reasons of the above mentioned

Sounds redundant to me. Root: the basic cause, source, or origin: money is the root of all evil.

So this becomes: one of the reasons of the above xyz has its causes in history...

Thank you Julielai!

Can I simply write: ''One of the reasons of the above has its causes...''?

Can you give a little more of the text, Antonia? It would be easy to mislead you, with such a small sample.

MrP

... and reasons together with causes is already suspect.

Hi there, here is a wider context:

Although negotiation has now become ubiquitous and especially important on economic issues at an individual as well as a company or even national level, many people do not consider themselves qualified to engage in active conflict resolution. Some, indeed, even avoid it. This is, most probably, the result of insufficient understanding of the process itse

Just to check: what is 'above-mentioned' referring back to here?

MrP

Hi Mr Pedantic,

Thank you for your post. The above mentioned is: insufficient understanding of the process itself, or in other words, its unnecessary mistification.

Hello Antonia

No, it wouldn't be quite right, unfortunately!

I'm finding the passage quite hard to understand – are you able to give a literal word-for-word translation of the whole paragraph?

Then I'll see if I can find an alternative.

MrP

Hi Mr Pedantic, it's not word-for-word although I have to say everything that is said in the original. Word-for-word is impossible, in theory and practice.

Hi!

The meaning of the paragrah is that although negotiation is today present at all levels in business or everyday life, few people have formal education in negotiation, and some people even avoid it due to fear or ignorance because it (negot.) was unnecessarily mistified. Hope it helps.