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Negotiation Alchemy: Global Skills Inspiring and Transforming Diverging Worlds

Negotiation Alchemy: Global Skills Inspiring and Transforming Diverging Worlds

Author(s): Nancy Erbe

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Copyright: 2021

Pages: 240

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Both interesting and highly informative, Nancy Erbe’s Negotiation Alchemy provides visionary practitioners with the necessary skills to help overcome the challenges that unresolved conflicts pose throughout the world. The book focuses on ways of creating and sustaining “positive peace,” which is more complex and dynamic than “negative peace.” Erbe’s focus on informal community diplomacy successfully demonstrates ways to fill “critical gaps in international capacity” in peace building. Erbe’s book provides an important venue in understanding, as well as contributing to the “quiet revolution” taking place beyond domestic and international legal systems.
Professor Ahmet Sozen, Eastern Mediterranean University

I have known Dr. Nancy Erbe for more than fifteen years. Her teaching skills as seen here are exemplary, having necessary elements of ethics, empathy, honesty, reality, compassion and fairness. These fundamentals are so necessary for effective and lasting conflict resolution. Dr. Erbe is a professor who lives her talk and teaching in the classroom and real world alike. This book is a living example of this great excellence.
Swaranjit Singh, Retired Army Colonel

Acknowledgments

Introduction and Rationale
Course Overview and Pedagogy
Chapter Guide

Section I: “Ordinary” People Are Building Peace with Conflict Tools
Part 1: Introducing Second Track Diplomacy
Part 2: Introducing Skillful Negotiation
Optimally Distributive and Integrative
Proven Research and Theories
Part 3: Introducing Mediation and Its Relationship to Building Democracy
Contemporary Conflict Mediation Bridges Traditional Distinctions between Roles and Responsibilities of States and Citizens
Linkages between Conflict Mediation and Governance
Conclusion
Comments and Questions
Bibliography and Recommended Reading

Section II: Conflict Resolution Can Decrease Violence and Bullying
Part 1: The Power of Negotiated “Ground Rules” When Negotiated with Violent Youth and Monitored by Observant Concerned Adults
Who Listen, Validate, and Problem-Solve
Part 2: The Power of Appreciative Mentoring Gang members and violent youth are as unique and distinct from each other as any other young person and likely require individualized response
Children without protection will seek protection and sometimes unknowingly endanger themselves more
All youth need at least one concerned wise mentor who partners in daily troubleshooting and validates and encourages nonviolent behavior. This mentor does not need to be an educator or adult. Research, however, shows that a positive adult in a child’s life improves the child’s resiliency in the face of risk
Notes and Questions
Bibliography and Recommended Reading

Section III: Facilitative Mediation Sparks Innovation through Skill
Part 1: Diversity Fuels Innovation
Diversity’s Potential for Innovation
Challenges Inherent in Diverse Communities and Creative Problem-Solving
Intentional Perspective Taking Facilitates Innovative Process
Innovation’s Requisite and Disparate Functions
Part 2: Skill Mastery Is Nonnegotiable
Safety, Understanding, and Acceptance Are Likely Precursors to the Emergence of Untested Ideas
Optimal Multicultural Process Is Inclusive with Equal Participation Built on Common Ground
Skilled Listening “Mines for Gold”
Skilled Teams Are the Proven Innovation Leaders
Conclusion
Notes and Questions
References and Recommended Reading

Section IV: Skillful Conflict Process Shows Promise in the Face of Violent Ethnic Conflict
Citizen Diplomacy Facilitates Inclusive Peacebuilding
Lauded Cross-Cultural Process: Top Practices
Survey Design and Implementation (Methodology)
Facilitative ADR Deserves Broader Credit and Consideration
Part 1: Facilitation Is Praised
Advancing Inclusive Dispute Resolution
Top Recommendations for Cross-Cultural Conflict Process
Notes and Questions
Part 2: Balancing Deep Understanding with Assertive Leadership
Inspire Utmost Respect for Self and Others
Worst Cross-Cultural Leaders: Reported Weaknesses
The Worst Cross-Cultural Process: Top Indicators
Most Esteemed Cross-Cultural Facilitators
Find Gold in Every Difference
Top Benefits Reported from Participation in the Cross-Cultural Conflict Process
Empowering Party Capacity
Cross-Cultural Experience and Potential
Notes and Questions

