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This is the first textbook to focus on consensual approaches to resolving private and public international conflicts. Global conflict is one of the predominant characteristics of the twenty-first century. Whether arising in the form of transborder legal disputes between individual parties or at a broader social and political level among nation-states, groups, and communities, conflict is pervasive. Consensual processes are essential because of the limitations of domestic judicial processes and the lack of a binding international public process. In consensual processes such as negotiation and mediation, decision-making belongs to the parties. This book emphasizes the significance of culture in the analysis and resolution of public and private sector conflicts. It also considers how the processes used in private, commercial consensual dispute resolution differ in the public context.