Part I
Part II
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The Harvard Negotiation Law Review, in conjunction with the Program on Negotiation and the Consortium on Global Leadership, will be presenting this Conference on Friday, February 28th, from 1:00 – 5:00 pm at Harvard Law School in Austin Hall, North Room. The Conference will specifically address and provide insight into … Read More 

Michael Watkins has won a Best Book Prize from the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution for Breakthrough Business Negotiation: A Toolbox for Managers (Jossey-Bass, 2002).

Breakthrough Business Negotiation presents principles that apply to any negotiation situation and tools to achieve breakthrough results. Step by step, Watkins demonstrates how to diagnose a situation, build coalitions, manage internal … Read More 

by Joshua N. Weiss, Brian Blancke, Bianca Wulff,
Rebecca J. Wolfe, Mark Young, and Chang In Shin
Cambridge, MA: PON Books, 2002.

When Spider Webs Unite is the next work in the evolution of William Ury’s “Third Side” concept, originally set forth in The Third Side: Why We Fight and How We Can Stop (New York: Penguin, 2000). … Read More 

Fortalecer El Tercer Lado Para Alcanzar La Paz [Strengthening the Third Side in Order to Achieve Peace]
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In February 2003, the Carter Center, USAID’s Development Alternatives, Inc., the Organization for American States (OAS), and the Central University of Venezuela sponsored a conference on the topic of “Strengthening the Third Side in Order to … Read More 

Video Archive of this Event
Conflict with Iraq
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Panelists:
Roger Fisher
Samuel Williston Professor of Law Emeritus
Harvard Law School

Robert Mnookin
Samuel Williston Professor of Law
Harvard Law School

Michael Watkins
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School

Moderator:
Brian Mandell
Lecturer in Public Policy
Kennedy School of Government

On November 20th, 2002, as President Bush spoke at a NATO meeting in Prague about the disarmament … Read More 

A new book by Lawrence Susskind, William Moomaw, and Kevin Gallagher, eds.
More than 150 international environmental treaties have been adopted since the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment first drew global attention to the dangers of transboundary pollution and rapid resource depletion. The elements of a makeshift international treaty-making system have been pieced together, … Read More 

Streaming Video
Discussion I
Discussion II
Award Ceremony
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The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2002 Great Negotiator Award is Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Envoy to Afghanistan.

Ambassador Brahimi is a universally-admired diplomat whose renowned negotiation skills have been tested … Read More 

Michael Watkins and Susan Rosegrant have won a Best Book Prize from the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution for Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed The World’s Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts (Jossey-Bass, 2001).

Breakthrough International Negotiation, which examines diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, Korea, and Bosnia, was the first title to … Read More 

Mindfulness in the Law & ADR
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Those attending should read, in advance, Professor Kelman’s Experiences from 30 Years of Action Research on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, a 23-page essay. Click here to download.

For more than 30 years, Harvard University scholar Herbert C. Kelman has been working with Israelis and Palestinians to build peace in … Read More 

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View Prof. Mnookin’s remarks.
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Press Release
(published November 8, 2001)

On Tuesday, November 13, two of the world’s best-known negotiation scholars, Harvard Law Professors Robert H. Mnookin and Roger Fisher, will discuss the possibilities and the limits of negotiation in the post-September 11 world. The program, Afghanistan: Negotiating in the … Read More