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July 01 2003

Online Dispute Resolution: Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

David A. Larson

David A. Larson

David A. Larson is professor of law at Hamline University School of Law, 1536 Hewitt Ave., St. Paul, Minn. 55104‐1235 and a senior fellow at Hamline's Dispute Resolution Institute. He is the founder and former editor‐in‐chief of the Journal of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Employment. He was member of the American Bar Association E‐Commerce and ADR Task Force and created the ADR & Technology course at Hamline.

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David A. Larson

David A. Larson is professor of law at Hamline University School of Law, 1536 Hewitt Ave., St. Paul, Minn. 55104‐1235 and a senior fellow at Hamline's Dispute Resolution Institute. He is the founder and former editor‐in‐chief of the Journal of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Employment. He was member of the American Bar Association E‐Commerce and ADR Task Force and created the ADR & Technology course at Hamline.

First Publication: July 02 2007

Online ISSN: 1571-9979

Print ISSN: 0748-4526

© 2003 Plenum Publishing Corporation

2003

Plenum Publishing Corporation

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For a full description of the license, please visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

Negotiation Journal (2003) 19 (3): 199–205.

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1571-9979.2003.tb00778.x

Abstract

Will we ever see the day when the Internet serves as the primary venue for problem solving and dispute resolution? Social science research suggests that our online communication skills will improve as we learn relational behaviors based upon nonverbal cues available online. Dispute resolution and problem solving will move online, however, whether or not you and I master those skills. Our children already have developed effective online relational behaviors and can establish trust and intimacy online.

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