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"Broad Field:" related publications

Publications stemming from the "Broad Field" project and its collaborations are numerous, and many of the leading figures in the field are among the contributors. There are too many to provide more than the briefest description here.

A special issue of the Marquette Law Review (Vol. 87, No. 4, 2004): This contained 25 articles in the Project's Canon of Negotiation initiative. Please see the Canon pages for descriptions. It became the starting point for the Negotiator's Fieldbook.

Also in 2004, the Cardozo Journal of Dispute Resolution published three Project articles exploring the often surprising regional variations in what is nominally a national-scale (or larger) movement. These are "Boundaries to Practice" (about the conflict resolution culture of New York City and its environs), by Christopher Honeyman and Lela Love; "The Odds on Leviathan" (Washington, DC's culture in this field), by Christopher Honeyman and Carrie Menkel-Meadow; and "Competition in Cooperation-Building" (San Diego's dispute resolution culture), by Ellen Waldman and Christopher Honeyman. All of the Marquette Law Review and Cardozo Journal articles are available on Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw.

The October, 2004 issue of Negotiation Journal included an article, "Skill is Not Enough: Seeking Connectedness and Authority in Mediation", which uses case studies among Aboriginal Australians and in Chinese communities in Malaysia to challenge some commonly-held perceptions about how an effective market for mediation may be developed throughout the West. This article, by Christopher Honeyman, Bee Chen Goh and Loretta Kelly, argues that across sharply different cultures, parties are seeking connectedness and authority from a mediator, two critically important qualities that are outside the skills the mediation field has sought to teach.

Previously, in 2003 the Penn State Law Review published a special issue (Vol. 108, No. 1), with 17 articles that draw from our collaboration with Penn State's Dickinson School of Law. All of the Penn State Law Review articles are available on Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw.

In October, 2002, Negotiation Journal devoted an entire issue to articles stemming from a conference co-organized by this project and its predecessor project. This started a trend for the project, and the series was immediately followed by several more project-related articles in the Journal's January, 2003 issue. The total was 19 articles; a brief description follows. Closely related to the Negotiation Journal articles (listed below) is a series of twenty Proceedings articles arising from the same discussions, which can be found on the Web, "mirrored" at http://www.gmu.edu/departments/ICAR/hewlett/index.htm and http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/dispute/conf.htm

Nine more Project-related articles on a different theme were published in the Summer, 2003 issue of Conflict Resolution Quarterly (an additional one was published earlier, in the Quarterly's Spring, 2003 issue.)

Title pages for the first Negotiation Journal special issue as well as the Conflict Resolution Quarterly and Penn State Law Review special issues are shown below. The title page for the Marquette Law Review special issue is shown on the Canon of Negotiation page.

Negotiation Journal's parent organization (the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School) has described the Project-related articles in the following terms:

Negotiation Journal Special Issue

Taking Stock and Looking Ahead in the Conflict Resolution Field

What don't we know about conflict and its resolution?
What do we need to know?
How would we find out?

Some of the world's best-known conflict resolution scholars and practitioners offer some answers to these pivotal questions in the new special issue of Negotiation Journal, the quarterly journal published by the Program on Negotiation in collaboration with Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press.

The issue (Volume 18, Number 4) includes 15 different essays written by (among others): a group of New York City Police and FBI hostage negotiators; famed labor arbitrator Theodore W. "Ted" Kheel; David Hamburg, president emeritus of the Carnegie Corporation of New York; Jan Eliasson, Sweden's Ambassador to the United States; and Gillian Martin Sorensen, the United Nations official who works directly with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) on a variety of initiatives.

Essays featured in the special issue evolved from the spring, 2002 meeting in New York City of the "Hewlett Centers," the 18 university-based negotiation research centers started with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Serving as guest co-editors for this special issue were the leaders of the New York conference: Sandra Cheldelin of George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution; Melanie Greenberg of the Hewlett Foundation; Christopher Honeyman of Hewlett's "Broad Field" research project and president of Convenor; and Maria R. Volpe of John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York (CUNY) and convenor of the CUNY Dispute Resolution Consortium.

The four guest editors served as co-chairs of the 2002 Hewlett Centers meeting, which also led to three articles (by Harold H. Saunders, David Malone, and Robert A. Baruch Bush) on the sweeping changes that have occurred in international negotiation practice over the past decade. Those essays appear in a section of the January 2003 issue of Negotiation Journal, which also includes a brief introduction by the Cheldelin-Greenberg-Honeyman-Volpe team.

Following is a listing of the contents and authors in the October 2002 special issue:

Conflict Resolution Quarterly has described the Broad Field-related articles in its Summer, 2003 issue in these terms:

COLLOQUY: REFLECTING ON LEARNING MODELS IN THE FIELD.

How Can We Teach So It Takes? (Christopher Honeyman, Scott H.Hughes,Andrea K. Schneider)
This introductory article explains the genesis of the conference from which the colloquy articles were drawn. It overviews the articles and articulates the next directions for several of these projects.

Adversaries? Partners? How About Counterparts? On Metaphors in the Practice and Teaching of Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (Jonathan R.Cohen)
Metaphors are a powerful linguistic and conceptual tool, much more powerful than conflict managers often acknowledge. This article suggests that dominant metaphors in the field should be reviewed and that innovative metaphors that better capture the complexity of conflict be introduced in the teaching and practice of dispute resolution.

Conflict Resolution: If It Weren't for the Client, I'd Have Done a Great Job (Sanda Kaufman, Bobbi McAdoo).
Most of the teaching and training models in the field are focused on third-party neutrals, not third parties acting as agents within a dispute. Although some of the training for neutrals can be useful to educating agents, it is not fully sufficient. This article discusses the training needs for three specific kinds of agent: lawyers, urban planners, and architects.

Having Students Take Responsibility for the Process of Learning (Andrea K. Schneider, Julie Macfarlane)
Wouldn't it be valuable if we structured our dispute resolution courses with the same principles and processes that we attempt to teach in those courses? These authors think so and suggest a variety of techniques and pedagogical processes that enact these changes.

Windows on Diversity: Lawyers, Culture, and Mediation Practice (Michelle LeBaron,Zena D.Zumeta)
Mediators need to develop and sustain cultural competency. Initial development of this sensitivity may come when mediators become much more reflective about their own professional cultures and identities.

Training on Purpose (Robert R. Stains Jr.)
What is our motivation for learning? This author suggests that we should be more attentive to the purposes that motivate the people we train because that motivation is key to true learning and focused application.

Learning About Learning: The Value of "Insight" (Cheryl A. Picard)
Insight mediation, and similar dispute processes, are informed by the philosophy of learning proposed by Bernard Lonergan. Lonergan's model of learning and its application to mediation training and mediation process are thoroughly discussed.

Complexity, Conflict Resolution, and How the Mind Works (Wendell Jones, Scott H.Hughes)
Revolutions in thinking are challenging long-held assumptions in Western epistemology. They call into question many of the assumptions we make about what we know and how we know it in our professional practice.

Is It "Peacemakers Teaching?" or Is It "Teaching Peacemakers?" (Philmer Bluehouse)
This article offers a powerful personal reflection from a peacemaker who has learned much from those he "helps" as peacemakers.