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R & D Overview

Research & Development Overview

Conflict management techniques developed over the past thirty years have great potential to reduce the costs of conflict. Making daily practice live up to that potential, however, is not easy.

CONVENOR has long worked to help develop conflict management as an integrated field. This "R&D" work has focused on eight major areas:

• Helping organizations to think about conflict before it happens
• Redesigning how negotiation is taught
• Building a real field of conflict management (Broad Field project)
• The relationship between ideas and practice (Theory to Practice project)
• Qualifications and quality control (particularly in mediation)
• Ethics
• Developing infrastructure
• What really happens when there are legal requirements to negotiate (a selection of case decisions, focusing on the issues implicit in "bargaining in the shadow of the law")