Al Philosophy. PIZ. Word of the Wise. 11.01.21 International diplomacy is not boys club rant of finger pointing or sconng cheap points or making inflammatory statements of the moment or being the most provacative or most aggressive pandering Diplomacy is rooted in the future, in history. In Positive Persuasive Intelligence (PPI), in Positive Diplomatic Engagement (PDE). in Goodwill Positive Intentions Disagreement (GPID), in Sustaintive Sustainable Improvement of Relationship (SSIR), in Positive Acceptable Negotiable Trade-offs (PANT), in Expectational Dignity of Negotiations (EDN). in Recognition of Adversarial Differences (RAF). and in making Positive Difficult Decisions (PDD) to ones own advantage without belittling, demonizing, denigrating, dehumanizing, demoralizing, insulting, disparaging, discouraging, or defacing the other side or party to the negotiation(s) – making them injured, scared and unwilling to return to the negotiation table. High Level Negotiations (HLN) requires High Level Minded Intelligence Beings (HLMIB), not rooted in animus bomb throwing but Tough Sensible Persuasive Commonality Skills (TSPCS) or roooted In Patriotic Thoughtfulness and Negociative Wisdom (PTNS). Tough times calls for Tough Positive Causality Negotiators (TPCN) or Negociations Toughness is rooted in positive results, not emptiness or negative inflammations
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