Objectives

The International Programme on the Management of Sustainability (IPMS) is a 7-day high-level seminar for senior officials from the public, private and non-profit sectors about strategies to meet the challenges of sustainability.

The Programme is held each year in June in the Netherlands.

The objective of the IPMS is to train participants in the techniques of multilateral dialogue to resolve the conflicts that arise in the context of implementing sustainable development. The IPMS teaches a mutual gains or win-win approach to negotiation. On the basis of role-playing exercises, lectures and discussion groups an integration of theory and practice is achieved that enables a dynamic, interactive learning process.

Professor Peder Agger lectures on biodiversity on the lawn of Woudschoten Conference Centre

Steven de Bie, Head of the Environmental Expertise Group of Dutch Oil Company, in discussion with Programme Director Larry Susskind during IPMS 1999