Acknowledgements
As we survey the stacks of massive contributions in front of us, we realize that the book represents what is known about conflict resolution today. It embodies the ideas, insights, and experiences of some of the best scholars and practitioners of the field.
Pleased as we are with it, we cannot but be aware of the many debts we have incurred in completing a task of this magnitude. It is a pleasure to acknowledge all the people and organizations who have helped us. Above all, we owe a tremendous debt to all our distinguished colleagues and friends who contributed chapters for this volume, and worked within our guidelines and requests without too many complaints. Their contributions have been truly outstanding, and it was a pleasure to work with such a dedicated and professional group of people. Lucy Robinson and Sage Publications have commissioned us to produce this volume. We are grateful to them for their vote of confidence in us, and their continued support and encouragement.Eight anonymous reviewers read through our draft proposal and made some very helpful comments. We wish we could thank them individually, but we have no idea who they are, save that they are masters in the field of Conflict Resolution. We owe special thanks to our International Advisory Board, who in faith backed this project before the results came in.
We must pay special thanks to the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and its Director Leen Hordijk. In many ways, IIASA was the home of the project, and we doubt that it would have been possible without the Institute’s support. Through the PIN project, they hosted all the contributors at a three-day conference at their site in Laxenburg, Austria, in the summer of 2007. The conference was a marvelous opportunity to meet each other in person, share experiences, discuss the strengths of each chapter, and ensure the coherence of the whole enterprise.
We have to single out one particular individual at IIASA, and that is Tanja Huber, the PIN Project Coordinator. From its very inception, Tanja became the indispensable link through which all chapters were channeled, all communications were undertaken, and all arrangements were made. Editing a book of this size when the editors are either traveling constantly or are in three different continents requires a central person with special talents. Tanja had these talents in abundance. We owe Tanja a truly profound debt, and it is a pleasure to be able to acknowledge it here. We also want to thank Isabelle Talpain-Long for keeping the project in order on the Washington side.
Our biggest thanks must go to our families. They did not write any of the chapters, but without their support, understanding, patience, and often forbearance, you, dear reader, would not have held this book in your hands right now. Now that you have opened it, we hope you will read parts, or most of it, and, dare we hope, enjoy the experience.
Jacob Bercovitch, Victor Kremenyuk, and I. William Zartman Christchurch, Moscow, and Washington, DC
About the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Network at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Since 1988, the PIN Network at IIASA in Laxenburg, Austria, has been conducted by an international Steering Committee of scholars, meeting three times a year to develop and propagate new knowledge about the processes of negotiation. The Committee conducts one to two workshops every year devoted to the current collective publication project and involving scholars from a wide spectrum of countries, in order to tap a broad range of international expertise and to support scholarship on aspects of negotiation. It also offers mini-conferences on international negotiations in order to disseminate and encourage research on the subject. Such “Road Shows” have been held at the Argentine Council for International Relations, Buenos Aires; Beida University, Beijing; the Center for Conflict Resolution, Haifa; the Center for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Culture, Kyoto; the Diplomatic Academy, Tehran; the Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Clingendael, The Hague; the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm; the University of Cairo; University Hassan II, Casablanca; the University of Helsinki; and the UN University for Peace, San Jose, Costa Rica, among others. The PIN Network publishes a semiannual newsletter, PINPoints, and sponsors a network of over 4,000 researchers and practitioners in negotiation.
The Network has been supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the US Institute of Peace. Contact: pin@iiasa.ac.at.Members of the PIN Steering Committee
Rudolf Avenhaus
The German Armed Forces
University, Munich
Franz Cede
Austrian Ambassador to Belgium and NATO
Guy Olivier Faure
University of Paris V-Sorbonne
Victor Kremenyuk
The Russian Academy of Sciences
Paul Meerts
The Netherlands Institute of
International Relations, Clingendael
Gunnar Sjostedt
The Swedish Institute of
International Affairs
I. William Zartman
The Johns Hopkins University
Mark Anstey
Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
Selected Publications of the PIN Program
Escalation and Negotiation in International Conflicts, I.W. Zartman, G.O. Faure, editors, 2005, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Peace versus Justice: Negotiating Backward- and Forward-Looking Outcomes, I.W. Zartman, V. Kremenyuk, editors, 2005, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, MD, USA.
Negotiating European Union, P.W. Meerts, F. Cede, editors, 2004, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. Getting It Done: Post-Agreement Negotiations and International Regimes, B.I. Spector, I.W. Zartman, editors, 2003, United States Institute of Peace Press, Washington DC, USA.
How People Negotiate: Resolving Disputes in Different Cultures, G.O. Faure, editor, 2003, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
Professional Cultures in International Negotiation: Bridge or Rift? G. Sjostedt, editor, 2003, Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, USA.
Containing the Atom: International Negotiations on Nuclear Security and Safety, R. Avenhaus, V.A. Kremenyuk, G Sjostedt, editors, 2002, Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, USA.
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International Negotiation: Analysis, Approaches, Issues, 2nd Edition, V.A. Kremenyuk, editor, 2002 Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Preventive Negotiation: Avoiding Conflict Escalation, I.W.
Zartman, editor, 2001, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, MD, USA.Power and Negotiation, I.W. Zartman, J.Z. Rubin, editors, 2000, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
International Economic Negotiation. Models versus Reality, V.A. Kremenyuk, G. Sjostedt, editors, 2000, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK.
Negotiating International Regimes: Lessons Learned from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), B.I. Spector, G. Sjostedt, I.W. Zartman, editors, 1994, Graham & Trotman Limited, London, UK.
International Multilateral Negotiation: Approaches to the Management of Complexity, I.W. Zartman, editor, 1994, Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, San Francisco, CA, USA.
International Environmental Negotiation, G. Sjostedt, editor, 1993, Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA, USA.
Culture and Negotiation. The Resolution of Water Disputes, G.O. Faure, J.Z. Rubin, editors, 1993, Sage Publications, Inc., Newbury Park, CA, USA.
Processes of International Negotiations, F. Mautner-Markhof, editor, 1989, Westview Press Inc., Boulder, CO, USA.