Negotiation

Cross-cultural, Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Personal Development, Promoting Mediation, Skills, Training

(Bond & Bond Mediation / University of Wildau )/ /Leave a comment

In the centre of Berlin opposite the State Opera House, there is a large building in Baroque style that was originally built as the Prussian Royal Library in the late eighteenth century, and came to be called the Old Library once the new Prussian State Library was established in the early twentieth century. The words…

ADR, Argument, Below the line, Brexit, caucus, Clients, Commercial Mediation, Communication, Conflict, Conventional wisdom, Creativity, cross-border mediation, Decision making, Dialogue, Fear, Impasse, Instinct, Intuition, Joint Sessions, Mediation Practice, mediation process, Middle East, Negotiation, peace negotiations, Perception, Practical Challenges for Mediators, shuttle mediation, Stories, Success in mediation, The role of the mediator, Trust, Violence

(Bill Marsh Mediator)/ /2 Comments

Bloomberg (not my usual reading fodder, I confess) carried an interesting piece a couple of months ago, entitled “Meet the Real Force Behind the Brexit Talks”. Yes, it was about Brexit (yawn) but it was about an unseen side of the negotiations. Opening with the line “In every negotiation the most important work is done…

ADR, Conflict, Dispute Resolution, India, International Mediation, Kashmir, Mediation Practice, mediation process, Negotiation, peace negotiations, Promoting Mediation, Training, Transformation, War Stories, Young Mediators

(Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution Team)/ /1 Comment

The Kashmir valley in India is a stressed region and though older generations have ‘lived’ through some tense winters, this generation is not ready to ‘survive’ through the silence and indifference. Deaths are on the rise and if this constantly raging battle between the militants and the Indian administration is not addressed appropriately and immediately,…

ADR, Decision making, Dispute Resolution, General, Governments/Public Sector, Intuition, Japan, Negotiation, Neuroscience, North Korea, peace negotiations, Singapore, United States

(Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy)/ /2 Comments

Here in Singapore, along with the rest of the world, we await the Trump-Kim Summit scheduled for Tuesday 12 June. What can we expect? While we may have learned to expect the unexpected from these two leaders, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un, recent media reports have highlighted one apparently predictable feature of Trump’s negotiation approach….

Dispute Resolution, International Mediation, Mediation Practice, Negotiation, Personal Development, Scotland, Uncategorized

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The International Association of Mediators conference in Edinburgh last month provided a great opportunity to reflect on the lessons learned from the application of a principled negotiation approach, as set out in ‘Getting to Yes’. The conference benefited from the experience of over a hundred leading mediators from around twenty countries, along with policy makers…

ADR, Developing the Field, Dispute Resolution, Negotiation

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While working on the manuscript for a book published last year (Negotiation: Things Corporate Counsel need to know but were not taught – Wolters Kluwer, 2017), I submitted a draft to an eclectic peer group from all around the world to gauge whether I was on the right track. The group comprised corporate counsel, business…

Decision making, Economics, Game Theory, Mediation Practice, mediation process, Negotiation

(Core Solutions Group)/ /2 Comments

One way of describing mediation is as a process that seeks to convert what is apparently a zero or negative sum game into a positive-sum game. This is to use the language of game theory, which analyses strategies that rational players take to secure the best outcomes in interactive, interdependent ‘games’; where the outcome for…

ADR, Cognitive Bias, Decision making, Dispute Resolution, Due Process, Ethics, Fear, Lawyers, Negotiation

(FORARB/Charles University)/ /2 Comments

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. Al Capone This popular quote attributed to the famous US mobster announce the use of force and other dirty tricks in negotiation. I do not especially like it. I would relativise it by the following…

ICC Mediation Competition, International Mediation, Mediation Practice, Negotiation, Teamwork, Training

(University of New South Wales)/ /Leave a comment

Winning is wonderful. No question. As I write this, I am admiring the winner’s trophy – earned by my team from the University of New South Wales in Australia – at the recently concluded 13th annual International Commercial Mediation Competition in Paris. Two years ago we earned the same trophy and I never imagined we…

ADR, Creativity, Dialogue, Dispute Resolution, Interests, Mediation and Society, mediation process, Negotiation

(Kwok, Ng & Chan, Solicitors & Notaries)/ /Leave a comment

Readers who are experts on the wartime British Prime Minister or have recently watched “The Darkest Hour” may find the above caption familiar. Yes, it has been inspired by Winston Churchill’s famous quote “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” If you like the caption, feel…