This has been a milestone year at the Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School twice over. First, we marked Frank Sander's formal retirement from the Harvard Law School faculty. Frank will continue to codirect the Dispute Resolution Program, give lectures, conduct research, and inspire us all. He will, however, be spared the ordeal of having to grade exams and papers.
Nevertheless, we thought this was a good time to celebrate Frank's pathbreaking contributions to the field of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) with a series of articles looking at ADR and his role in it. In the first, Michael Moffitt looks at what happened in both Frank's life and work prior to his groundbreaking speech at the Second Pound Conference in 1976 that led to his interest in creating alternative processes in the court system. Ericka Gray assesses how Frank's vision of the “multi‐door courthouse” took root and has blossomed. Stephen Goldberg and Eric Green recall the genesis of the first edition of the seminal text on alternative dispute resolution that they coauthored with Frank. Nancy Rogers, who is a coauthor of subsequent editions of the book, describes the continued development of the ADR curriculum in the nation's law schools. Finally, David Hoffman describes his hopes for, fears about, and predictions for the future of alternative dispute resolution.
This year also marks the silver anniversary of the publication of Getting to Yes, a book that has profoundly influenced the theory and practice of negotiation and whose creation helped give birth to PON. This issue, therefore, includes two articles about the book and its legacy. One is drawn from an extensive conversation with its three authors, Roger Fisher, Bill Ury, and Bruce Patton. It traces their collaboration and the evolution of their ideas, which have become foundational in our field. In turn, Carrie Menkel‐Meadow's essay examines the book's impact and its huge role in shaping the study and practice of negotiation over the last three decades. But she also wonders why its ideas of principled negotiation and joint problem solving have not been more fully embraced. The influence and vitality of Roger, Bill, and Bruce's ideas are illustrated in this issue by a “family tree” of subsequent books that have extended and enriched their model.
The other articles in this issue of the Negotiation Journal also have global reach. For example, Kristine Höglund and Isak Svensson analyze peace negotiations in Sri Lanka to explore the broader matter of trust building. Next, Hal Movius, Masa Matsuura, Jin Yan, and Dong‐Young Kim explore how Western notions of mutual‐gains negotiation can be translated to negotiations in Japan, China, and South Korea. This is a key issue, of course, for American and European businesses seeking partners in that part of the world.
In this issue's review essay, Lisle Baker considers Conflict Management: A Practical Guide to Developing Negotiation Strategies, by Barbara A. Budjac Corvette. Lisle connects the author's prescriptions with other work, including his own, on personality and negotiation style.
Finally, I want to take this opportunity to note that the International Association for Conflict Management has named Doing Research: Methods of Inquiry for Conflict Analysis (Sage 2005) by Negotiation Journal associate editor Daniel Druckman as the best book published in 2004–2005. We want to congratulate Dan for this honor and to thank him for his significant contributions both to Negotiation Journal and to the field of conflict resolution.
