Tag Archives: Culture

Conflict Resolution|systems design

The Secretary and the Professor

Conflict Resolution|systems design

The Secretary and the Professor

(Scene:  White Horse Tavern, Hudson Street and 11th Avenue in the Village in New York City.  Roger Fisher is having a beer with Alexander Hamilton, who is nursing a brandy.)  Roger Fisher:  Hamilton, I’ve been thinking….  Alexander Hamilton:  That does not surprise me.  You are after all a Professor. ...

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Conflict Resolution|International|Mediation

A Good Video for Cross-Border Mediation

Conflict Resolution|International|Mediation

A Good Video for Cross-Border Mediation

Last year I had occasion to show a mediation video to a group of senior claims executives of European insurance companies who had assembled in Zurich.  They loved it, and I was reminded just how powerful this video is to introduce the process of cross-border, cross-cultural interest-based facilitated negotiation to business...

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Conflict Resolution|Religion

Quakers and Conflict Transformation

Conflict Resolution|Religion

Quakers and Conflict Transformation

Over the past 18 months I have been getting more and more involved with the "Conflict Transformation Committee" of the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.  That's like Quakers.  Like the oatmeal.  And it's going to get worse before it gets better....

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