An agreement among all participating stakeholders. (Lawrence E. Susskind, Sarah McKearnan and Jennifer Thomas-Larmer, The Consensus Building Handbook [Sage Publications, 1999], 327)
The following items are tagged consensus.
Lawrence E. Susskind has been a Professor at MIT for more than 35 years. He teaches negotiation as well as a number of other advanced subjects and runs a substantial research program as Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program. He has supervised more than 60 doctoral students who now work around the world in academia, government and the private sector.
Michael Wheeler holds the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School where he teaches both Complex Negotiation and The Moral Leader, as well as a variety of executive courses. In recent years he served as faculty chair of the first year MBA program and headed the required Negotiation course.
Consensus Building Institute
238 Main Street, Suite 400
Cambridge, MA 02142
617-492-1414; Fax: 617-492-1919
CBI@cbuilding.org
www.cbuilding.org
Managing Directors: David Fairman and Patrick Field
Founder and Senior Advisor: Lawrence Susskind
Contact: Ed Minor
617-844-1113
eminor@cbuilding.org
The Consensus Building Institute (CBI) is a not-for-profit organization that provides dispute resolution services and undertakes dispute systems analysis and design activities for public agencies in the United States and overseas. CBI’s
Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution
University of Massachusetts, Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
McCormack Bldg. 1st Floor, Room 627
Boston, MA 02125
617-287-4040; fax: 617-287-4049
www.umb.edu/modr
Executive Director: Susan M. Jeghelian
susan.jeghelian@umb.edu
Deputy Director: Loraine M. Della Porta
loraine.dellaporta@umb.edu
The Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution & Public Collaboration (MODR), formerly a state agency, is now a free-standing institute of the University of Massachusetts Boston. MODR’s mission is
Mercy Corps
The Roger Fisher House
9 Waterhouse St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 354-5444
www.mercycorps.org
Contact: Jenny Vaughan, Program Officer
jvaughan@cr.mercycorps.org
Mercy Corps is a relief and development organization that works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to unleash the potential of people who can win against nearly impossible odds. Our mission is to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people
The M.I.T.-Harvard Public Disputes Program
512 Pound Hall
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA 02138
Managing Directors: David Fairman and Patrick Field
Founder and Senior Advisor: Lawrence Susskind
Contact: Ed Minor
617-844-1113
eminor@cbuilding.org
The Public Disputes Program (PDP) seeks to bring together scholars and professionals to improve the practice of negotiation, mediation, and conflict management in the public sector. The Program undertakes basic and applied
The PON Brown Bag Lunch Series Presents:
Peacebuilders in Action –
Search for Common Ground
photo courtesy of www.sfcg.org
with
Susan Collin Marks
Senior Vice President, Search for Common Ground
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
12:00-1:00 PM
Hauser Hall, Room102, Harvard Law School Campus
Bring your lunch. Drinks and dessert will be served.
Speaker Bio
Susan Collin Marks is senior vice president of
Adapted from “Make the Most of Mediation,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.
As compared with other forms of dispute resolution, mediation can have an informal, improvisational feel. Mediation can include some or all of the following six steps, writes Kimberlee K. Kovach in The Handbook of Dispute Resolution (Jossey-Bass, 2005):
1. Planning. Before mediation begins,
Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in the Public Sector
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (DUSP 11.225)
NOT OFFERED FALL 2012
Instructor:
Lawrence Susskind
Rm. 9-332
617-253-2026
Investigates social conflict and distributional disputes in the public sector. While theoretical aspects of conflict are considered, the focus is on the practice of consensus-building and dispute resolution in public policy settings. Comparisons between unassisted and assisted
Advanced Workshop in Multi-Party Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (MLD 230)
KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT
WINTER 2013
Instructor:
Brian Mandell
617-495-9123
This intensive skill-building workshop on multiparty negotiation and conflict resolution (NCR) aims to help participants manage complex multi-stakeholder negotiations; mediate public disputes; design consensus-building procedures; examine cross-cultural differences and ethical dilemmas; and sustain cooperative relationships. The emphasis is on the NCR
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