Section V: African Leaders Look to Conflict Resolution for Progress
Part 1: A Call for Widespread Collaborative Conflict Resolution Training to Rebirth Peace
Nigerian Legal Perspective on Contemporary Conflict in Africa
Face-to-Face Communication Has Been Fruitful in the Worst of Scenarios
Widespread Empowerment of Citizenry Is Critical
Part 2: A Real-World Case Study of Empowered Conflict Resolution and Democratic Peacebuilding
Civil Society Provides Requisite Strategic Oversight through Reflective Practice
Case-by-Case Success in Resolving Conflict Builds Necessary Community Confidence
Sustainable Conflict Resolution Depends on Equal Empowerment of All Parties and Eventually Bringing Them Together with an Inclusive Process
Exchange Visits Reestablished Relationships and Began Rebuilding Trust
Direct Mediation with Chiefs Has Been Necessary to Move from Positions to Interests
Community Consensus Has Prioritized the Importance of Establishing Communal Projects for Socio-Economic Empowerment—Going Further Will Require State Collaboration
Parts 1 and 2 Notes and Questions
Part 3: Victim Offender Mediation Can Immediately Help with Intratribal and Intertribal Conflict in Kenya
Kenya’s Conflict
A Vision for Truth and Reconciliation Beginning with Intratribal Tensions
Repair of Harm Must Prioritize Community Development
Learning from and Building on Past Truth and Reconciliation
Civil and Faith-Based Communities Must Hold Government Accountable for Transformation of Relationships
Part 4: Reintegrating Child Soldiers through Engaging Communities in Victim-Offender Mediation That Embraces Indigenous African Tradition
Victim-Offender Mediation Embraces Long-Standing African Conflict Practice
Part 5: Negotiating and Mediating Africa’s Debt Crisis
Mediating a Bankruptcy-Like Approach
Negotiating Help in Effectively Tracing Funds Stolen by Corrupt African Leaders
Mediating and Negotiating Options to the Debt Crisis That Truly Work
Conclusion
Parts 3–5: Notes and Questions

Section VI: Mediation at Its Best Builds Democratic Capacity
Defining Good Governance
Mediation’s Relationship with Good Governance
Part 1: Build Efficient Consensus between Diverse Interests for Sustainability
The Efficiency Illusion
Start with Sufficient Relationships
Design Mediation for Maximum Efficiency
Part 1: Notes and Questions
Part 2: Including All
Facilitate Inclusive Process
Global Mediation’s Inclusiveness
Equipped to Address Critique
Mediation Bridges Difference
Part 3: Balance Power and Facilitate Equal Inclusive Decision-Making
Mediation, At Its Best, Builds Democratic Capacity
Inclusive Power-Sharing Is Key
A Popular Alternative to Untrustworthy Legal Systems
Impartiality Is Pivotal to Good Governance
Create Optimal Conditions
Parts 2 and 3 Notes and Questions
Part 4: Custom-Design Multicultural Responsiveness
Rare Multicultural Responsiveness
Part 5: Safeguarding Transparency and Accountability
Mediation Can Result in Heightened Transparency
Evaluate Potential Concerns
Part 6: Questions Evaluating Mediation
Questions for evaluating efficient mediation of diverse interests
 Questions for evaluating inclusivity (Space is provided for your notes regarding specifics)
Questions for evaluating equal inclusive decision-making (and space for notes):
Questions for evaluating stakeholder responsiveness/mediator impartiality
Questions for evaluating transparency and accountability
Parts 4–6: Notes and Questions
Conclusion

Glossary
Appendices
About the Author
Index

Nancy Erbe

Nancy Erbe has been honored with a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies (social inequalities, urban studies, international studies) Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and three other Fulbright awards: one in Bethlehem West Bank where she helped start the first peace master’s program in the Arab world (multicultural and multi-religious), another in Punjab, India, where she helped start an interdisciplinary master’s program in peace and conflict studies, and one in Cyprus. She is a full-time professor of negotiation, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding and humanities at California State University Dominguez Hills (created in response to L.A./Watts riots) and has taught at UC-Berkeley (where she was the founding director of the Rotary Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution), the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, the University of Oslo International Summer School, Cornell Law School, and the University of Denver. Her mediation and conflict resolution clients include the U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Office of Personnel as well as many state, county, city, and nonprofit agencies. Her writing has been published in several languages by the United Nations.

Both interesting and highly informative, Nancy Erbe’s Negotiation Alchemy provides visionary practitioners with the necessary skills to help overcome the challenges that unresolved conflicts pose throughout the world. The book focuses on ways of creating and sustaining “positive peace,” which is more complex and dynamic than “negative peace.” Erbe’s focus on informal community diplomacy successfully demonstrates ways to fill “critical gaps in international capacity” in peace building. Erbe’s book provides an important venue in understanding, as well as contributing to the “quiet revolution” taking place beyond domestic and international legal systems.
Professor Ahmet Sozen, Eastern Mediterranean University

I have known Dr. Nancy Erbe for more than fifteen years. Her teaching skills as seen here are exemplary, having necessary elements of ethics, empathy, honesty, reality, compassion and fairness. There fundamentals are so necessary for effective and lasting conflict resolution. Dr. Erbe is a professor who lives her talk and teaching in the classroom and real world alike. This is book is a living example of this great excellence.
Swaranjit Singh, Retired Army Colonel
 

