When writing her text books w/ co-authors, Andrea found that the headings and labels used in writing the book created confusion and disagreements. Labels hide the reality of what negotiators do, what they need to do in order to be effective. Many different labels overlap or describe or the same thing. But behaviors and skills … Continue reading Andrea Schneider (Marquette) – Labels Suck, er ah, Stink
How to negotiate durable agreements. People can want to change but may be committed to things that keep that change from happening. This is because interests are context dependent. Look at the following literatures: miswanting literature – we don’t really know what we always want, altruistic negotiation literature – somebody has to bite the bullet … Continue reading Jen Reynolds (Oregon) – How Commitments Shape Interests
Jim and Stephan are creating a human rights / conflict resolution clinic at Stanford and looking at how best to merge these two fields. Here’s a list of the skills they want as part of the pedagogy for their clinic Basic human rights & conflict resolution technology Critical analysis Stakeholder mapping – interviewing Fact finding … Continue reading Jim Cavallaro/Stephan Sonnenberg (Stanford) – Bringing Conflict Resolution Strategies to Human Rights Clinics
The more intense the conflict, the more need for pre-mediation caucusing because the novice in the room is the driver of how fast or far along. Other than abuse or high intense conflict cases are the only indicators that pre-caucusing mediation is needed – otherwise there’s a need for investigation. He’s not a proponent of … Continue reading Mike Geigerman (Wash U Adjunct) – Pre-Mediation Caucusing
At Hamline Bobbi and Sharon (and others) have developed a new 1st year course called Practice, Problem-Solving and Professionalism and their paper describes their experiences teaching the first iteration of the course last year. In gathering information, they found that thinking about this as outside of “ADR.” Thus there should be something that all students … Continue reading Bobbi McAdoo/Sharon Press (Hamline) – Problem-Solving in the 1st Year Curriculum
Jennifer’s work on empathy is fantastic and she continues that line of schlolarship w/ the piece. Essentially she says that when addressing value-based problems, empathy is critical. The paper discusses how to teach empathy (yes, it can be done). Jen in conjunction with Larry Susskind have developed roleplays doing this (available at the Harvard PON) … Continue reading Jennifer Brown (Quinnipiac) – Practicing Empathy in Values-Based Negotiation Role Plays
Jen, Andrea and I are at Washington University (St.Louis) at the above referenced workshop presenting works-in-progress and hope to have some quick reactions to what’s happening here. There’s a great room of commenters from a number of schools, but too many to list. Thanks to Karen Tokarz for putting this together. Stay tuned for more. . … Continue reading Live Blogging (Almost) – New Directions in Negotiation & Dispute Resolution
As I close up shop at the office (P&T committee work, check – dean search committee task, check – article draft done, check. . . . ok, almost check but should be done by noon tomorrow), I feel very thankful this year – more so than any year before because of health and family related items. However, other … Continue reading Giving Thanks
The 5th Annual AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progess Conference took place at Creighton University Law School in Omaha earlier this month. Ran Kuttner was the conference organizer and, according to all who were there, did a great job. Here are Ran’s reflections on the conference and kudos to him and the rest of the crew at the Werner Institute. … Continue reading Kuttner on the Works-in-Progress Conference
For those of you involved in clinical education, I pass along this RFP for a new clinical conference at ASU. And yes, ADR clinicians are welcome. Request for Proposals Southwest Junior Clinicians Conference Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University March 16, 2012 – Tempe, Arizona The Sandra Day O’Connor College of … Continue reading RFP Southwest Jr. Clinicians Conference
