A Report of an International Roundtable - June 12, 2009 [convened on behalf of UN Special Representative John Ruggie as part of the Special Representative's examination of the inter-relationship between the corporate responsibility to respect human rights and the need for improved access to remedy]... The mining sector is increasingly attuned to the need for more effective management of conflict with communities around project sites... Effective grievance mechanisms are an important part of the equation. But, where they exist, they do so within a much broader ‘ecosystem’ of factors internal to the company that can also have an impact on how well the company manages conflict... In June 2009 the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative (CSRI) at Harvard Kennedy School hosted an expert meeting with the objective of exploring this relationship between corporate culture and conflict management...