Both interesting and highly informative, Nancy Erbe’s Negotiation Alchemy provides visionary practitioners with the necessary skills to help overcome the challenges that unresolved conflicts pose throughout the world. The book focuses on ways of creating and sustaining “positive peace,” which is more complex and dynamic than “negative peace.” Erbe’s focus on informal community diplomacy successfully demonstrates ways to fill “critical gaps in international capacity” in peace building. Erbe’s book provides an important venue in understanding, as well as contributing to the “quiet revolution” taking place beyond domestic and international legal systems.
Professor Ahmet Sozen, Eastern Mediterranean University

I have known Dr. Nancy Erbe for more than fifteen years. Her teaching skills as seen here are exemplary, having necessary elements of ethics, empathy, honesty, reality, compassion and fairness. These fundamentals are so necessary for effective and lasting conflict resolution. Dr. Erbe is a professor who lives her talk and teaching in the classroom and real world alike. This book is a living example of this great excellence.
Swaranjit Singh, Retired Army Colonel

Acknowledgments

Introduction and Rationale
Course Overview and Pedagogy
Chapter Guide

Section I: “Ordinary” People Are Building Peace with Conflict Tools
Part 1: Introducing Second Track Diplomacy
Part 2: Introducing Skillful Negotiation
Optimally Distributive and Integrative
Proven Research and Theories
Part 3: Introducing Mediation and Its Relationship to Building Democracy
Contemporary Conflict Mediation Bridges Traditional Distinctions between Roles and Responsibilities of States and Citizens
Linkages between Conflict Mediation and Governance
Conclusion
Comments and Questions
Bibliography and Recommended Reading

Section II: Conflict Resolution Can Decrease Violence and Bullying
Part 1: The Power of Negotiated “Ground Rules” When Negotiated with Violent Youth and Monitored by Observant Concerned Adults
Who Listen, Validate, and Problem-Solve
Part 2: The Power of Appreciative Mentoring Gang members and violent youth are as unique and distinct from each other as any other young person and likely require individualized response
Children without protection will seek protection and sometimes unknowingly endanger themselves more
All youth need at least one concerned wise mentor who partners in daily troubleshooting and validates and encourages nonviolent behavior. This mentor does not need to be an educator or adult. Research, however, shows that a positive adult in a child’s life improves the child’s resiliency in the face of risk
Notes and Questions
Bibliography and Recommended Reading

Section III: Facilitative Mediation Sparks Innovation through Skill
Part 1: Diversity Fuels Innovation
Diversity’s Potential for Innovation
Challenges Inherent in Diverse Communities and Creative Problem-Solving
Intentional Perspective Taking Facilitates Innovative Process
Innovation’s Requisite and Disparate Functions
Part 2: Skill Mastery Is Nonnegotiable
Safety, Understanding, and Acceptance Are Likely Precursors to the Emergence of Untested Ideas
Optimal Multicultural Process Is Inclusive with Equal Participation Built on Common Ground
Skilled Listening “Mines for Gold”
Skilled Teams Are the Proven Innovation Leaders
Conclusion
Notes and Questions
References and Recommended Reading

Section IV: Skillful Conflict Process Shows Promise in the Face of Violent Ethnic Conflict
Citizen Diplomacy Facilitates Inclusive Peacebuilding
Lauded Cross-Cultural Process: Top Practices
Survey Design and Implementation (Methodology)
Facilitative ADR Deserves Broader Credit and Consideration
Part 1: Facilitation Is Praised
Advancing Inclusive Dispute Resolution
Top Recommendations for Cross-Cultural Conflict Process
Notes and Questions
Part 2: Balancing Deep Understanding with Assertive Leadership
Inspire Utmost Respect for Self and Others
Worst Cross-Cultural Leaders: Reported Weaknesses
The Worst Cross-Cultural Process: Top Indicators
Most Esteemed Cross-Cultural Facilitators
Find Gold in Every Difference
Top Benefits Reported from Participation in the Cross-Cultural Conflict Process
Empowering Party Capacity
Cross-Cultural Experience and Potential
Notes and Questions

