Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi (middle) with James Sebenius (left) and Jeswald Salacuse at Harvard Business School on October 2, 2002
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 … Read More 
Presenter:
Michael Wheeler
Michael Wheeler, Co-Director of the Dispute Resolution Program, Editor of Negotiation Journal, and a member of the PON Steering Committee, is the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. Professor Wheeler will discuss his on-going collaborative work with other faculty to study the identification and management of critical moments, … Read More
Presenter:
David A. Hoffman
The practice of mediation and other forms of dispute resolution often call on the practitioner to balance values and objectives that are inherently contradictory. For example, mediators believe that party autonomy and self-determination are fundamental to the process, while some parties seek out mediators because they expect the mediator to apply a certain … Read More
Presenter:
Daniel L. Shapiro
Whether negotiating with a spouse or mediating a conflict between governmental leaders, negotiators cannot escape the influence of emotions. Yet negotiators rarely deal with emotions as well as they could — leading many negotiations to falter or fail.
This Dispute Resolution Forum workshop will focus on the role of emotions in negotiation. First, we … Read More
Kenneth R. Feinberg
Special Master
September 11th Victim
Compensation Fund
Mr. Feinberg will discuss how the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund was developed to respond to the needs of the victims of the terrorist attacks. He is an attorney and a leading expert in alternative dispute resolution. Currently serving as Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law … Read More
Presenters:
Sallyann Roth and Robert R. Stains
“ADR practitioners face many dilemmas when parties to a conflict have markedly different social, economic, and educational backgrounds with unequal access to resources. Issues of language, articulation, meeting structure, mediator role and status, mutual assumptions, physical environment, and fairness in the session must be considered. We will explore the effects … Read More
The Dispute Resolution Forum for March will feature Dr. Brian Polkinghorn, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution and Executive Director of the Center for Conflict Resolution at Salisbury State University in Salisbury, MD. He will present the findings from over 2000 surveys completed by mediators that form part of a nationwide evaluation of the US Equal … Read More
Dennis Ross, Director for Policy Planning in the State Department under President George H. W. Bush and Special Middle East Coordinator under President Clinton, will discuss “Prospects for Peace in the Middle East” on Monday, March 11, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., in Spangler Hall at the Harvard Business School (Harvard Business School Map). … Read More
Moderated by Robert Mnookin
Mindfulness in the Law & ADR
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Join Leonard Riskin, Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Columbia, the Program on Negotiation’s Robert Mnookin, and a panel of distinguished professors and professionals in a discussion of the role of mindfulness in the law and alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
Inspired by Professor Riskin’s … Read More
There will be an introduction by the director, Charles Belmont, and Alain Pekar Lempereur, Professor at ESSEC and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. After the film screening, join a discussion led by Former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard and Film Director Charles Belmont.
In 1988, violence erupted in New Caledonia, an island in the … Read More
At the February meeting of the Dispute Resolution Forum (DRF), Jamie Suarez Potts will draw parallels between her work in South Africa, working with leaders in townships following the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, and her efforts in the US, where she is associated with the New England Region Criminal Justice Program of the … Read More
Keith Murnighan will be the February speaker at the Seminar on Psychological Processes in Negotiation. He is the Harold J. Hines Jr. Distinguished Professor of Risk Management at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. The title of his presentation is Live and Internet Auction Bidding: Experimental and Field Studies, based on a paper … Read More
Great Negotiator Award
Negotiation and Nonviolent Action
PON Film Series
The Kelman Seminar
