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One barner discussed in the negotiation text is difference in gender and culture. It describes culture as "a cluster of tendencies more prevalent in one group than another" and taiks about how our perceptions of cortain cultures (or genders) can atfect how we negotiate with people of different groups. We may place blame on their culture or ways of thinking when negotiations break down instead of looking deeper to discover the real issues. I currently work in the Dean's Otice of a large College of Liberal Arts \& Sciences at the University of lowa. Our college consists of departments in the hurnanities (Arican American Scionces, Gender/Women's Studies, many foreign languages, etc.), arts (Theatre Arts. Art \& Art History, Music, Dance, etc.). social sciences (Sociology. Poltical Science, Anthropology, eto), and hard sciences (Physics \& Astronomy, Pscyhology. Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, etc). As you can imagine, making collegiate decisions that affect all of these departments can be very challenging as the cultures and interests that make up Biology faculty members will defor widely from those in Classics. When negotiating any changes in the college, big or small, we are constantly running into this culfural barrier and have encountered some departments retusing to come to the table as their interests are so different and feel they can not effectively communicate. Difterences in gender & culture ties in well to a few of the tools in Leading through Conflict, specifically integral vision and systems thinking. I think the botter we. understand and acknowledge all shareholders and their respective cultures, the better we can break the gender and cultural barrier to conflict resolution. We will oftentimes need to learn more about the cultural difference in order to determine how best to nogotiate acorss cultures. Another tool we can use to break down the cultural barariers is inquiry. The more information we can gather on an individuals cultural tendancies through inquiry, the more likely we are to empathize with them and reach mututally beneficial negotsation agreements. Have you ever run into a cultural or gender difference that has affected your negotion? How did you resolve this and would you do anything differently if you could do it over