All of usincluding leaders and so-called experts in conflict management and in virtually every other fieldsometimes make (retrospectively) unwise decisions related to conflict with others. These decisions can produce undesirable outcomesfrom missed opportunities, suboptimal agreements, and damaged relationships, to interpersonal violence, terrorism, state-sponsored war, and the accompanying suffering.

In Managing Conflict Mindfully: Don't Believe Everything You Think, law professor Leonard Riskinwho has pioneered the introduction of both alternative dispute resolution and mindfulness into legal education and law practiceexplains how and why this happens and introduces Mindful Conflict Management, a new framework for understanding and dealing with conflict and other problematic situations by integrating negotiation, mindfulness, and internal family systems. Drawing on decades of practice, research, and teaching, this book extends Riskin's influential (and sometimes humorous) writings and sheds new light on accepted ideas about negotiation.