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29 Negot. J. 1 (2013)

handle is hein.journals/nejo29 and id is 1 raw text is: Editor's Note Roger Fisher died August 25, 2012, in Hanover, New Hampshire, at age ninety His contribution to the field of negotiation and conflict resolution was wide and deep. His early commitment to peacemaking was animated by the fact that four of his eight college roommates died in combat in World War Two. Over the course of his long life, Roger played an advisory role in diplomatic efforts to end bloodshed in troubled areas all over the globe. Roger was also committed to sensible resolution of day-to-day transac- tions, from lawsuits and labor disputes to commercial negotiations. He wrote or co-wrote more than a dozen books, most famously Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving in, by far the best-selling text in our field. Practicing what he preached, he often enlisted younger coauthors whose perspectives enriched his own. Roger was also cofounder of the Program on Negotiation, which sponsors this journal. To say that he will be profoundly missed by his friends and colleagues here is true but not accurate. Miss is far too mild a word to capture the depth of fondness and gratitude we feel toward him. It is also off the mark in that Roger is still very much with us, guiding how we think, how we teach, and how we understand the world. When it comes to energy, curiosity, optimism, and goodwill, Roger set the bar incredibly high. Those of us who worked with him were privileged to have such a mentor. We learned of Roger's death shortly before this issue was going to press. We are now in the midst of preparing a special section of the April 2013 issue of the Negotiation journal in which several of his collaborators will analyze different aspects of his work. The February 2013 edition of the Harvard Law Review (HLR) will include tributes by, among others, Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow, who writes of Roger's unflagging commitment to link theory and practice. The puzzles that intrigued him were those that, if solved, could make the most positive impact in the world. As Minow notes, the more hopeless a problem seemed, the more Roger was drawn to it. And it was through those cases that Roger tested and refined his frameworks for analyzing and conducting negotiations. Robert Mnookin succeeded Roger as the Samuel Williston Professor at Harvard Law School and as head of the Program on Negotiation. Mnookin's tribute in HLR salutes Roger's contributions to prescriptive theory build- ing, which was evident in both his writing and his teaching. Bruce Patton and William Ury - both coauthors of Getting to Yes - describe other facets of Roger's nature. Ury describes how, as a young doctoral student, he was stunned to get a call out of the blue from Roger. Roger had come across Negotiation Journal January 2013 1

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