Every day in communities across America hundreds of committees, boards, church groups, and social clubs hold meetings where they spend their time engaged in shouting matches and acrimonious debate. Whether they are aware of it or not, the procedures that most such groups rely on to reach decisions were first laid out as Robert's Rules more than 150 years ago by an officer in the U.S. Army's Corps of Engineers. Its arcane rituals of parliamentary procedure and majority rule usually produce a victorious majority and a very dissatisfied minority that expects to raise its concerns,...
Every day in communities across America hundreds of committees, boards, church groups, and social clubs hold meetings where they spend their time enga...
Every day in communities across America hundreds of committees, boards, church groups, and social clubs hold meetings where they spend their time engaged in shouting matches and acrimonious debate. Whether they are aware of it or not, the procedures that most such groups rely on to reach decisions were first laid out as Robert's Rules more than 150 years ago by an officer in the U.S. Army's Corps of Engineers. Its arcane rituals of parliamentary procedure and majority rule usually produce a victorious majority and a very dissatisfied minority that expects to raise its concerns, again, at the...
Every day in communities across America hundreds of committees, boards, church groups, and social clubs hold meetings where they spend their time enga...
This practical guide for group decision-making is designed for people and organizations wishing to operate on a consensus basis. The handbook: stresses the advantages of informal, common sense approaches to working together; describes how any group can put these approaches into practice; and relates numerous examples of situations in which such approaches have been applied. Part One focuses on establishing the ground rules for making decisions and running an organization on a consensual basis. Part Two consists of 17 chapters which describe the various phases, facets and forms of consensus...
This practical guide for group decision-making is designed for people and organizations wishing to operate on a consensus basis. The handbook: stresse...
Multiparty negotiation is a rapidly developing but complex field whose literature is scattered across a broad range of disciplines and sources. This four-volume collection consolidates this knowledge by bringing together classic works and cutting-edge papers from law, international politics, organization studies and public administration.
"Multiparty Negotiation: An Introduction to Theory and Practice
"Public Dispute Resolution
"Organisational and Group Negotiations
"Complex Legal Transactions
"International Negotiations
Multiparty negotiation is a rapidly developing but complex field whose literature is scattered across a broad range of disciplines and sources. This f...
International environmental agreements have increased exponentially within the last five decades. However, decisions on policies to address key issues such as biodiversity loss, climate change, ozone depletion, hazardous waste transport and numerous other planetary challenges require individual countries to adhere to international norms. What have been the successes and failures in the environmental treaty-making arena? How has the role of civil society and scientific consensus contributed to this maturing process? Why have some treaties been more enforceable than others and which theories of...
International environmental agreements have increased exponentially within the last five decades. However, decisions on policies to address key issues...
Lawrence E. Susskind Saleem H. Ali Zakri Abdul Hamid
International environmental agreements have increased exponentially within the last five decades. However, decisions on policies to address key issues such as biodiversity loss, climate change, ozone depletion, hazardous waste transport and numerous other planetary challenges require individual countries to adhere to international norms. What have been the successes and failures in the environmental treaty-making arena? How has the role of civil society and scientific consensus contributed to this maturing process? Why have some treaties been more enforceable than others and which theories of...
International environmental agreements have increased exponentially within the last five decades. However, decisions on policies to address key issues...
