Aracruz

I was a representative of the international NGO, and responsible for social justice. In this role, I was responsible for improving benefits and salaries of the workers, and also reducing the impact on the environemnt. This simulation for very informative, and helped me to look at the issues from different perspectives, with concerns of indigenous people and Aracruz corporation.

Our group was involved in constructive debate, where each stakeholder would listen to the proposal on the table, build upon the ideas to match its needs and propose solutions. Different stakeholders were involved in healthy discussion to put forth their view points which helped us to put several short-term and long-term solutions to the issue.

The group could have been more effective if all stake-holders were given some-time to understand the plan out and convolve the key concerns of different stakeholders that had similar interests. For example, I would have planned a seperate meeting between community and international NGO before the meeting with all stakeholders. Both groups had similar interests, such as improving the life of the workers and locals.
These groups could have presented the list to agreed ideas in the meeting with Aracruz.

I have been in similar situations in my work. The research divisions have conflicting interests with the factories. The factories are focussed on maximizing the product yield, while the research or product groups are concerned with performance and reliability. Since the product specifications define such yield losses, I have had several discussions with the factories to have an agreement. We have improved this process significantly over years by performing several tests to demonstrate the perfromance and reliability losses to the factories.