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Introduction:
Jayne Docherty's advice to interveners: Be cognizant of the fact
that your intervention will never be perfect. She has done extensive research on
the FBI-Branch Davidian standoff at Waco. She says that though they had the best
negotiation technology available at the time, their intervention was far from
perfect.
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Advice to Interveners
Jayne Docherty
Eastern Mennonite University
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Don't think you're ever going to do the perfect process; nobody ever will.
One of the things I've tried to be extremely clear with the FBI negotiators, is
they were using in 1993 the very best barricade negotiating processes and
practices that were available. We didn't know what we know now. Nobody — if they had gone
to the negotiation literature, if they'd gone to the Harvard Negotiation Project, if
they'd gone to George Mason's Conflict Resolution Program — nobody had a
step-by-step easy answer for them. And the difference between their failure and
the mistakes that they made and the mistakes that I might make in an
environmental conflict is that they have dead people and I have dead trees, and
nobody notices the dead trees, and everybody notices the dead people. So let us
all be clear that we will never run a perfect process.
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