Student Events

PON organizes a large number of events each month to give students, academics, practitioners and the public the opportunity to engage in discussions with leading scholars in the field. These events include Dispute Resolution Forums (DRF), the Kelman Seminar Series, the PON Film Series, and the PON Brown Bag Lunch Series.

The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts

Filed in Conflict Resolution, Events, Student Events, Students

“The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts”
with
Dr. Peter T. Coleman
Director of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution
and Professor of Psychology and Education
at Columbia University
 
When: Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Time: 12 – 1 p.m.

Where: Wasserstein Hall, Room B10, Harvard Law School Campus
Please bring your lunch. Drinks and desserts provided.
One … Read More 

Systems Thinking and Peacebuilding: A New Frontier?

Filed in Conflict Resolution, Daily, Events, International Negotiation, Student Events, Students

“Systems Thinking and Peacebuilding: A New Frontier?”
with
Robert Ricigliano
Director of the Institute of World Affairs,
Center for International Education
at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
 
When: Thursday, April 5, 2012

Time: 12 – 1:15 p.m.

Where: Wasserstein Hall, Room 2009, Harvard Law School Campus
Please bring your lunch. Drinks and desserts provided.
Policymakers, practitioners, and academics have seized on … Read More 

Religious fundamentalism in Palestine and Israel and its impact on women

Filed in International Negotiation, Middle East Negotiation Initiative, Student Events, The Kelman Seminar

“Religious Fundamentalism in Palestine and Israel
and its Impact on Women”
with

Laila Atshan
Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government
and psychologist in Palestine
and
Dina Kraft
Free lance journalist based in Tel Aviv, Israel and Nieman Fellow 
 
Date: Monday, January 30, 2012
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM
Where: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Knafel Building North, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room N-262 (Bowie Vernon Room).
Contact Chair: Donna … Read More 

Negotiation as the Art of Interaction

Filed in Events, Negotiation Skills, Student Events

“Negotiation as the Art of Interaction”
A workshop with
Professor Alisher Faizullaev
Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Tufts University

When: Friday, December 9
Time: 12:00 — 1:30 p.m.
Where: Pound Hall, Room 334, Harvard Law School Campus
Please bring your lunch. Drinks and desserts provided.

No negotiation happens without interaction between negotiators, but there are many concepts, ways and forms of organizing and executing interaction. … Read More 

Dr. William Ury and Dr. Gary Slutkin speak at the PON screening of The Interrupters

Filed in Crisis Negotiations, PON Film Series, Student Events

The Program on Negotiation Film Series recently screened The Interrupters, a documentary film that follows three “violence interrupters” as they work to prevent violence in Chicago’s neighborhoods. The interrupters are outreach workers who were once notorious for their past gang-related experience, but who now work for an organization called CeaseFire, an initiative of the Chicago … Read More 

PON Film Series presents “The Interrupters”

Filed in Conflict Resolution, Negotiation and Nonviolent Action, PON Film Series, Student Events

The PON Film Series presents
 
 
“The Interrupters”
followed by a post-screening discussion with
William Ury, co-author of Getting to YES &
Gary Slutkin, Executive Director of Chicago’s Ceasefire
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School Campus
The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago … Read More 

Militias in Northern Ireland: Guiding Combatants from Violence to Politics

Filed in International Negotiation, Negotiation and Nonviolent Action, Student Events

PON Brown Bag Lunch Series Presents:
Militias in Northern Ireland:

Guiding Combatants from Violence to Politics
with Rev. Dr. Gary Mason

When: Friday, November 4
Time: 12:00 — 1:30 p.m.
Where: Pound Hall, Room 108 (Baker), Harvard Law School Campus
Please bring your lunch. Drinks and desserts provided.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Rev. Dr. Gary Mason has spent 24 years as a Methodist pastor in … Read More 

World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements

Filed in Conflict Resolution, Events, Negotiation and Nonviolent Action, PON Film Series, Student Events

“World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements”
A film screening & discussion with innovative teacher John Hunter and filmmaker Chris Farina.

Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Time: 7:15 PM

Location: Langdell North, Harvard Law School Campus

For over thirty years, a public school teacher in Virginia has been teaching his students the work of peace through a remarkable exercise … Read More 

Beyond diplomacy: Embedding peace and conflict transformation processes in Nepal and Lebanon

Filed in International Negotiation, Student Events, The Kelman Seminar

“Beyond diplomacy:  Embedding peace and conflict transformation processes in Nepal and Lebanon”

 with

Jeff Seul
Chairman, Peace Appeal Foundation
and

Martin Wahlisch
International Lawyer and Researcher, Common Space Initiative (Beirut) 
 
Date: November 8, 2011
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM
Where: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
1737 Cambridge Street, Room K-354, Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).

Speaker Bios
Jeff Seul, Chairman of the Peace Appeal Foundation, is a partner in … Read More 

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