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In this Article we propose a general framework for analyzing and classifying all conflict resolution procedures, including, of course, all procedures employed in the legal process.

— John Thibaut

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Power can be maintained at its maximum only if it is used considerately and sparingly.

When there is a range of opinion in the group, communications tend to be directed towards those members whose opinions are at the extremes of the range.

Solutions require thinking through a series of interrelated steps or stages, analyzing a number of rules at each point, and always keeping in mind conclusions reached at earlier points.

The enactment of fair procedures is associated with the belief that one will be able to control one's own outcomes.

In defining the CL the primary intention is to locate a psychologically meaningful mid-point for the scale of outcomes — a neutral point on a scale of satisfaction-dissatisfaction.

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