Negotiation Journal

The Negotiation Journal is a multidisciplinary international journal devoted to the publication of works that advance the theory, analysis, practice, and instruction of negotiation and dispute resolution.

The journal is committed to the development of better strategies for resolving differences through the give-and-take process of negotiation. Negotiation Journal’s eclectic, multidisciplinary approach reinforces its reputation as an invaluable international resource for anyone interested in the practice, analysis, and teaching of negotiation, mediation, and conflict resolution including:

• educators,
• researchers,
• diplomats,
• lawyers,
• business leaders,
• labor negotiators,
• government officials, and
• mediators.

The kinds of articles that appear in the Journal range from brief columns reporting or commenting on interesting ideas to research reports; from analytic descriptions of negotiation practice to essays aimed at building negotiation theory; from integrative book reviews to accounts of educational innovations.

Editor
Michael Wheeler

Managing Editor
Nancy J. Waters

Managing Editor Emeritus
J. William Breslin

Associate Editors
Daniel Druckman
Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Associate Editor, Reviews
Robert C. Bordone

Associate Editor, Education
Melissa Manwaring

Current Issue:

Negotiation Journal celebrates its one-hundredth issue (October 2009) with a special section looking back at twenty-five years of theory, practice, and teaching in negotiation and conflict resolution. Editor Michael Wheeler, joined by former and current managing editors Bill Breslin and Nancy Waters, kick off this special issue with a look back at the journal’s founding and the role it has assumed over the years as a “forum where theory and practice inform each other.”

Carrie Menkel-Meadow, a veteran Negotiation Journal associate editor, takes a “big picture” thematic view of the development of negotiaiton theory in the last three decades and concludes that the study of negotiation has been marked by increasing complexity and sophistication, while associate editor Dan Druckman considers the development of negotiation research, with a focus on the most counterintuitive research findings.

Jim Sebenius takes a look back at how the field of negotiation analysis evolved from game theory and decision analysis, with a particular emphasis on its debt to the work of Howard Raiffa. Chia-Jung Tsay and Max Bazerman chronicle findings in behavioral research analysis, which looks at how and why people make the decisions that they make in negotiation.

Bruce Patton looks back to the very beginning of negotiation teaching, with his history of Harvard Law School’s ground-breaking, thirty year-old Negotiation Workshop. Bob McKersie and Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld outline three decades worth of scholarship in labor and collective bargaining, while Deborah Kolb takes an equally comprehensive look at how we have understood the role of gender in negotiation.

Frank Sander considers the birth, growth, and not-completely fulfilled promise of mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. Eileen Babbitt looks at the development of international conflict resolution over the last quarter century, which has seen a shift from a focus on Cold War superpower negotiation to efforts to promote human security across the globe. Finally, Larry Susskind completes the special anniversary section by sharing an eyewitness account of the rise of public dispute resolution and his predictions for the future of this growing area of negotiation practice and study.

Rounding out the issue are John Winslade’s “Secret Knowledge of Peacemaking,” a somewhat personal story about the stories people tell and the rituals that they share when they are trying to make peace with each other and Carrie Menkel-Meadow and Irena Nutenko’s discussion of what they learned about the possibilities for peace and peace design processes in the Middle East from their Israeli mediation students. Finally, J. Richard Hackman considers the implications of Diana Smith’s book on teambuilding, Divide or Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength.

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