ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the authors share their experience teaching an advanced course on multiparty negotiation. They describe what and how they taught, what they think worked, and what they decided to change after the first year of teaching. The authors' theoretical framework will continue to concentrate more on those questions that students need to ask in developing strategies and tactics as participants in multiparty negotiation, rather than as mediators. Two important but contrasting perspectives useful in analyzing multiparty negotiation contexts are the "interested party perspective" and the "process manager's perspective". The authors focus on the key differences between two-party and multiparty negotiation.