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20-10-2022
BLOG: The importance of youth participation
The method of SSE bases it analyses of issues and stakeholders on interests. Not power, status or point of view, but interests form the base. Young people have enormous interests when it comes to decisions that affect the future. This group will have to live longest with the societal decisions that are being made today. The energy transition, the tax system, t...
26-03-2021
Lessons from Lawrence Susskind on BATNA
On the 8th of March 2021 the MGA-network organised a webinar with MIT Professor Lawrence Susskind. Prof. Susskind spoke with 75 Dutch MGA professionals about the fifth principle of the Harvard Negotiations principles: ‘Know your BATNA’. BATNA stands for 'Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement'. BATNA is your best alternative; essentially what you...
16-03-2021
Blog: Power and Powerlessness: dialogue in asymmetrical conflict
The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas refuse s to directly negotiate with Israel; local residents stop their negotiations with Schiphol Airport because of preconditions of growth; and when the province of Groningen wants to talk about nitrogen emissions, the famers respond with: ‘We are not going to take a seat at the table with a rope around our necks’. The...
22-05-2019
BLOG: Do poke the bear!
Should one wake up a counterpart in a multistakeholder negotiation involving citizens, governmental agencies and businesses? Should one provide information that is deeply relevant to the issue at hand, but that at the same time may worry several parties or that may put them in a position to be more critical towards you and your ideas for potential solutions? Ac...