The Exploratory Dialogues: Breaking First Trail for the Pathways and Principles of Reconciliation
June 12, 2021
Order of Canada recipient 2022 – Stefan Glenn Sigurdson, C.M., K.C.
November 1, 2022
After serving as Chair of the Board of Trustees for 8 years, Glenn Sigurdson was appointed Chair Emeritus at RESOLVE.
Over the course of his long and distinctive career, he has received many acknowledgements, including the appointment to the Order of Canada in 2022, Canada’s highest civilian honour.
He was profiled in the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law publication Public Dispute Mediators: Profiles of 15 Distinguished Careers, he is internationally known for his work related to complex multi-party challenges involving environmental, resource, and land use issues, from mining to oil and gas, fish to forests, energy to water, often involving indigenous rights and interests. He co-authored the widely referenced Building Consensus For A Sustainable Future – Putting The Principles Into Practice to give life and application to Guiding Principles for Building Consensus that had been developed through a two year national negotiation process which he helped lead involving sustainability roundtables established in every Canadian province and territory, and The Canadian Council of ministers of the Environment, as part of Canada’s response to the Report of the World Commission on the Environment.
Glenn is also a senior dialogue associate at the Wosk Center for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University, with whom he has had a long relationship.
RESOLVE forges sustainable solutions to critical social, health, and environmental challenges by creating innovative partnerships where they are least likely and most needed. We envision a less polarized world with a shared commitment to transforming ambitious ideas into tangible benefits for people, communities, and ecosystems. RESOLVE pioneered the use of dispute resolution and consensus building 40 years ago as a means of developing practical solutions to complex natural resource conflicts and policy issues. Today, we bring our process expertise to technically and politically complex, high-profile initiatives.
PHOTO: Left to right: Steve Desposito, CEO; Abby Dilley, Vice Chair; Glenn Sigurdson Chair Emeritus, Britt Banks, Chair
