On 4 June 2013, Chatham House, with support from Cordaid, hosted a one-day workshop with a group of 27 business leaders and extractives sector experts with the goal of identifying key challenges for establishing more constructive relations between communities and companies in the extractive industries, and to discuss available tools and best practices to do so.Today, governments, industry leaders and international organizations recognize that creating cooperative relationships and trust with local communities is a central challenge for extractive industries. Instant communications empower communities to voice their concerns and demands more effectively, and democratization and decentralization in many countries is making governments more responsive to their grievances. At the same time, the practices of companies are also being scrutinized ever more closely by shareholders, international NGOs and home governments.