Managing Conflict Mindfully

Introduces Mindful Conflict Management, a new framework for understanding and dealing with conflict and other problematic situations by integrating negotiation, mindfulness, and internal family systems.

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All of us—including leaders and so-called experts in conflict management and in virtually every other field—sometimes make (retrospectively) unwise decisions related to conflict with others. These decisions can produce undesirable outcomes—from missed opportunities, suboptimal agreements, and damaged relationships, to interpersonal violence, terrorism, state-sponsored war, and the accompanying suffering.

In Managing Conflict Mindfully: Don't Believe Everything You Think, law professor Leonard Riskin—who has pioneered the introduction of both alternative dispute resolution and mindfulness into legal education and law practice—explains how and why this happens and introduces Mindful Conflict Management, a new framework for understanding and dealing with conflict and other problematic situations by integrating negotiation, mindfulness, and internal family systems. Drawing on decades of practice, research, and teaching, this book extends Riskin's influential (and sometimes humorous) writings and sheds new light on accepted ideas about negotiation.