Thanks to funding offered by the JAMS Foundation, we were able to produce a book ( Rethinking Negotiation Teaching: Innovations for Context and Culture) within one year of the project's first public initiative in May 2008 in Rome. Also, through prearrangement with Negotiation Journal, we knew that its April 2009 edition would be essentially devoted to the outcome of these discussions. The two publications are complementary.
- Rethinking Negotiation Teaching: Innovations for Context and Culture (DRI Press)
- Negotiation Journal, Volume 25, Issue 2 (April 2009): Special Section
The software-derived imagery of version 1.0, version 2.0, etc., seems appropriate for an effort that logically can never reach more than an interim conclusion, if our field is to continue to develop. It also allows for the concept of a beta or test version. Indeed, the 30 writings that make up the first year's output of the initiative might best be understood as a beta version of what will come over the next few years.
Subject to the request for interdisciplinary collaboration where possible, our colleagues were given great latitude to decide for themselves what topic or what approach seemed most attractive and most appropriate to write about for this first year of the effort. Several of our colleagues found themselves rethinking fundamental aspects of our field and its teaching. As with the other themes adopted by other colleagues, we have divided these broad-concept pieces between this book and the special Journal issue in a fashion that we believe presents a cohesive set in each venue. As project participants draft new scholarship and create new "second generation" teaching tools, they will be added to subsequent editions of the project book.
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