Consensus Building Institute

Consensus Building Institute

When The Concensus Building Institute came to CivicActions they had an old and difficult to maintain website that was not built with a content management system. As a result new content was not easily published to the site, and it did not reflect the dynamic and impactul organization they are.  CivicActions worked with design direction provided by the client's visual designer to develop a robust Drupal powered website that showcases CBI's practitioners, areas of expertise, work with clients and case studies.  The site, built with Drupal 5, makes heavy use of the Views module, Panels, and CCK.  The primary navigation menu uses the Nice Menus module to enable drop down navigation.

Each of CBI's practitioners provide certain services and also serve a particular client sector (business, government, international clients, or NGOs) Node relation fields and Drupal's taxonomy system is used to create relationships between clients with the services they received and the sector they belong to, practitioners with the services they provide and sectors they serve.  Each sector has its own landing page, created with Panels, that pulls together a variety of content related to that sector.

Alex Scott developed the CBI theme based on the designs provided by Hadley Soffe of Nightscape Design. Gregory Heller worked with the client to determine project requirements and configure Drupal to meet them. Additional engineering support was provided by Tech Lead Doug Green.

About Consensus Building Institute

The Consensus Building Institute (CBI) is a not-for-profit organization created by leading practitioners and theory builders in the fields of negotiation and dispute resolution. CBI works with leaders, advocates, experts, and communities to promote effective negotiations, build consensus, and resolve conflicts.

 

CBI improves the way that leaders use negotiations to make organizational decisions, achieve agreements, and manage multi-party conflicts and planning efforts. CBI uses proven principles, processes and techniques that improve group decision-making on complex public and organizational issues.  CBI has an impressive client list that not only includes well known non profit organizations and federal state and local governments but also international governments and organizations working through conflicts including the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

 

Services

Drupal Website Development