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Win-Win / Win-Lose / Lose-Lose Situations
The terms, "Win-Win," "Win-Lose," and "Lose-Lose" are basic concepts in dispute resolution. They are game theory terms that refer to the possible outcomes of a game or dispute involving two sides, and more importantly, what the implications of those outcomes are.
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Small Scale Reconciliation -- Part 5: Take Advantage of Opportunities for Mutually-Beneficial Joint Actions
This is the last of five videos on small-scale, bottom up reconciliation. Here we discuss negotiating in the context of intractability.
BI Article
Creating and Claiming Value
In any negotiation, the parties decide whether to be competitive or cooperative. However, some theorists argue that this is a false dichotomy--that all negotiations involve both.
Colleague Activities
Break a Competitive Cycle with Win-Win Negotiation Strategies
BI Article
Positive-Sum / Zero-Sum / Negative-Sum Situations
The three terms refer to possible ways resources can be divided. They relate closely (but are not equivalent to) win-win, win-lose, and lose-lose conflicts.
Colleague Activities
The End of Zero-Sum Thinking?
A new blog from our friend Chip Hauss looking at how many of us are framing our problems as win-lose, when they are actually potentially win-win.
Colleague Activities
Non-Party Government: Bipartisan Lawmaking and Party Power in Congress
News and Opinion
What Biden Needs to Tell Us
From David Brooks, a must-read essay about how both the left and the right have abandoned win-win politics -- the idea that our problems can be solved in mutually beneficial ways.
News and Opinion
Why the United States needs to stop being a nation of losers.
For a time in which politics is viewed in mostly win-lose (rather than win-win) terms, reflections on the fact that most of us tend to think that we are losing.
News and Opinion
How Bipartisanship Has Worked in the Past: Case Studies