The Camp David Accords were a pair of landmark 1978 political agreements between Egypt and Israel which became the foundation of a peace treaty between the two countries the next year. As a result, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin also won a Nobel Prize. The negotiations were conducted at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland and mediated by the American President Jimmy Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. However, Getting to Yes author Roger Fisher also participated in drafting this agreement according to the one-text procedure. He and his coauthors use the Camp David Accords as an example of both the value of mediation and the immense power of negotiation.
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Chapter 3: Focus on Interests, Not Positions
One example of why interests are fundamentally more important than positions is the 1978 Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, which had been occupying Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula for more than a...
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Chapter 7: What If They Won’t Play? (Use Negotiation Jujitsu)
...in the first place. For instance, this is why the United States mediated the 1978 Camp David Summit between Israel and Egypt. Large organizations like the United Nations use the one-text procedure...
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