논문

This study analyzed the coordination mechanism of policy conflicts in the case of
the Dong-River dam project between the Ministry of Construction and
Transportation and the Ministry of Environment. The study tries to define the
relation between the policy participants' strategies and the policy coordination
mechanisms in the development processes of water resources. We first found
that there was an effective mechanism for the arbitration of interests by the joint
investigative team. The team was successful because there was the participative
policy making structure, the institutionalization of formal discussion, and the
presentation of credible data in the conflict coordination process. We also found
that the strategies of conflicting parties changed according to the structure of
policy participants, and consequently the coordination mechanisms changed. In
accordance, we emphasize the necessity to unlearn and properly relearn the
revised coordination mechanisms to coordinate complex and value-involved
conflicts.