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View ArticleWho ME? Manipulate? Negotiating Impartiality in Mediation
I was reading a great article in the New York Times this morning about "blue sky" transparent diplomacy in light of Obama's Cairo speech and was intrigued by the phrase "constructive ambiguity" in...
View ArticleNegotiating with North Korea
Check out today's ADR Prof Blog post What are their interests? Negotiating with North Korea. Excerpt below. North Korea recently sentenced two U.S. journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, to 12 years...
View ArticleFamily, Collaboration, Reciprocity and SOCIALISM?????
From Indexed -- In Theory at Least. And this is all I'll have to say about universal health care. The way in which this Index Card wisdom applies to legal practice was addressed by me in the sadly...
View ArticleNegotiating Rational Choice, Statistics and the Future of Mankind
(right: Bueno de Mesquita's "Logic of Political Survival") The book at right was brought to my attention for the first time by this highlighted text in Good Magazine: In the foreboding world view...
View ArticlePower and Trust as Negotiation Strategies and the Lessons of The Cove
Powerlessness and silence go together; one of the first efforts made in any totalitarian takeover is to suppress the writers, the singers, the journalists, those who are the collective voice. -...
View ArticleDiplomatic Engagement to Settle Your Commercial Litigation
Today's New York Times Op-Ed piece on "diplomatic engagement" (Terms of Engagement) as a strategy for "chang[ing] [Iran's] perception of its own interests and realistic options and, hence, to modify...
View ArticleRussia and Bank of New York Mellon Use Litigation as an Opportunity to Make a...
Just like I'm always saying -- this from the Wall Street Journal Law Blog [T]he Bank of New York Mellon has reached an agreement to settle a $22.5 billion lawsuit by the Russian government for $14...
View ArticleBlawg Review #234
Sociologist Elise Boulding has said that we live in a “200 year present,” a “social space which reaches into the past and into the future” -- a space in which “we can move around directly in our own...
View ArticleMediators and Industry Knowledge, Game Theory and Understanding Conflict
Check out the range of opinions among litigators' clients on this still-hot topic in mediation circles over at the Business Conflict Blog (quickly becoming one of the most indispensable commercial...
View ArticleConflict Revolution: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice and Terrorism by Dr....
I spent my day Saturday at the annual convention of the Southern California Mediation Association (kudos to attorney-mediator Phyllis Pollack for a fabulous conference!) Ken Cloke spoke eloquently on...
View ArticleHarvard Mediation Goes to Iraq
Community mediation in Iraq? You betcha. Some successes are small. He described one mediation between two families: one household with young girls built a privacy wall that blocked sunlight from...
View ArticleResources on Women and Negotiation in Honor of Women's History Month
I'm sure you've noticed that we're celebrating negotiating women here this month in honor of International Women's Day and National Women's History Month. Other than tomorrow night's free negotiating...
View ArticleWhat Women Really Want - Negotiating Peace
(reprinted from the ForbesWoman She Negotiates Blog) Let us be crystal clear from the start. It’s never ever more Tomahawk missles. As the U.N. Women’s War and Peace page reports: While women remain a...
View ArticleNegotiating Reconciliation, Amends and Forgiveness in Burundi
Whenever I read about restorative justice (my paper on the topic here) I am somewhat ashamed that I cannot put aside my own grievances when others resolve harms of such major magnitudes such as the...
View ArticleNegotiating Peace at the ABA DRS Conference: Pray the Devil Back to Hell
The most stunning presentation at the recent ABA DRS conference, about which I will write much more very very soon. For the web site, click here!
View ArticleThe Taliban Cafe - War, Peace and Reconciliation
Today's good news from the New York Times - the Taliban has opened a political office in Qatar to recommence peace negotiations 18 months after it walked out of talks with the U.S., accusing it of...
View ArticleNegotiator Shero: British Home Secretary Theresa May
The most senior woman in British Prime Minister David Cameron's cabinet, Home Secretary Theresa May, is being lauded this week for negotiating the deportation of accused terrorist Abu Qatada. As the...
View ArticleWhat Lean In Needs Now: Accountability, Amends and #PayGenY
If you're working in the professional, managerial and entrepreneurial women's sphere at all, you can't have missed Lean In's misstep in seeking to "hire" an unpaid intern to assist it with its mission...
View ArticleObama v. Syria
I'm not advocating an armed response. I'm just talking about line-drawing, its perils and its consequences.
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