Section V: African Leaders Look to Conflict Resolution for Progress
Part 1: A Call for Widespread Collaborative Conflict Resolution Training to Rebirth Peace
Nigerian Legal Perspective on Contemporary Conflict in Africa
Face-to-Face Communication Has Been Fruitful in the Worst of Scenarios
Widespread Empowerment of Citizenry Is Critical
Part 2: A Real-World Case Study of Empowered Conflict Resolution and Democratic Peacebuilding
Civil Society Provides Requisite Strategic Oversight through Reflective Practice
Case-by-Case Success in Resolving Conflict Builds Necessary Community Confidence
Sustainable Conflict Resolution Depends on Equal Empowerment of All Parties and Eventually Bringing Them Together with an Inclusive Process
Exchange Visits Reestablished Relationships and Began Rebuilding Trust
Direct Mediation with Chiefs Has Been Necessary to Move from Positions to Interests
Community Consensus Has Prioritized the Importance of Establishing Communal Projects for Socio-Economic Empowerment—Going Further Will Require State Collaboration
Parts 1 and 2 Notes and Questions
Part 3: Victim Offender Mediation Can Immediately Help with Intratribal and Intertribal Conflict in Kenya
Kenya’s Conflict
A Vision for Truth and Reconciliation Beginning with Intratribal Tensions
Repair of Harm Must Prioritize Community Development
Learning from and Building on Past Truth and Reconciliation
Civil and Faith-Based Communities Must Hold Government Accountable for Transformation of Relationships
Part 4: Reintegrating Child Soldiers through Engaging Communities in Victim-Offender Mediation That Embraces Indigenous African Tradition
Victim-Offender Mediation Embraces Long-Standing African Conflict Practice
Part 5: Negotiating and Mediating Africa’s Debt Crisis
Mediating a Bankruptcy-Like Approach
Negotiating Help in Effectively Tracing Funds Stolen by Corrupt African Leaders
Mediating and Negotiating Options to the Debt Crisis That Truly Work
Conclusion
Parts 3–5: Notes and Questions

Section VI: Mediation at Its Best Builds Democratic Capacity
Defining Good Governance
Mediation’s Relationship with Good Governance
Part 1: Build Efficient Consensus between Diverse Interests for Sustainability
The Efficiency Illusion
Start with Sufficient Relationships
Design Mediation for Maximum Efficiency
Part 1: Notes and Questions
Part 2: Including All
Facilitate Inclusive Process
Global Mediation’s Inclusiveness
Equipped to Address Critique
Mediation Bridges Difference
Part 3: Balance Power and Facilitate Equal Inclusive Decision-Making
Mediation, At Its Best, Builds Democratic Capacity
Inclusive Power-Sharing Is Key
A Popular Alternative to Untrustworthy Legal Systems
Impartiality Is Pivotal to Good Governance
Create Optimal Conditions
Parts 2 and 3 Notes and Questions
Part 4: Custom-Design Multicultural Responsiveness
Rare Multicultural Responsiveness
Part 5: Safeguarding Transparency and Accountability
Mediation Can Result in Heightened Transparency
Evaluate Potential Concerns
Part 6: Questions Evaluating Mediation
Questions for evaluating efficient mediation of diverse interests
 Questions for evaluating inclusivity (Space is provided for your notes regarding specifics)
Questions for evaluating equal inclusive decision-making (and space for notes):
Questions for evaluating stakeholder responsiveness/mediator impartiality
Questions for evaluating transparency and accountability
Parts 4–6: Notes and Questions
Conclusion

Glossary
Appendices
About the Author
Index

Nancy Erbe
Nancy Erbe

Nancy Erbe has been honored with a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies (social inequalities, urban studies, international studies) Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and three other Fulbright awards: one in Bethlehem West Bank where she helped start the first peace master’s program in the Arab world (multicultural and multi-religious), another in Punjab, India, where she helped start an interdisciplinary master’s program in peace and conflict studies, and one in Cyprus. She is a full-time professor of negotiation, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding and humanities at California State University Dominguez Hills (created in response to L.A./Watts riots) and has taught at UC-Berkeley (where she was the founding director of the Rotary Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution), the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, the University of Oslo International Summer School, Cornell Law School, and the University of Denver. Her mediation and conflict resolution clients include the U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Office of Personnel as well as many state, county, city, and nonprofit agencies. Her writing has been published in several languages by the United Nations.

Both interesting and highly informative, Nancy Erbe’s Negotiation Alchemy provides visionary practitioners with the necessary skills to help overcome the challenges that unresolved conflicts pose throughout the world. The book focuses on ways of creating and sustaining “positive peace,” which is more complex and dynamic than “negative peace.” Erbe’s focus on informal community diplomacy successfully demonstrates ways to fill “critical gaps in international capacity” in peace building. Erbe’s book provides an important venue in understanding, as well as contributing to the “quiet revolution” taking place beyond domestic and international legal systems.
Professor Ahmet Sozen, Eastern Mediterranean University

I have known Dr. Nancy Erbe for more than fifteen years. Her teaching skills as seen here are exemplary, having necessary elements of ethics, empathy, honesty, reality, compassion and fairness. There fundamentals are so necessary for effective and lasting conflict resolution. Dr. Erbe is a professor who lives her talk and teaching in the classroom and real world alike. This is book is a living example of this great excellence.
Swaranjit Singh, Retired Army Colonel