This year, the Program on Negotiation expands its Executive Education Series with a unique, two-day Program on Technology Negotiation that addresses the special problems of technology-centered negotiations.

The Program on Technology Negotiation shows participants how to:

• close technology knowledge gaps
• manage high levels of technology uncertainty
• deal with the psychological challenges of technology negotiations
• create and claim value in technology negotiations
• ease high levels of frustration and facilitate communications
• deal with disagreements over how to interpret data
• prevent difficult parties from making the negotiations fail, and
• keep competing internal interests from undermining the deal.

For more information on this workshop, please visit the Program on Negotiation Executive Education Series Website: www.pon.execseminars.com.

Terrorism: Causes, Coverage, and Consequences (September 27, 2005)
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On Tuesday, September 27, 2005, Louise Richardson, Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Charles Sennott, London Bureau Chief for the Boston Globe, led a discussion at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs on Terrorism: Causes, Coverage, and Consequences.

Click here to see the webcast of this event.

This discussion was the first in a series on the topic of Negotiation, Conflict and the News Media presented by the Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and co-sponsored by the Program on Negotiation, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, and the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, as well as Boston area members of the Alliance for International Conflict Prevention and Resolution.

The discussions in the Negotiation, Conflict and the News Media series focus on exploring the relationship among government, news media, and the conflict resolution community in framing and responding to conflict. Topics will examine how conflict is framed and how that influences the escalation and de-escalation of conflict and the public understanding of various responses to terrorism. In general, participants will consider ways to strengthen the capacity to prevent, resolve, and transform ethnonational conflicts. These discussions will also focus on the war in Iraq, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world.

Speakers:
Robert Bordone

The 2005-2006 academic year marks the 30th Anniversary of the Pound Conference at which Harvard Law School Professor Frank E.A. Sander delivered his now famous address entitled Varieties of Dispute Processing. For academics and professionals in dispute resolution, this talk marks the start of the modern ADR movement. Our field has grown and flourished since then. An entire generation of professional school students has now been exposed to problem-solving classes such as negotiation, mediation, ADR, and conflict resolution. As leadership for our field passes to a new generation, Robert Bordone will look at some of the emerging challenges and opportunities that the field faces in its next thirty years. Participants will also break into small groups to brainstorm some of the ways they can contribute to the further growth and development of the field.

Robert Bordone is the Thaddeus R. Beal Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and Deputy Director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project. Mr. Bordone teaches several courses at Harvard Law School, including the school’s flagship Negotiation Workshop. In addition, he is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center where he teaches a course on Negotiation and Dispute Resolution.

Robert Bordone is also the co-editor with Michael Moffitt of The Handbook on Dispute Resolution, a PON book published this summer by Jossey-Bass. He will be signing copies of the book following the discussion. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at this time or via the PON Clearinghouse at www.pon.org.

Please RSVP to Kim Wright, klwright@law.harvard.edu, or by fax to (617) 495-7818.

PON Fall 2005 Kick-Off Event: Forum on US-Iran Relations (September 14, 2005)
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Please join the Program on Negotiation for its fall 2005 kick-off event. PON staff and faculty will be on hand to talk about the program and opportunities to get involved.

After a brief introduction to PON, HLS Professor Robert Mnookin will moderate a panel discussion on US-Iran relations, including how to resolve disputes over Iran’s nuclear program and foreign policy.

Panelists include:

• Ali Banuazizi
  Program in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies,
  Boston College
• Nicolas Rofougaran
  Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
• Brenda Shaffer
  Caspian Studies Project, Harvard university
• John Tirman
  Center for International Studies, MIT
• Jim Walsh
  Managing the Atom (MTA) project, Belfer Center,
  John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Refreshments provided.