Since 2005, the Program on Negotiation (PON) has been exploring the relationship between negotiation and strategic nonviolent action. Negotiation and nonviolent action are both tools for resolving conflict, and practitioners of both fields can learn much from each other. PON sees the two fields as more interdependent than ever and has hosted a series of events dedicated to highlighting the strengths and similarities of both approaches to conflict resolution.
Ela Gandhi and Bill Ury
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In December 2006, PON and the Global Negotiation Project (GNP) held a symposium featuring Ela Gandhi, Gandhi's granddaughter and a former member of the South African parliament. This event, Negotiation: The Hidden Dimension of the Nonviolent Struggles of our Era, illustrated how negotiation and nonviolent action have been used to deal with some of the most intractable conflicts--including political struggles in South Africa and India, and civil rights conflicts in the U.S.--and how these tools can effectively be used today.
Please click here to view the webcast of this event.
The Negotiation and Nonviolent Action Student Task Force is a group of graduate students from
the Boston-area that meet to discuss and further analyze the issues surrounding the intersection of negotiation and nonviolent action. This student group did research, writing and content-organizing for the Negotiation: The Hidden Dimension of the Nonviolent Struggles of our Era symposium.
Negotiation and Nonviolent Action Activities
April 3, 2007
PON Film Series: Lage Raho Munna Bhai
Adil Najam
Associate Professor, Fletcher School at Tufts University
April 2, 2007
A nonviolent action workshop was held by George Lakey, director of the Philadelphia-based organization Training for Change. This workshop demonstrated some of the characteristic training tools used in preparing people for campaigns using nonviolent struggle.
February 15, 2007
PON Film Series: Bringing Down a Dictator
Eileen Babbitt
Professor, Fletcher School at Tufts University
January 25, 2007
Reflections of the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.and the Nonviolent Action Movement
Dr. Bernard LaFayette
Director, Center for Nonviolence and
Peace Studies at the
University of Rhode Island
December 4, 2006
Negotiation: The Hidden Dimension of the Nonviolent Struggles of Our Era
PON Managing Director Susan Hackley and Ela Gandhi
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Ela Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi and former member of Parliament in South Africa
William Ury, Global Negotiation Project
James Sebenius, Harvard Business School
George Lakey, Training for Change
Adil Najam, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
Maria Stephan, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
September 26, 2006
PON Film Series: Gandhi
Susan Hackley
PON Managing Director
January 12, 2006
PON Film Series: February One
Robert Bordone
Clinical Professor, Harvard Law School
Christine Desan
Professor, Harvard Law School
November 16, 2005
PON Film Series: A Force More Powerful
Jack DuVall
Executive Producer
October 25, 2005
The Intersection of Negotiation and Nonviolent Action
Gene Sharp
Albert Einstein Institution
William Ury
Global Negotiation Project
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