ABSTRACT
This book shares the accomplishments of a 56-year career as a social scientist. Key themes of the career are divided into three broad topics – negotiation, identity, and justice. The career retrospective in the first part takes the reader on a journey through each of these themes. Studies on bargaining and international negotiation are followed by the research done of issues of identity and justice. Examples of other tensions are between internal (reliability) and external (generality) validity in simulation design, doing case studies or experiments in conflict research, preferences for self-report versus behavioral or observational data, linear and non-linear perspectives, and micro or macro levels of analysis. With regard to training, the challenge has been finding ways to incorporate research-based knowledge as a basis for skill development. These have been creative tensions, motivating me to find solutions that combine the approaches.
