Description
Retired Foreign Service Officer Molly Williamson served as Chief of Mission and Consul General in Jerusalem during the Madrid Peace Process which culminated in the Oslo Accords. Williamson will explore key factors challenging negotiations, using examples from Middle East talks. How do negotiators navigate: agreeing on the issues to be addressed, the issues of time and timing, cross cultural (mis)understandings, tools to deal with mistrust, the impotence of power, unintended consequences, when to walk away?
