7. The Pittsburgh Principles: Fair and Equitable Trade-Offs

In Chap. 4, we developed a model to identify trade-offs that could be used to build an agreement. The next step is finding out which trade-offs are feasible. We need to identify trade-offs that provide the same or almost the same (within a small percentage) gain/loss ratio for both parties. For example, the trade-off (I12, P6) yields the gain/loss ratios 1.062 in Table 5.​16 and 1.052 in Table 5.​17, for the Israelis and Palestinians, respectively. The values of those trade-offs are within one percent of each other. One could think that if no single sets of concessions can be mapped into trade-offs, bundles of two, three, and more concessions could be used. But in this case, the issues are complex enough to complicate life even more if bundles are created. But the possibility exists.