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Part II: Negotiating Skills
11. Tips and Tricks for the Lonely Diplomat
Introduction /
Memorize and keep with you /
Making sense of the reading material /
Preparing for the actual negotiations /
Getting your bearings /
Drafting /
Negotiating /
Optimizing participation /
Monitor the progress of others /
Focus /
From sustenance to diplomatic encounters /
11.8 Optimizing participation
Seek ways of finding out what happened in the sessions you missed.
Identify the sub-group to which you belong; and find dinner or corridor opportunities to see what they are pushing forward.
Make sure to be at the Conference site at 8:00 a.m. to attend your region's preparations for the negotiations. This is also where you will meet people with whom you can discuss and strategize.
If your country is a G-77 member, attend the G-77 meetings which normally begin at 9:00 in the morning during the sessions.
In making contacts keep the existing coalitions of countries in mind.
The names used by industry can be misleading. Sometimes, businesses become members of "green" coalitions and then influences the policies of these coalitions to an extent that they are no longer green and focused. This is a trend to watch out for.
In the long-term it is absolutely imperative to make coalitions with other developing countries and share the task of participation in the informal processes (i.e., division of labour between countries (team up!)).
Explore opportunities domestically to increase the size of the delegation; domestic industry may be willing to finance its own participation and NGOs and academics could try to raise some resources for also joining the delegation.
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