Friday’s scholarship roundtable at Wash U was great, and I hope you enjoyed the nearly live blogging. It’s always a good time to talk about good papers to help make them better, to catch up w/ folks in the field, and to meet some new people. I know that the comments I received will make … Continue reading New Directions in Negotiation and ADR – reflections
Finishing up on the Wash U ADR roundtable, here is the discussion surrounding John’s paper. Not surprisingly John states that our teaching goal is teach students to negotiate effectively. One criticism he has of the current method is that we tend to focus on negotiating w/ counterparts on the “ultimate” negotiation that is limited to … Continue reading John Lande (Missouri) – Teaching Students to Negotiate Like a Lawyer
Brian Ganson (University of Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town, South Africa) has published a paper with the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform (2011, Series Paper No. 2) in connection with their conference on “Strengthening International Support for Conflict Prevention.” From the Introduction: Practitioners, scholars and institutional actors focus on the predatory aspects of business in fragile environments … Continue reading Ganson on Business and Conflict Prevention
This is out of context and in no particular order: Caucus is the refuge of cowards there are no ideological virgins I know we’re talking about author X’s paper, but I really want to comment about author Y’s paper instead Immediately afterwards from Author X – I want to comment on author Y’s paper too. … Continue reading Overheard at Wash U’s New Directions in ADR and Negotiation program
So Art is too modest to blog about himself but he kicked off this morning presenting on his new paper examining the role of gender in making ethical decisions. Counter to other previous studies, Art and his co-author Jess Alberts find that when faced with a client request not to disclose a material fact, women … Continue reading Art Hinshaw (ASU)–Gender & Negotiation Ethics
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
