When it comes to dispute resolution, we now have many choices. Understandably, disputants are often confused about which process to use.
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New! Advanced Mediation Workshop: Mediating Complex Disputes
Course Dates: June 4-8, 2018
You’ve handled numerous mediation sessions with ease. You are confident in your mediation skills, especially between two parties who want a fair resolution. But how do the dynamics change when their lawyers join the session? What happens when the mediation expands to multiple parties who are bringing many issues to the … Read More
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Hydropower In Santales
Jennie Hatch under the supervision of Lawrence Susskind
Six-party, multi-issue negotiation focused on issues of public engagement in hydropower-based
energy development
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15 Things You Need to Know About Environmental Dispute Resolution
Here are 15 things about dispute resolution in environmental negotiations that Program on Negotiation faculty member Lawrence Susskind published on his website, Consensus Building Approach.
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Live-Mediation Teaching Video
Charles Doran
Video featuring an actual landlord-tenant small claims mediation
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In Contract Negotiations, Agree on How You’ll Disagree
During the course of a complex negotiation, the last thing we want to think about is the possibility that a serious disagreement or contract breach will arise during the implementation stage. Yet we also know that such conflicts are common.
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Humboldt
Lawrence Susskind
Eight-person, multi-issue mediation among regional government, environmental, development, and business interests regarding environmental and economic tradeoffs and ethical issues in the development of a manufacturing plant
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Types of Mediation: Choose the Type Best Suited to Your Conflict
When parties involved in a serious conflict want to avoid a court battle, mediation can be an effective alternative. In mediation, a trained mediator tries to help the parties find common ground using principles of collaborative, mutual-gains negotiation.
We tend to think mediation processes are all alike, but in fact, mediators follow different approaches. Before choosing … Read More
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Arbitration vs Mediation: The Definition of Mediation as a Problem Solving Process
Mediation is often thought of as a last step to adjudicate disputes. In this article, professor Lawrence Susskind spells out the hidden advantages of using mediation early in the process to solve problems and reach voluntary compliance agreements.
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Dispute Resolution on Facebook: Using a Negotiation Approach to Resolve a Conflict
For several years, Facebook has been working with social scientists to bring traditional methods of dispute resolution to cyberspace. The site has begun to offer users tools to resolve disputes with one another over offensive or upsetting posts, including insults and photos.
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Use Integrative Negotiation Strategies to Create Value at the Bargaining Table
How can you uncover additional value, make useful trades, and put together a package that exceeds your party’s expectations? Here are four integrative negotiation strategies for value creation that all negotiators should add to their toolkit.
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Definition of Mediation and the Mediation Process: The Impact of Lawyers on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
How does the presence of lawyers affect the mediation process and mediations in general? You might guess that when one or both sides bring an attorney to a mediation, the process would become more contentious and adversarial, with impasse more likely, than if the parties worked solely with a mediator.
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Mediation Training: What Can You Expect?
Organizations have long recognized the value of hiring professional mediators to help resolve disputes. More and more, managers have begun to also see value in securing mediation training for themselves and their employees. Although there are times when the services of an unbiased, professional mediator are needed, there may also be instances in which employees … Read More
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Top Business Negotiations: Michael Bloomberg versus the New York Teachers’ Union
Business negotiators seeking to resolve a dispute should foster a cooperative spirit, framing negotiations around gains rather than losses. And when negotiators are far apart, it may take a professional mediator or other independent party to help bridge the divide.
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Mediating Better Community Relations in New Orleans
On May 14, Susan Hutson, the independent police monitor for the city of New Orleans brought together community stakeholders and police officials to help formulate a program that would allow police officers and citizens to mediate minor disagreements, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. Aided by a professional mediator, citizens and officers would sit face to … Read More
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How Mediation Works
When negotiators can’t come to agreement but want to avoid an expensive, time-consuming, and potentially rancorous lawsuit, mediation is often their most logical choice. Mediation can help to resolve a wide range of disputes.
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What is Alternative Dispute Resolution?
So, you’re stuck in a serious dispute, but you’re desperate to avoid the hassle and expense of a court case. You’ve heard about alternative dispute resolution but are not sure what it entails.
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Choose the Right Dispute Resolution Process
What is dispute resolution? There are three basic types of dispute resolution, each with its pros and cons. The first two, mediation and arbitration, are considered types of alternative dispute resolution because they are an alternative to litigation.
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How Your Organization Can Benefit from Mediation Techniques
If you manage people, disputes will show up at your door. The marketing VP protests that the budget cap you and your new finance VP proposed is hindering a research initiative you supported. Two young sales representatives are embroiled in a turf war. Your administrative assistant is upset because the HR director won’t approve the … Read More
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What is Conflict Resolution, and How Does It Work?
