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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.