Getting Disputes Resolved

Designing Systems to Cut the Cost of Conflict

by William L. Ury, Jeanne M. Brett,
and Stephen B. Goldberg

(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Program on Negotiation)

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Contents

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xix
The Authors xxiii

Part One: Understanding and Designing
Dispute Resolution Systems

1

Chapter 1

Three Approaches to Resolving Disputes: Interests, Rights, and Power 3

Chapter 2

Diagnosing the Existing Dispute Resolution System 20

Chapter 3

Designing an Effective Dispute Resolution System 41

Chapter 4

Making the System Work: Involving the Disputing Parties 65

Part Two: Building Dispute Systems:
Cases from the Coal Industry

85

Chapter 5

Diagnosing and Industry's Problems: Wildcat Strikes in the Coal Mines 87

Chapter 6

Designing a Low-Cost Dispute System: Intervention at a Strike-Ridden Coal Mine 101

Chapter 7

Cutting Dispute Costs for an Industry: The Grievance Mediation Program 134

Chapter 8

Conclusion: The Promise of Dispute Systems Design 169

Appendix

Model Rules for Grievance Mediation in the
Coal Industry (1980)
175

Notes

177

Index

197

   

   

 

 

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