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.

Program on Negotiation Open House

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Interested in negotiation and conflict resolution?

Meet students, faculty and others interested in Alternative Dispute Resolution at PON’s annual Open House! Free food and drinks, and information about ways for students to get involved.
Brief presentations at 7:30 pm.

The negotiation social event of the year!

For more info, contact Sarah Whitman at swhitman@law.harvard.edu or 617-495-9689. … Read More 

Resolving Environmental Conflict through Traditional Peacemaking

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Over generations, isolation and assimilation pressures have threatened the self-sufficiency, health and cultural survival of Navajo Nation – an area the size of West Virginia with more than 250,000 residents on the Arizona-New Mexico border. Resource management problems of various kinds require urgent attention. Ineffective law enforcement has left the community divided over important land … Read More 

Dispute Systems Design Across Context and Continents

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Please join us to learn more about dispute systems design and engage in what we anticipate will be a lively and thoughtful series of discussions. The Symposium is open to the public and admission is free.

Please RSVP by March 3 to hnlr@law.harvard.edu.

Featuring leading scholars and practitioners, including:

Ken Feinberg
Special Master of the Federal September 11th Victim
Compensation … Read More 

PON 4th Annual Internship Fair

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Are you interested in gaining valuable work experience in the field of negotiation and dispute resolution? Come to the PON Internship Fair to meet representatives of organizations that are recruiting interns and research assistants.

Recruiters will briefly introduce their organizations and the available internships at 5:00 P.M. sharp, following which students will be able to circulate … Read More 

Student Interest Group Fireside Chat with Prof. Lawrence Susskind

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Lawrence Susskind, Director of MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program and Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT.

Professor Lawrence Susskind, a co-founder of PON, is currently Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, Director of the Environmental Policy and Planning Group at MIT, and Director of the Consensus Building Institute, a not-for-profit that provides environmental … Read More 

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