Dr Paula Gutlove is Professor of Negotiation and Conflict Management Practice at the Simmons College School of Management, and Deputy Director of the Institute for Resource and Security Studies (IRSS). At IRSS she founded and directs the international project, Health Bridges for Peace. This project links health care with the prevention and resolution of inter-communal
conciliation
Efforts by a third party to improve the relationship between two or more disputants. It may be done as a part of mediation, or independently. Generally, the third party will work with the disputants to correct misunderstandings, reduce fear and distrust, and generally improve communication between the parties in conflict. Sometimes this alone will result in dispute settlement; at other times, it paves the way for a later mediation process. (from http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/glossary.htm)
The following items are tagged conciliation.
Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Muslim Brotherhood – Obstacles to Peace in the Middle East or Opportunities?
“Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Muslim Brotherhood-
Obstacles to Peace in the Middle East or Opportunities?”
with
Robert Pastor
Date: February 15, 2011
Time: 12:00PM to 1:30PM
Where: Pound Hall, Room 202, Harvard Law School Campus
The foreign policy of the United States and its allies have been based on the premise that all three organizations are immutable threats to
“Can Ethnic Divisions be Healed for the Good of all Kenyans?”
“Can Ethnic Divisions be Healed for the
Good of all Kenyans?”
with
Robert Rotberg
and
Gwen Thompkins
Date: October 19, 2010
Time: 4-6 PM
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, Room N-262, Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).
Speaker Bios
Robert Rotberg is Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Belfer Center for Science and
“International Finance and How It Affects the Negotiation of Global Conflicts”
“International Finance and How It Affects the Negotiation of Global Conflicts”
with
Loch Adamson
and
Richard Parker
Date: September 21, 2010
Time: 4-6 PM
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, Room N-262, Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).
Speaker Bios
Loch Adamson is the London bureau chief of Institutional Investor, a New York-based financial
David Hoffman
David Hoffman teaches the Mediation course at Harvard Law School, and has served as a guest lecturer in a variety of PON programs. He is a mediator, arbitrator, and attorney at Boston Law Collaborative, LLC, which he founded in 2003. BLC was the recipient in 2009 of the American Bar Association’s annual Lawyer as
Announcing the 2010 PON Summer Fellows
About the PON Summer Fellowship Program:
PON offers fellowship grants to students at Harvard University, MIT, Tufts University and other Boston-area schools who are doing internships or undertaking summer research projects in negotiation and dispute resolution in partnership with public, non-profit or academic organizations. The Summer Fellowship Program’s emphasis is on advancing the links between
“The Future of Cuba, Cuban-Americans, and the U.S. Government: Reconciliation or War Crime Tribunals and Property Restitution?”
“The Future of Cuba, Cuban-Americans,
and the U.S. Government:
Reconciliation or War Crime Tribunals and Property Restitution?”
with
Jorge I. Dominguez
and
Anita Snow
Date: May 4, 2010
Time: 4-6 PM
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, Room N-354*, Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).
*Please note this event is not in the usual room.
Speaker Bios
Jorge I. Domínguez is
Afghanistan: How to end the violent conflict and promote reconciliation
“Afghanistan: How to end violent conflict and promote reconciliation.”
with
Ambassador Peter Galbraith
Date: April 13, 2010
Time: 4-6 PM
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, Room N-262, Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).
Speaker Bios
Peter W. Galbraith has served in senior positions in the US Government and the United Nations. Most recently, he was Deputy
Eileen Babbitt
Eileen F. Babbitt is Professor of International Conflict Management Practice and Director of the International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is also a Faculty Associate of the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Nadim Rouhana
From his experience growing up as a Palestinian in Israel to his extensive research and practice in the field, Nadim Rouhana has examined protracted social conflict from various angles. Rouhana’s research highlights the centrality of identity, history, and justice in such conflicts and underscores the need to develop theory to understand these conflicts and tools with which to approach them.
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