Selected Publications

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Previous publications by Christopher Honeyman

Please note: This list includes only publications up to the beginning of the Broad Field Project. Publications since early 2002 include The Negotiator's Fieldbook (American Bar Association, 2006), four special journal issues, and a number of free-standing articles. Those and more can be found at the Broad Field page.

2001-early 2002:

Here There Be Monsters, by Christopher Honeyman, Bobbi McAdoo and Nancy Welsh (with dozens of colleagues participating) draws together what we have learned in years of work on creating better integration of scholars' and practitioners' knowledge across the conflict resolution field.

Cracking the Hard-Boiled Student, by Jeffrey M. Senger and Christopher Honeyman, is a nuts-and-bolts description of the experiments that led to creation of exercises that "get across" important social psychology findings relevant to practice, but rarely read by practitioners.

Not Quite Protocols: Toward Collaborative Research in Dispute Resolution, by Christopher Honeyman, Barbara McAdoo and Nancy Welsh, describes one of the Theory to Practice project's "moveable feasts" -- an effort to start to define terms on which scholars and practitioners might work together more productively, in the face of working environments on both sides whose influence can be insidious.

Have Gavel, Will Travel: Dispute Resolution’s Innocents Abroad, by Christopher Honeyman and Sandra Cheldelin, describes another moveable feast, to begin to examine the risks created by American conflict resolution practitioners and scholars working abroad -- often, in cultures they don't take the time to understand.

The Wrong Mental Image of Settlement, by Christopher Honeyman, discusses a distortion in what people think "settlement" means --- a distortion that has serious consequences for the field.
System Disorders: Trying to Build Resolution into Managed Care, by Brad Honoroff and Christopher Honeyman, is the report of another "moveable feast" --- this time, examining the huge but often hidden problems created by disputes among health care professionals as well as between HMOs and their plan participants.

Honeyman, C. (2001.) Guide to Dispute Resolution Practitioners and Researchers. The third edition of the Guide was integrated into the CRInfo.org database.

Up to 2000:

Honeyman, C. (1999.) "ADR Practitioners and Researchers in a ‘Moveable Feast’." Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation, June 1999.

Honeyman, C. (1999.) "On covering dispute resolution." IRE Journal, January-February 1999: pp. 13-15.

Honeyman, C. (1999.) "Confidential, more or less." Dispute Resolution Magazine (ABA), January 1999: pp. 12-13.

Honeyman, C. (1999.) "The Incredible Disappearing Profession." CONSENSUS (MIT Public Disputes Program), Winter 1998-99.

Honeyman, C. (1998.) "Frames of Reference." Mediation Quarterly, Summer 1998.

Honeyman, C. (1998). "Not good for your career." Negotiation Journal 14:13-18.

Honeyman, C. (1997). A researcher’s guide to dispute resolution practitioners. Dispute Resolution Institute of Hamline University School of Law, and Mediation Center (Minneapolis). Description. (Replaced 1999 by the Guide to Dispute Resolution Practitioners and Researchers.)

Honeyman, C. (1997). "Theory vs. practice in dispute resolution." Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation, July-August 1997.

Honeyman, C., Pou, C., et al. (1996). Finding and hiring quality neutrals: What every government official needs to know. Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and six other U.S. Government agencies; Madison, WI: Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission.

Honeyman, C. (1995). Financing dispute resolution. Washington, DC: National Institute for Dispute Resolution.

Honeyman, C. (1995). "Two out of three." Negotiation Journal 11: 5-10.

Honeyman, C. et al., as Test Design Project (1995) Performance-based assessment: a Methodology, for use in selecting, training and evaluating mediators. Washington, DC: National Institute for Dispute Resolution.
Overview (a quick look, linked to three excerpts)
Download the full text The Methodology was originally published by the National Institute for Dispute Resolution, and is now available without charge as an Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file by courtesy of the University of Colorado's Conflict Resolution Consortium. Note: It's about 1.85 MB. This takes about 12 minutes to download if you have a 28.8K modem connection. If you don't have Acrobat installed, it is also available without charge.

Honeyman, C. (1993). "A consensus on mediators' qualifications." Negotiation Journal 9: 295-308.

Test Design Project (1993; Honeyman, principal author). Interim Guidelines for Selecting Mediators. Washington, DC: National Institute for Dispute Resolution.

Honeyman, C. (1992). "The future of the labor mediator." Proceedings, 1992 conference of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution.

Honeyman, C., Peterson, N., and Russell, T. (1992). "Developing standards in dispute resolution." A paper presented at the 1992 conference of the Law & Society Association.

Honeyman, C. (1990a). "On evaluating mediators." Negotiation Journal 6: 23-36.

Honeyman, C. (1990b). "The common core of mediation." Mediation Quarterly 8: 73-82.

Honeyman, C., Miezio, K., and Houlihan, W. (1990). "In the mind's eye? Consistency and variation in evaluating mediators." Working Paper No. 90-21, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

Honeyman, C. and Nielsen, D. (1990). "Lakeshead revisited." (Videotape). Association of Labor Relations Agencies.

Honeyman, C. and Nielsen, D. (1989). "Roadster meets dent: An inquiry into research in mediation." (2 videotapes, 2 papers). Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse, Harvard Law School.

Honeyman, C. (1988). "Five elements of mediation." Negotiation Journal 4: 149-158.

Honeyman, C. (1987). "In defense of ambiguity." Negotiation Journal 3: 81-86.

Honeyman, C. (1986). "Bias and mediators' ethics." Negotiation Journal 2: 175-178.

Honeyman, C. (1985). Patterns of bias in mediation. Journal of Dispute Resolution, vol. 1985, 141-149.

Many of the above writings are widely used, and cited throughout the dispute resolution field. For details and permissions, please contact Chris Honeyman directly.

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