PACS201 Lecture Notes - Mount Everest, Culture Shock, Alternative Dispute Resolution

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
• Course: PACS201
• Professor: Nathan Funk

Document Summary

~what someone says they want from a negotiation, isn"t necessarily the same thing as their most fundamental interest. ~palestine=national humiliation (no dignity or future, it"s going to get worse, or never going to end) Digging deeper: the search for underlying issues and motivations. ~triangle-top down=positions, interests, values and beliefs, basic human needs. ~tried to develop a concept of non-negotiable human needs that need to be respected in a situation of con ict. ~one sides needs can only be respected and ful lled if the other sides needs are ful lled simultaneously. ~not scarce if there is trust and understanding. ~if people feel their security is threatened, don"t expect them to react cooperatively. ~if we don"t feel that life is progressing, growing, economically, culturally, ~we are excluded-others are developing and we are not. ~humiliated force tries to get the power back.