Culture-based Negotiation Styles
People in different cultures negotiate differently. The make different assumptions about the nature of their conflict, and about the appropriate way of dealing with it. If disputants do not understand and adjust to these differences, further difficulties are likely to ensue. Project participants discuss how disputants and intermediaries can avoid such problems.
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Determining Culturally-Appropriate Negotiation Strategies
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Peter Woodrow discusses how to design dispute resolution systems that are culturally appropriate.
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Kevin Avruch discusses two major types of errors peace practitioners make when trying to be sensitive to culture.
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Kevin Avruch talks about ways intervenors can raise their cultural competency.
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Marcia Caton Campbell advises that mediators should not overlook disputants' own approaches to conflict resolution.
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What should an outsider consider about local culture before intervening? Scholar-practitioner Wallace Warfield explains the debate between the basic human needs approach versus the cultural anthropological view.
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Paul Wehr talks about the importance of "multi-modal," culturally-appropriate interventions.
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Case Examples
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Peter Woodrow discusses his work designing a dispute resolution system for East Timor land tenure conflicts.
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Peter Woodrow describes a Sri Lankan approach to mediation.
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