(5) Organising public forums inviting local leaders from other “successful” cases to exchange their experiences. At the moment of writing this proposal, we plan to invite leaders from the potash mining case in Udon Thani, however; we also plan to learn from other cases in Thailand and the ASEAN. We encourage the locals to identify strategies that these communities developed or adopted, estimate the potential risks, and adapt the strategies to the case in Loei.