmental disasters can become important events in our individual lives and in the collective memory of a nation. Even eras can be named after them as we may refer to a time before and after the Chernobyl accident. At some point of our lives, almost all of us can expect to be directly or indirectly…
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Fifteen Things We Know about Environmental Dispute Resolution

We asked Akordi mentor, professor Lawrence Susskind, founder of the the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, "What do we know about environmental dispute resolution?". He offered the following list of fifteen things we know - for an actual fact. The still timely list was Originally published on…
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Why do people who care about their survival ignore the warnings of doom?

In the aftermath of an environmental or other type of disaster, we often find out that someone or some faction had already given a pre-emptive warning about the looming crisis. An outrage follows: who screwed up, why were these warnings ignored and why was no preventive action taken? It brings up a valid…
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How to win together

Winning and being a winner are two very different things when it comes to interest based negotiation. During a one week course in Joensuu about Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution this distinction was elaborated with an exercise that can be used in recognizing three important factors…
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Founders of Akordi invited to the CBI Global Network

The CBI Global Network Following the 20th Anniversary Symposium, the Consensus Building Institute convened and hosted the first gathering of The CBI Global Network, a diverse community of leading practitioners and scholars spanning the Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia. See…
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Interview with Professor Larry Susskind

MIT Professor Lawrence Susskind visited Finland in June 2014. His visit started with a two-day summit on Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution in the Fiskars Village one hundred kilometers west of Helsinki in Southern Finland. The summit gathered twenty leading professionals from local…
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