Part 1 Gender: Getting into the conversations: feminist thought and the transformation of knowledge, Jean OBarr; Preschool negotiators: linguistic differences in how girls and boys regulate the expression of dissent in same-sex groups, Amy Sheldon and Diane Johnson; The gender-based foundations of negotiation theory, Barbara Gray. Part 2 Team work: linguistic models of negotiating differences, Anne Donnellon; Negotiation in context: nobody trusts anybody nowadays, Philip H. Mirvis; Engineering consent in formal organizations, William G. Scott; Toward an improved framework for conceptualizing the conflict process, Walter R. Nord and Elizabeth M. Doherty.