Language Barriers --- Language barriers can hinder the understanding of the main objectives of each parties including their interest. It also sometimes causes mistrust especially where the parties involved in negotiation resort to their local langauges to agree on something before reverting to the main group. It is useful to understand which language will be comfortable for the parties coming to negotiation for proper understanding, trust building and peaceful consensus building

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