Multiparty Negotiation: What is it?

Abstract

'There are many wise men and women around these days, each of whom is a world's expert regarding some particular anatomical part of the great elephant. What we sorely need are more people with expertise about the contours of the beast as a whole'. Here, Rubin is commenting on something as simple as mediators and other third parties. One can only wonder what Rubin might have said about something as complicated as multiparty negotiation.