The first thing I learned about negotiating between rival gangs is that the old rules don't work. The only way to stop those wars was to change the process, and create a community.Inventive Negotiation demonstrates exactly how it's done, no matter who or what is in conflict. Reading these stories can change the way you work with others. It might even change the world.

Father Gregory Boyle
. CEO Homeboy Enterprises, author of Tattoos on the Heart

PATHS TO PEACE

The ability to imagine is the largest part of what you call intelligence. You think the ability to imagine is merely a useful step on the way to solving a problem or making something happen. But imagining it is what makes it happen.

—Michael Crichton, Sphere

Here we integrate AI with techniques of inventive negotiation and an axiom of international relations (that is, "Trade Causes Peace") to assert new ideas for a series of current international and domestic conundrums.

Methodology

In each case, we started by asking www.Claude.AI to read two articles:

"Inventive Negotiation," a summary of our book AND?, see https://escholarship.org/content/qt1z11k0gz/qt1z11k0gz.pdf; and
"Trade Causes Peace," see https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2bq0j0dm.

The prompts we used for each conundrum listed below are included ahead of Claude's recommendations. We do not edit the recommendations (or translations thereof). Claude does not provide immediate solutions. Rather it just suggests pathways for building peace. And, of course, all AI approaches are susceptible to mistakes. The strong suits of AI are the comprehensiveness of issues considered and its generally impassionate analyses. Some of Claude's ideas may seem crazy. But even crazy ideas can be an important part of innovation processes. As we describe in AND?:

"We encouraged everyone to consider crazy ideas and work in short bursts to get as many ideas on the table as possible... It was some of those crazy ideas that led to the breakthrough."

Conundrums and Paths to Peace

The conundrums and paths we have so far posted are listed below by geography. Click on each.

Translations:

AND? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7524j2vk English

和？https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5sx9p9zq Chinese

I? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/66r437rg Ukrainian

И? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3p8455rk Russian

و؟ https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vg6n36s Arabic

VÀ? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7w94x537 Vietnamese

و؟ https://escholarship.org/uc/item/94s30274 Persian