Beyond Intractability: A Free Knowledge Base on More Constructive Approaches to Destructive Conflict

Best Alternatives to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA)
	Though he didn't use the acronym, Herb Kelman explains how BATNAs caused Oslo to break down.
	Larry Susskind talks about conflict assessment and option identification.
	Joshua Weiss, Associate Director, Global Negotiation Project, Program on Negotiation, Harvard University, describes the challenge of anticipating what the sides want out of a negotiation and how to effectively prepare as a negotiator.
	Larry Susskind explains how BATNAs determine whether consensus agreements are possible.
	Werner Petterson describes the symptoms of a power imbalance, and talks about what can be done to lessen its destructive effects.

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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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