Conflict Management

The long-term management of intractable conflicts and the people involved in them so that they do not escalate out of control and become violent. (from http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/glossary.htm)

The following items are tagged Conflict Management.

Negotiating Chechnya’s Future

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Conflict in Chechnya Panel
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A three-part series exploring human rights and conflict resolution in Chechnya April 16, 17 & 30 – free and open to the public.

Please join the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program for three events focusing on Chechnya and its continued

Conflict With Iraq: What Role For Negotiation?

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Conflict with Iraq
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Panelists:
Roger Fisher
Samuel Williston Professor of Law Emeritus
Harvard Law School

Robert Mnookin
Samuel Williston Professor of Law
Harvard Law School

Michael Watkins
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School

Moderator:
Brian Mandell
Lecturer in Public Policy
Kennedy School of Government

On November 20th, 2002, as President Bush spoke at a NATO meeting in Prague about the disarmament

Shapiro Facilitates Training for Serbian Governmental Officials

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Dr. Daniel L. Shapiro, an Associate at the Harvard Negotiation Project and a Senior Lecturer at the Sloan School of Management, M.I.T., was recently invited by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) to facilitate negotiation training in Montenegro for Serbian governmental officials. Among those represented were members of the Education, Judicial, Environment, and Labor Committees of

Gala Celebration of Roger Fisher’s 80th Birthday

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Former students, long-time colleagues, family members and friends of Roger Fisher gathered at Harvard University’s Loeb House for a recent gala dinner to celebrate Fisher’s 80th birthday. Fisher, who was born May 28, 1922, is (among many other accomplishments) the Williston Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School, co-author of the best-selling book Getting

Let’s (Not) Make a Deal: How to Build Resentment and Inspire Revenge

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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

The Shadow Negotiation Honored: Kolb, Williams Receive IACM Award

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The Shadow Negotiation: How Women Can Master the Hidden Agendas that Determine Bargaining Success, by Deborah Kolb and Judith Williams, was given the Best Book Award by the International Association of Conflict Management (IACM). IACM is an international association of scholars and practitioners who teach and do research on negotiation and conflict management. The award

Conexistence Panel to Explore Ethnic Tension

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On Thursday, April 5, a panel titled “Does Coexistence Mean I have to Like You? Practical Wisdom for Dealing with Ethnic Tensions” will be presented in Langdell Hall South at Harvard Law School from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. Panelists will include Darko Jordanov, a Macedonian, and Herbi Elmazi, an ethnic Albanian, who have developed a

Director of Curriculum Development Named

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Melissa Manwaring has been appointed the Director of Curriculum Development. She assumes her duties at a time of transition for the Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse. Its distribution function has been outsourced to a commercial firm specializing in the distribution of educational materials. Its role at PON is being shifted in a more pro-active direction, toward