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Using Consultations and Prenegotiations to Lay the Groundwork

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• Title: Section 3.3 on Pre-Negotiation
  Author(s): eds. Peter Harris and Ben Reilly
  Larger Work: Democracy and Deep-Rooted Conflict: Options for Negotiators
  Link to: Webpage
  Publishing Organization: International IDEA
  Description: Description of seven tools that have been shown to break through deadlocks in conflict resolution.
• Title: Table 1: Entry Points in the Conflict Cycle
  Author(s): Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall
  Larger Work: Herding Cats, p. 28.
  Link to: Excerpt
  Publishing Organization: United States Institute of Peace
  Year: 1999
  Description: A succinct table illustrating various conflict situations and associated mediator entry considerations.
• Title: Chapter 29: Prenegotiation and Circum-Negotiation: Arenas of the Multilevel Peace Process
  Author(s): Harold H. Saunders
  Larger Work: Turbulent Peace
  Link to: Excerpt
  Publishing Organization: United States Institute of Peace
  Year: 2001
• Title: Section 3.3: Pre-Negotiation
  Author(s): David Bloomfield, Charles Nupen, Peter Harris
  Larger Work: Democracy and Deep-Rooted Conflict
  Link to: Webpage
  Publishing Organization: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
  Year: 1998
  Description: Activities that must happen before formal negotiation starts

Analysis

• Title: Getting In: Mediators' Entry into the Settlement of African Conflicts
  Author(s): Mohammed O. Maundi, I. William Zartman, Gilbert M. Khadiagala, and Kwaku Nuamah
  Link to: Webpage
  Publishing Organization: United States Institute of Peace
  Year: 2006
  Description: This study examines mediators' and parties' motivations for starting mediation
• Title: Ground Rules
  Author(s): Michelle Maiese
  Larger Work: Beyond Intractability
  Link to: Webpage
  Publishing Organization: University of Colorado Conflict Information Consortium
  Year: 2004
  Description: Although sometimes left to the formal negotiations, developing some groundrules in the pre-negotiation process can help facilitate later negotiations.
• Title: Part 7: Designing the Mediation Process
  Author(s): eds. Thania Paffenholz, Luc Reychler
  Larger Work: Peace building: A Field Guide
  Publishing Organization: Lynne Rienner Publishers
  Year: 2001
  Description: Description of good process design, one aspect of which is getting the parties themselves involved in designing the process in a consultation or pre-negotiation stage.
• Title: Thoughts on Gaining Entry
  Author(s): Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall
  Larger Work: Herding Cats, pp. 59.
  Link to: Excerpt
  Publishing Organization: United States Institute of Peace
  Year: 1999
  Description: Text segment on considerations regarding gaining entry.
• Title: Gaining Entry at Different Stages
  Author(s): Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall
  Larger Work: Herding Cats, p 668.
  Link to: Excerpt
  Publishing Organization: United States Institute of Peace
  Year: 1999
  Description: How gaining entry is a different process at different stages.
• Title: Frameworkers and "Circlers" - Exploring Assumptions in Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment
  Author(s): Reina C. Neufeldt
  Larger Work: Berghof Handbook For Conflict Transformation
  Link to: Webpage
  Publishing Organization: Berghof Center for Constructive Conflict Management
  Year: 2007
  Description: This article examines two approaches to intervention planning, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Title: Rolling out the New Strategy: the First Phase of Consultations.
  Author(s): Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall
  Larger Work: Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases, pp. 115-119.
  Publishing Organization: United States Institute of Peace
  Year: 2004
  Description: Consulting with parties before negotiations begin.
• Title: Prenegotiation Organizational Website Search
  Larger Work: Beyond Intractability
  Link to: Pre-configured Search
  Description: Links to articles on Mediation Consultation posted by 100 leading SSTR organizations.

Tools

• Title: Short Guide to Consensus Building
  Author(s): MIT Public Disputes Program
  Link to: Webpage
  Publishing Organization: Consensus Bldg Institute
  Description: An Alternative to Robert's Rules of Order for Groups, Organizations and Ad Hoc Assemblies that Want to Operate By Consensus
• Title: Section 3.4.2 Preconditions and barriers to negotiations (in Developing a Specific Negotiation Process)
  Author(s): David Bloomfield, Charles Nupen, Peter Harris
  Larger Work: Democracy and Deep-Rooted Conflict
  Link to: Webpage
  Publishing Organization: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
  Year: 1998
  Description: Further information on pre-negotiation from IDEA.
• Title: Section 3.4.8 Setting the agenda
  Author(s): David Bloomfield, Charles Nupen, Peter Harris
  Larger Work: Democracy and Deep-Rooted Conflict
  Link to: Webpage
  Publishing Organization: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
  Year: 1998
  Description: Succinct information on ways to set an agenda that is most likely to lead to success.