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26 Negot. J. 1 (2010)

handle is hein.journals/nejo26 and id is 1 raw text is: Editor's Note Negotiation Journal From time to time, an issue of the Negotiation journal will include a set of articles on a common theme. Often, these contributions are the fruit of a recent conference, as was the case last April when we published a special issue devoted to the next generation of negotiation pedagogy. Then, there are the welcome accidents, as with this issue. The articles you will see here were submitted at different times and moved through the editorial process at various speeds but happily came together at the right time. You will not have to strain to see that most of them deal with conflict resolution dynamics in one form or another. An international authorial team (two from the United States plus four from Poland) sets the major theme in their note on teaching students to grasp and apply ideas from complexity theory. They maintain that under- standing of conflict dynamics must come before any realistic hope of crafting sustainable solutions. To support this assertion, they conducted a pilot study in which some students were introduced to the idea of attrac- tors, which in this context is a term for a self-organizing convergence of behaviors and attitudes that can create patterns that are hard to break. The students were also trained to use a software that can help negotiators visualize both the attractors for any given conflict as well as how changes in the situation will affect those attractors and the conflict in the long term. In a subsequent negotiation simulation, these students more successfully addressed long-term dynamics than did a control group without such training. In the same vein, the article by Brooks Holtom, Katharine Gagne, and Catherine Tinsley describes a variety of curricular materials designed to give students practice in dealing with unexpected change as negotiation unfolds. They remind us that it is not enough to learnfrom negotiation, but we must also learn on the fly within it. To help students develop these skills, they recommend using shocks and rumors to shake the simulation up a bit. They describe new simulations and also suggest ways in which existing role-plays can be adapted to make them more manageably dynamic. There is no need to force a dynamic construction on our two research reports. Both deal with mediation, which itself is a process of learning and adaptation for everyone involved. Jean Poitras, Arnaud Stimec, and Jean- Franqois Roberge present a study of how the presence of an attorney can affect outcomes and party attitudes in mediation. Despite the many fears of Negotiation Journal January 2010 1

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