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COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW: GERALD (JERRY) CORMICK
About this film
The Collaborative Leadership Project (a project of the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Waters, CUW/Puget Sound Institute, PSI) has conducted and filmed oral history interviews with conveners, sponsors, participants, and practitioners from landmark natural resource collaborations conducted in the state of Washington (WA) since the mid-1970s. The goal of the Project is to capture and document as much insight and as many recollections as possible, before anything else is lost to retirements, fading memories, and other losses; and to archive these digitized oral histories. The original copies are housed in the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. More information on the Project is available at https://www.pugetsoundinstitute.org/collaboration/collaborative-leadership-project/ . Jerry was asked by the Ford Foundation in the 1970s to see if mediation techniques being used in labor disputes could be applied to natural resource conflicts. With assistance from Jane McCarthy, he found an opportunity in WA in 1973 related to a proposed flood control dam on the Snoqualmie River, which led to the first successful application of multiparty mediation to an environme…
Directors & creators
Interviewee: Gerald (Jerry) Cormick, Interviewer: Jennifer Huntley, Videographer: Michael Peters
Subjects
Snohomish River Basin Project, UW Environmental Mediation Clinic, Ford Foundation, Collaborative Governance, American Indian Tribes, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution, Dispute Resolution, Environment, Facilitation, Mediation, Natural Resources, Public Policy, Washington State, Snoqualie Flood Control, UW Mediation Clinic
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