Solutions without coercion, without intimidation
Question from the Internet:
“Does coercion or intimidation sabotage any kind of negotiation process or does it make both parties willing to make necessary compromises to reach a peaceful agreement?”
You are completely right. We can never achieve anything with coercion, intimidation, forcefully convincing others.
There is a saying, “if you won an argument, you just made an enemy". Our inherently self-justifying, subjective, proudly individualistic nature can never accept that others are right and I am wrong.
To reach agreements, to find mutually beneficial solutions we have to use a unique method, discussing, solving problems through specifically, methodically organized workshops, round table discussions.
With their help participants fully acknowledge their seemingly irreconcilable differences, disagreements and find avenues, common goals, benefit above the differences they can unite by without dismissing, cancelling anything.
And when they reach the unique composite agreement, solution that didn’t exist in any of them individually before, they can even use, recruit, channel their original, opposing opinions towards the mutually agreed solution.