William Ury
Appearances
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Top Takeaways of 2024 (#232)
The thought experiment I conducted when I was a graduate student was, what if I was an anthropological fly on the wall of a Middle East peace negotiation? How would I know it was going well or poorly? You know, it was things like, well, if it's going poorly, people are focused just on the past. They're engaged in a blame game. The question is who's right, who's wrong.
3 Takeaways
Top Takeaways of 2024 (#232)
And if it's going well, people are focused on the future, like what are we going to do tomorrow morning to immediately rate the situation? How are we going to create an opening in this seemingly difficult conflict? So those kinds of things would be immediate indicators of whether a negotiation was closing down possibilities or opening up possibilities, even in the most difficult situation.