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LaMagna’s three prongs – enforcement, education, and prevention – along with Godson’s three types of institutions – civic and school based education, centers for moral authority, and the media – all have different leaders at their helm and different methods and pathways for bringing about change most effectively. Using social network analysis, the key players and pathways within the prongs and institutions can be identified, thereby providing negotiators with the decision makers they must influence in order to be successful. Identifying and then surgically targeting these people will likely allow for a more efficient means of combating corruption because negotiators will have to influence fewer people, leaving the indigenous decision makers to deal with the rest of the population with whom they wield more influence.
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The seven-element model defines every
type of negotiation as the combination (or absence) of seven different characteristics: interests,
alternatives, options, legitimacy, commitments, communication, and relationships.
18 This framework enables the negotiator with a simple yet robust framework to define and measure success, prepare, consider choices during a negotiation, and review negotiations. The systematic negotiator will recognize that the key to choosing the most effective manner in which to negotiate depends upon the circumstances surrounding the negotiation as well as the desired outcome.

Wombaticus Rex wrote:CAN I QUIBBLE, DAUG?

Hmmm....Equally as Effective as violence? So...clicking "like" on Facebook? Participating in online debate @ Reddit? Because I don't really think of violence as a particularly effective means of dissent.

Are there examples of violence working that don't end in Mao-tastic nightmares?

Wombaticus Rex wrote:Are there examples of violence working that don't end in Mao-tastic nightmares?

Joe Hillshoist wrote:

Wombaticus Rex wrote:Are there examples of violence working that don't end in Mao-tastic nightmares?

The "Eureka rebellion" might be considered such a thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Reb ... orm_League

It could be debatable tho, and I don't have time right now, but will over the next few days, so read up about it and give us your take on it.

Hundreds of unarmed women from local tribes in the oil-rich but desperately poor Niger Delta region brought production to a halt recently at pipeline facilities owned by ChevronTexaco by merely occupying the sites. Several dozen village women are still holed-up today.

To make their point, the women threatened to disrobe — a strong local shaming symbol — and managed to strike a deal with ChevronTexaco that will bring jobs and funding for schools, hospitals and other services into their struggling community.

In the past, local actions against oil and gas companies have come from armed gangs who frequently take to kidnapping and sabotage to demand jobs or money.

But experts say ChevronTexaco's peaceful negotiations with the local women highlights the strengthened bargaining power villagers wield and how multinational corporations, under significant international pressure, are increasingly bowing to local demands.

Isabelle Ameganvi, a prominent civil-rights lawyer, has sown consternation among the menfolk of her country by calling on her fellow Togolese women to withhold conjugal sex for a week. The object of her scorn is one man in particular, President Faure Gnassingbé, who took power in a fraud-ridden election in 2005 after the death of his father (who had ruled the country for nearly four decades). Ameganvi has said that an end to the sex strike is conditional on Togo’s men launching protests in demand of the president’s resignation. Ominously, she told a rally of many thousands of women that “if men refuse to hear our cries we will hold other demos that will be more powerful than a sex strike.” Not everyone in Togo is impressed. A local journalist told the Associated Press that Ameganvi’s rallying cry was “not serious at all. It is easy for her to say because she is not married herself. She does not live with a man at home.