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Part 2: William Ury returns to discuss negotiating with difficult people. The co-author of "Getting to Yes" this week turns to practice pointers. Here's what you need to do to get to your Batna - your best alternative to a negotiated agreement.

Negotiation legend William Ury joins International Dispute Negotiation host Michael McIlwrath for the first of two parts. Listen now, because Part 2 will be here soon, on Monday, Dec. 5 In this first episode, the co-author of the essential ADR practitioner's book, "Getting to Yes," discusses building credibility and trust in negotiations; reducing tensions at the bargaining table, and what happened after President Carter asked him to mediate a standoff in Venezuela between millions of President Hugo Chavez's supporters and the opposition.

The International Dispute Negotiation podcast celebrates its 100th episode with a look at the use of conflict resolution techniques in the fight against the teaching of creation science and intelligent design.

IDN Episode No. 99, featuring Gary Born, a partner and chairman of the International Arbitration Group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in London, discussing a pledge that would make arbitration the default dispute resolution process in international commercial matters.

Why not a broader commitment to making international commercial arbitration the default rule--not the exceptional rule but the default rule--for resolving an important category of . . . international commercial disputes between an important category of players? Well, why not? International Dispute Negotiation host Michael McIlwrath's guest in this new IDN episode, No. 98, is Gary Born, a partner and chairman of the International Arbitration Group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. He is based in London. They discuss pledging to arbitrate, similar to the CPR Institute's mediation-centric Corporate Policy Statement on Alternatives to Litigation.

The guest for 2011's first podcast is Jurriaan Braat, a partner in Omni Bridgeway Holding BV, a privately held consulting firm in the Hague, Netherlands, that provides helpits in collecting foreign debt, including judgments, and foreign arbitration awards.

This week's new International Dispute Negotiation podcast debunks the push for products and services to address electronically stored information in cases involving international arbitration. The podcast makes the case that Just Say No is the real answer to questions about E-discovery in cross-border ADR.

In the third of his three-part return visit to IDN, Clark Freshman-- professor at Hastings College of the Law and a consultant with the Paul Eckman Group LLC, both in San Francisco--returns to discuss how to detect when your adversary is lying.

From fear to happiness: Prof. Clark Freshman of Hastings College of the Law and a consultant with the Paul Eckman Group LLC, both in San Francisco, returns to discuss how he trains people to spot emotions in negotiations.

In the first of three parts, Prof. Clark Freshman of Hastings College of the Law and a consultant with the Paul Eckman group, both in San Francisco, explains how he trains people to spot emotions in negotiations. This week, Freshman discusses with IDN host Mike McIlwrath provocations that make negotiators afraid, and which breed contempt. Next episode, he will examine how negotiators conceal their emotions, including dishonesty. And Part III will conclude with a discussion of happiness in negotiations, and what it can mean; which isn't always happy.

In this week's Part II, IDN podcast host Mike McIlwrath, who is senior counsel at GE Infrastructure Oil and Gas, concludes his interview with his GE colleague Jay Brudz, senior counsel overseeing legal technology at the parent company. They discuss the future of legal technology in corporate law departments, and provide an inside look at how one of the world's largest companies deals with legal costs and management issues.

In episode 91 of CPR's International Dispute Negotiation podcast, hosted by Mike McIlwrath, Jay Brudz, senior counsel overseeing legal technology at General Electric Co, discusses the state of the art in dispute management from a corporate law department perspective.

Shortly after the CPR Institute's Annual Meeting early this year, IDN host Mike McIlwrath sat down for a discussion on the future of U.S. arbitration with Thomas J. Stipanowich, academic director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, at the Pepperdine University School of Law, in Malibu, Calif. Tom and Mike discuss in detail how domestic arbitration can be improved with the American College of Commercial Arbitrators' 2009 protocols for expeditious cost-effective commercial arbitration.

Jennifer Kirby, a Paris-based partner of London's Herbert Smith LLP, and former deputy secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce's Court of International Arbitration, returns for Part II of "How Many Arbitrators?" The focus is on choosing a tribunal, and addresses why you want to negotiate for a sole arbitrator.

Jennifer Kirby, a Paris-based partner of London's Herbert Smith LLP, and former deputy secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce's Court of International Arbitration, joins host Mike McIwrath to discuss arbitration strategy.

Caroline Rees, director of the Governance & Accountability Program at Harvard University's Corporate Social Responsibility initiative, joins International Dispute Negotiation host Mike McIlwrath to discuss years of efforts and learning on a very tough topic, making development work better with indigenous cultures.

In the second of a two-part discussion, U.K. author Richard Susskind visits International Dispute Negotiation host Michael McIlwrath to discuss managing law firms and corporate law departments, technology, and the billable hour.

In the first of two parts, U.K. author Richard Susskind visits Mike McIlwrath and International Dispute Negotiation to discuss his unique view of systemic shifts in legal management.

Host Mike McIlwrath's guest for International Dispute Negotiation #84 is Glenn H. Shepard Jr., a medical anthropologist, who studies healing customs and traditions around the world. He has lived with the Matsigenka in Peru, a tribe that deals with conflict in an interesting way. The Matsigenka don't show emotions in public. That's bad manners. Disputes are resolved by first by bottling them up, occasionally with the help of medicinal plants that relieve stress and eliminate the angry feelings. Shepard shares an interesting story about the plants and his own central nervous system. A public beer bash is held. Drunkenness and the court of public opinion provides a route to resolution. Turns out we can learn a lot from this, as the Matsigenka are modernizing their processes with the use of third party neutral-like leaders.

London mediator and author Jane Gunn discusses the principles in her new book, "How to Avoid Bedlam in the Boardroom and Boredeom in the Bedroom."