Close to 20 years ago (in fact, in 1995) a group of us met in Cambridge, MA, under the auspices of the Program on Negotiation’s public/practice offshoot, to talk about just one question, roughly paraphrased – what’s left of the “Harvard model” of negotiation once you add culture? In part this was a response to [...]
Archive for the ‘Dialogue’ Category
Telling stories
Posted in ADR, Culture, Dialogue, Mediation, Negotiation on May 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Governor Cuomo’s negotiation
Posted in Dialogue, Negotiation, Rights on July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This post serves merely to provide a link to Robert Benjamin’s new article on mediate.com, commenting on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s negotiation that led to the recent passage of the New York Marriage Equality Act. The article is valuable (and of course isn’t about “mediation in Asia”) because of Bob’s analysis of Gov. Cuomo’s partisan negotiation [...]
Dialogues
Posted in Asia, Dialogue, Mediation on July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The idea is catching on: using our capacities for language, conversation, talking, engaging with each other . . . might actually make a difference. Legal anthropologist Simon Roberts referred years ago to the choices we have between fighting and talking (in Order & Dispute, Penguin, 1979). And everywhere we turn there seems to be a [...]
The Asian/ASEAN way: talking about rights?
Posted in Culture, Dialogue, Rights on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The creation of the ASEAN Inter-Governmental Commission on Human Rights marks a substantial step in the history of ASEAN, and an important move towards the recognition and enforcement of human rights. In this note, I’m less concerned with the substantive issues of human rights, but rather with – as the blog title suggests – the [...]
ICT, dialogue and dispute resolution
Posted in Dialogue, ODR on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“New means of moving information will alter any power structure.” Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media The other track this blog will follow deals with the role of Information Communication Technology and conflict/dispute mitigation. The “civil” track of this concerns online dispute resolution – which is now well-established (more at another time on this). The other track [...]
Disputes, dialogues and conversations
Posted in ADR, Dialogue on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the sea changes that can be detected in recent times is the growing interest in dialogue (and its perhaps more social counterpart, conversation) as part of the dispute resolution scene. This is perhaps not so new – but its links with dispute resolution might be. Some years ago David Bohm and colleagues wrote [...]
