negotiate

You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.[…]The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

Novak Djokovic earlier had negotiated his own tricky passage through the fifth day.

Jews, Turks, Armenians,[…]negotiating in this famous Emporium.

Certaine it is, shee was a busie negotiating woman.