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  • Communication Barriers

    Communication Barriers

    Last week, I presented some information on the role of negotiation in mediation. This week I would like to discuss the role of communication barriers in mediation. In their (1988) book, Getting together: Building relationships as we negotiate, Roger Fisher and Scott Brown outline barriers to communication and ways we can improve communication. Communication is…

  • The Role of Negotiation in Mediation

    The Role of Negotiation in Mediation

    Today I would like to present information on the role of negotiation in mediation based on Roger Fisher’s and William Ury groundbreaking text, Getting to yes, and to lay out their central tenets and their relationship to conflict management. Fisher and Ury founded and continue to work at Harvard Negotiation Project and were pioneers in…