When has negotiation worked?

Question

Let's think back...
WW2
WW1
US Civil war
US revolutionary war
just to start...
Negotiation is for men who have been relegated to sheness.

Answer 1

Sometimes force is the only thing people understand.

So I take it you're singing up with the military so you can help get the point across?

Answer 2

Negotiation has worked hundreds of trillions of times in human affairs.

Of course, people have to be willing to negotiate or it doesn't happen at all.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Negotiation is for the intelligent (which is why Bush can't handle it).

Answer 3

Cuban missile crisis. Kennedy told the Russians to get the missiles out of Cuba or go to war.
That was the terms of the negotiations.

Answer 4

It worked when President Carter brought the presidents of Egypt and Israel together at Camp David in the late 70's The 2 countries have been at peace ever since then

Answer 5

Negotiations are the only thing that have stopped Israel and the Middle East from becoming a parking lot..Also, I guess you missed the entire Cold War...Violence is for the weak minded.

Answer 6

negotion help bring to sides in the north ireland conflict to the table now they are power sharing the government
didnt negotiation between the blacks and whites in south africa stop appartied and stop the country fragmentinginto a terrible civel war
also ghandi used negotiation to get the brits out of india

Answer 7

I remember the DI in Bootcamp saying "You will negotiate this obstacle course in less than 2 minutes or I personally kill you"

Fortunately for the DI all the wooses died of natural causes.

Go big Red Go

Answer 8

The point of negotiating is to prevent a war. And I don't think that Reagan was a 'she'

Answer 9

Negotiations worked during the Cuban Missle crisis.

Answer 10

Brainiac - Cuban Missle Crisis? The examples you cite are for those times when negotiations failed. Smart one, you are - just kidding.