Abstract
In planning and design of infrastructure, considerations of local situation and residents' interests are essential issues. However, there are a lot of problems for forming a meeting place of dialogues when participatory process should be started, because of lack of knowledge on the efficient methods to find stakeholders to be involved, and find interests to be discussed. This study aims to verify effectiveness of the stakeholder analysis which is developed in Consensus Building Process in US as so called Conflict Assessment in order to understand of interests in a local area. By introducing stakeholders analysis into practical planning process of a new river embankment considering local history, culture and landscape, the authors found the characteristics of the capture of interests as preparation of forming a place of participatory dialogues, and verify effectiveness on making reliability on the facilitators and satisfaction for participation as well by introducing personal interview by the facilitators as neutral person.
