You can hear the first episode here, taped on November 23. McIlwrath interviews “Getting to Yes” author William Ury on credibility and trust in negotiations, reducing tensions at the bargaining table and even Ury’s role, after a request by the Carter Center, to mediate a standoff a few years ago in Venezuela between President Hugo Chavez’s supporters and the opposition. This podcast is #101 in the well-regarded International Dispute Negotiation (IDN) series of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR). The second episode (#102), on negotiating with “difficult people”, airs later today. McIlwrath is Senior Counsel, Litigation for GE Infrastructure-Oil & Gas, and works out of Florence, Italy.