Essay: Mediation – Negotiation by Other Moves, by Aurélien Colson (E98)

In a world ridden by social divisions, responsible resolution of conflicts is more timely than ever. What happens when parties are unable to negotiate an agreement together? The next move is to invite a third party to reset the negotiations, facilitate the exchanges, rebuild a working relationship and empower the parties to explore the past, surface their present needs, invent, evaluate and choose the best solutions for the future. In other terms: when negotiation fails, mediation avails other moves for an amicable resolution. 

Whether you are a current or future mediator or a party to a conflict, this book is your essential companion to the theory, concepts, and best practices of mediation. It brings decades of critical analysis and experience that the authors tested worldwide in international organizations, governments, NGOs, universities and corporations. It provides models and principles from various domains (family, business & labor, public affairs, international relations), a mediation framework, a step-by-step approach to a mediation session, mediation traps and how to avoid them, and ethics outlooks. 

Mediation – Negotiation by Other Moves
Aurélien Colson (E98), Alain Lempereur, Jacques Salzer, Michele Pekar and Eugene B. Kogan
Wiley Publishing
368 pages
€36,90

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