If an independent Palestinian state is to be established, the zone of agreement is clear and the necessary trade-offs are already known.
For while the parties may prefer any outcome within the zone of agreement to the non-agreement solution, they are not indifferent to the terms of the agreement.
There is an important sense in which any marginal gain to one party within a "zone of agreement" is always at the other party's expense.
Again, while the two parties have their differences, there are some zones of agreement.
We learned about our BATNA (best alternative to no agreement), ZOPA (zone of potential agreement), and the difference between an integrative negotiator (sharing the pie equitably and sharing information) versus a distributive negotiator (who is possessive about information and wants all the pie), and that usually the integrative guy gets screwed.
For example, if categories of dose adjustment were defined in two-unit intervals rather than one-unit intervals, the zone of relative agreement would be absorbed by that of absolute agreement (in this case, the categories would be < -2, -2, 0, +2, > +2, and the contingency table would have 25 cells instead of 49).
One example is Zone of Possible Agreement (Zopa), a social lending network that cuts out the middle-man – the bank – and puts lenders and borrowers directly in touch with each other.
Before you start haggling, establish what negotiating textbooks lovingly call the ZOPA, or zone of possible agreement.
Zopa stands for "Zone of Possible Agreement", which "is the overlap between one person’s bottom line (the lowest they’re prepared to get for something) and another person’s top line (the most they’re prepared to give for something).
Whilst it is possible to identify a 'zone of agreement' between these social worlds, there exists a fuzzy periphery characterised by conflicting agendas, which presents challenges for those charged with inscribing these interests into the pathway artefact.
CO, cardiac output; GEDV, global enddiastolic volume; EVLW, extravascular lung water; conctot, concordance rate including all data points; conc10%, concordance rate using a 10% exclusion zone; LOA, limits of agreement.