If you work with others, sooner or later you will almost inevitably face the need for conflict resolution. You may need to mediate a dispute between two members of your department. Or you may find yourself angered by something a colleague reportedly said about you in a meeting. Or you may need to engage in … Read More
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Negotiating with a Mediator’s Assistance: A Case Study
A few years ago, Stephen B. Goldberg was asked to serve as a facilitator for and adviser to a corporate team from a telecommunications firm that was preparing to negotiate with five other telecom companies on the division of radio spectrum for cellular telephone relay satellites.
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Business Negotiations: What You Need to Know About Joint-Fact Finding
Joint fact finding is a multistep, collaborative process for bringing together negotiating partners with different interests, values, and perspectives. Here are the five stages through which joint fact finding typically proceeds.
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The Mediator as Negotiation Advisor: Team versus Individual Interests
If you’ve ever been part of an organization team preparing to negotiate an agreement with another organization, you probably have faced this frustrating task: Aligning your individual interests , other team members’ interests, and those of your company as a whole.
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Rare video of a small-claims mediation
Negotiation Pedagogy at the Program on Negotiation (NP@PON) produced a video of an actual landlord-tenant small claims mediation – from start to finish, including side-bar conversations – for its 2009 Mediation Pedagogy Conference. It is rare that an actual (as opposed to staged or acted) mediation is available for instructional purposes. Of the many different … Read More
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- Conflict Resolution
- Case Study of Conflict Management: To Resolve Disputes and Manage Conflicts, Assume a Neutral 3rd Party Role
- Case Study of Conflict Management and Negotiation: Coalitions, Alliances, and Groups in Multi-Party Negotiations
- Conflict and Negotiation Case Study: The Pitfalls of Negotiations Over Email
- Mediation and the Conflict Resolution Process
- 5 Conflict Resolution Strategies
- Crisis Negotiations
- What is Crisis Management in Negotiation?
- Famous Negotiations Cases – NBA and the Power of Deadlines at the Bargaining Table
- Police Negotiation Techniques from the NYPD Crisis Negotiations Team
- Crisis Negotiations: After the West Coast Ports Conflict, Damage Remains
- In This Greece Crisis Negotiation, Tough Conditions May Have Affected the Deal
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Examples of Difficult Situations at Work: Consensus and Negotiated Agreements
- Negotiation Tips: Listening Skills for Dealing with Difficult People
- Dealing with Difficult People: Coping with an Insulting Offer in Contract Negotiations
- Negotiation Tactics for Bargaining with Difficult People: The Comcast Merger
- Trust and Honesty in Negotiations: Dealing with Dishonest Negotiators
- Dealmaking
- Dispute Resolution
- What is Dispute Resolution in Law: The Ins and Outs of Arbitration
- What are the Three Basic Types of Dispute Resolution? What to Know About Mediation, Arbitration, and Litigation
- Conflict Negotiation Strategies: When Do Employees Choose to Negotiate?
- 15 Things You Need to Know About Environmental Dispute Resolution
- Patience is a Winning Negotiation Skill for Getting What You Want at the Negotiation Table
- International Negotiation
- Famous Negotiators: Tony Blair’s 10 Principles to Guide Diplomats in International Conflict Resolution
- Overcoming Cultural Barriers in Negotiations and the Importance of Communication in International Business Deals
- How to Overcome Cultural Barriers in Negotiation
- A Crisis Negotiations Case Study: Chen Guangcheng, the United States, China, and Diplomatic Negotiations
- Top 10 International Business Negotiation Case Studies
- Leadership Skills
- Leadership Styles in Crisis Negotiations
- How to Negotiate in Cross-Cultural Situations
- Ethics in Business Negotiations and in Leadership: How Collusion Limits Value Creating Opportunities
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Leadership Styles: Uncovering Bias and Generating Mutual Gains
- Negotiations, Gender, and Status at the Bargaining Table
- Mediation
- Managing Faultlines Group Negotiations
- Why is Negotiation Important: Mediation in Transactional Negotiations
- Negotiations and Logrolling: Discover Opportunities to Generate Mutual Gains
- Undecided on Your Dispute Resolution Process? Combine Mediation and Arbitration with Med-Arb
- The Mediation Process and Dispute Resolution: Strategies for Overcoming Obstacles at the Bargaining Table
- Negotiation Skills
- Negotiation Training
- Salary Negotiations
- Teaching Negotiation
- Teach Coalition Management in Multiparty Negotiations
- Using Negotiation Games to Develop Skills for Commercial Dispute Resolution
- What Are Our Students Actually Learning? Gauging Effectiveness in Teaching Negotiation
- Teach Your Students Negotiation Psychology
- Subramanian Will Succeed Mnookin as Program on Negotiation Chair
- Win-Win Negotiations
- Win Win Negotiation: Managing Your Counterpart’s Satisfaction
- Win Win Negotiation: Different Cultures, Shared Meals
- What is a Win-Win Negotiation?
- The Importance of Negotiation for Female Negotiators: Women Should “Negotiate Hard”
- The Difficulty of Achieving a Win-Win Negotiation Outcome: Negotiations with Iran
