Well, I had very high hopes for being able to blog while in Israel and those were quickly dashed between the total lack of sleep and need to reflect on what we were seeing!   So finally, now that we have been back for a week, I will start posting about the sights and visits that … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2015–Vienna to Israel and the Lady in Gold →

We are in the O’Hare airport  ready to go–33 MU law students, my fabulous program coordinator Natalie Fleury, and wonderful MU colleague Chad Oldfather.  With Israeli elections in 2 weeks and Netanyahu here in the U.S. this week, we know we are timely! Flying via Vienna for a day and then landing on Saturday morning … Continue reading Live Israel Blog–2015! →

I am happy to post this letter from Bernie Mayer announcing his new book.  Having read and reviewed the book, I can only repeat what I said before: I LOVE it! Dear Friends and Colleagues:   I am pleased to announce that my new book, The Conflict Paradox: Seven Dilemmas at the Core of Disputes, is … Continue reading The Conflict Paradox →

I posted two articles on SSRN this past week–an oldie but goodie (as John has phrased them) and a new book chapter with co-bloggers Jill Gross and John Lande. The oldie is an article I wrote in 2001 called Baseball Diplomacy examining how Major League Baseball was involved with Cuba (trying to play games there, … Continue reading Building Best Practices…and Some Baseball too →

This comes from an email from Andrew Lee, negotiation professor extraordinaire in Beijing.  I asked and received permission to post–I think it’s a great example of cross-cultural similarities and differences–let alone parenting challenges! With Wondermum Vivian taking daughter Meimei on a girl’s day, I was tasked with bringing little infant son Tintin to the toy store. … Continue reading Andrew’s Excellent Adventure in Toy Shopping →

Now that all of the episodes of Friends have been released on Netflix, I am really enjoying watching them with my kids.  Still very funny.  And, apparently, filled with good negotiation advice on team negotiations.  Hat tip to the Program on Negotiation for tracking how the cast successfully negotiated their last two seasons of $1 million … Continue reading Friends Negotiation Tips →

From Charlie Pillsbury at Quinnipiac who has promised to send some of his stories our way for the blog and is interested in collecting more of these: As a person of faith, I’m drawn to sacred stories about peacemaking and dispute resolution.  As a Christian, I’m most familiar with the Hebrew texts that we Christians … Continue reading Sacred DR Stories →

An announcement to pass along (and push) to our students: We are excited to announce the annual Student Writing Competition in Dispute Resolution organized by the Association for Conflict Resolution for Greater New York (ACR-GNY) and generously sponsored by the JAMS Foundation. This is a nationwide writing contest for Undergraduate students, Graduate students and Law students. The three first-prize winners (one for … Continue reading ACR Writing Competition →