Author: Eileen Babbitt, Professor of International Conflict Management Practice at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

The pursuit of human rights can be helped along by paying more attention to the principles of conflict transformation. This piece shows how countries that have known violent internal conflict can use the negotiating of a constitution … Read More 

Adapted from “Rolling the Dice in Court,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

Going to trial, it’s said, is like rolling the dice. That proved true in June 2006, when an exasperated federal judge, the Honorable Gregory A. Presnell, ordered litigants to play a game of Rock Paper Scissors if they could not privately resolve their … Read More 

CNBC’s television series Collaboration Now featured Professor Deepak Malhotra discussing how successful collaboration can help companies overcome barriers that are holding them back and meet the needs of demanding customers. In this video, you can find examples of collaboration, including how the American trucking company YRC is making inroads across the globe, and how, with … Read More 

Multiparty Negotiation by Lawrence Susskind and Larry Crump (2008) won the International Association for Conflict Management’s 2008-2009 Outstanding Book Award at the 23rd annual IACM Conference last week.

The IACM committee stated that:

- This book is one of the most ambitious set of readings in recent memory, along side the Druckman and Diehl volumes on Conflict … Read More 

Adapted from “Framing a Negotiation to Foster Cooperation,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

Sometimes in negotiation, against all apparent odds, peace breaks out. Union leaders and management reach a last-minute agreement that averts a work stoppage. Litigants settle their differences as they mount the courthouse steps. Everyone breathes a sigh of relief and moves on.

But … Read More 

Adapted from “First, Empathize with Your Adversary,” by Susan Hackley (managing director, Program on Negotiation), first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

Jamil Mahuad, a former mayor of Ecuador’s capital, Quito, was elected president of Ecuador in 1998. For many years, his country had battled with Peru over a disputed border. With his own skills and … Read More 

“The Future of Cuba, Cuban-Americans,
and the U.S. Government:
Reconciliation or War Crime Tribunals and Property Restitution?”

with

Jorge I. Dominguez
and
Anita Snow

Date: May 4, 2010

Time: 4-6 PM
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, Room N-354*, Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).
*Please note this event is not in the usual room.

Speaker Bios

Jorge I. Domínguez is … Read More 

In an age of terror, our national leaders face this sort of question every day. Should we negotiate with the Taliban? Iran? North Korea? What about terrorist groups holding hostages?”

In his new book, Bargaining with the Devil: When to Negotiate, When to Fight, Robert Mnookin, Chair of the Program on Negotiation … Read More 

The PON Film Series has shown nearly 50 films over the past several years at events that are open to students and the public. On December 8, the PON Film Series had a “world premiere” of several short films about the Abraham Path Initiative, a hiking trail being developed in the Middle … Read More 

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and Program on Negotiation
Present
The Right Honorable Shaun Woodward, MP
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
on
“Northern Ireland Peace Process: What Then, What Now, What Next?”

Date: Wednesday, December 2nd
Place: Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor Taubman Building
Harvard Kennedy School Campus
Time: … Read More