By Larry Susskind

Nearly two hundred educators and trainers from eighteen countries gathered on May 15th and 16th to share ideas about teaching mediation.  It was unusual for mediation teachers and trainers from fields as diverse as law, family services, public management, business, international relations, urban planning, community development, psychotherapy, and education to share ideas on how and why they teach … read more »

Registration is now closed for the NP@PON Mediation Pedagogy Conference.

Professors Lawrence Susskind (MIT) and Michael Wheeler (Harvard Business School) are pleased to announce a Mediation Pedagogy Conference to be held by Negotiation Pedagogy at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (NP@PON). This two-day Conference will be held Friday, May 15 and Saturday, May 16, 2009, on the campus … read more »

The Negotiation Pedagogy Annotated Bibliography is a comprehensive collection of references to published books, articles, and chapters directly related to the teaching of negotiation, mediation, and related subjects. Created in the RefWorks® database, the bibliography includes more than 200 references and is searchable by author, descriptor, or periodical title (see the drop-down list under “Search” in the upper left corner) … read more »

NP@PON is involved a range of activities including research, curriculum development, training, and networking among those interested in negotiation pedagogy. The formal mission of NP@PON is to:

• Contribute to the growing field of negotiation pedagogy through research and publications;
• Support both experienced and next-generation negotiation educators through workshops, idea exchanges, and other educator-focused events;
• Foster connections between communities of negotiation educators and education scholars;
• Develop and distribute teaching materials that are useful in skills-based negotiation instruction;
• Explore and test the application of new technologies to improve teaching and learning about negotiation; and
• Help PON reach new audiences of negotiation practitioners and students through workshops, seminars, and other educational activities.

Staff
Co-Director, Lawrence Susskind, MIT
Co-Director, Michael Wheeler, Harvard Business School

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NP@PON held a one-day Negotiation Pedagogy Workshop on Saturday, December 8, 2007. The workshop took place on the Harvard Law School campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and featured sessions on new and lesser-known negotiation teaching tools as well as on broader curriculum design and educational principles. The workshop was open to the public and geared toward those who teach negotiation and … read more »

On May 8, 2007, NP@PON hosted its inaugural event, a pedagogy workshop entitled “From Mega-Simulations to Micro-Analysis: Teaching Complex Skill Sets in Negotiation,” in which 30 faculty and graduate student participants examined different approaches to teaching the complex sets of skills involved in negotiation. … read more »