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Consensus Building Institute
The Consensus Building Institute (CBI) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1993 by leading practitioners and theory builders in the fields of negotiation and dispute resolution. Our experts bring decades of experience brokering agreements and building collaboration in complex, high-stakes environments.
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Rethinking the United States’ Behavior in the World: The Role of Global Warming
Cristine Russell, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government
Lawrence Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology and Founder and Senior Consultant, Consensus Building Institute
The discussions in the Negotiation, Conflict and the News Media series focus on exploring the relationship among government, news
Why Don’t Green Treaties Work?
In a Guardian Science Extra podcast interview, Professor Lawrence Susskind talks about how the process of treaty-making and treaty enforcement could be modified to make environmental agreements more effective. He was interviewed after he spoke at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) annual meeting in Boston on February 16.
Lawrence Susskind is the
Synthesizing Science and Politics
How can we reconcile science and policy? Professor Lawrence Susskind presented an option at the 2008 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting. He argued that stakeholders (including environmentalists and businesses), need to be brought into the very design of a scientific study.
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Strengthening the Global Environmental Treaty-Making System
Lawrence Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT, author of Environmental Diplomacy (Oxford University Press) and co-author of Transboundary Environmental Negotiation (Jossey-Bass Publishers), and founder of the Consensus Building Institute. Professor Susskind is also the vice-chair of education for the Program on Negotiation’s Executive Committee.
The Climate Change Treaty and the Kyoto Protocol
PON 4th Annual Internship Fair
Are you interested in gaining valuable work experience in the field of negotiation and dispute resolution? Come to the PON Internship Fair to meet representatives of organizations that are recruiting interns and research assistants.
Recruiters will briefly introduce their organizations and the available internships at 5:00 P.M. sharp, following which students will be able to circulate
Negotiation Pedagogy at PON (NP@PON)
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Negotiation Pedagogy at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (NP@PON) is pleased to announce a one-day Negotiation Pedagogy Workshop on Saturday, December 8, 2007. The workshop will be held on the Harvard Law School campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and will feature sessions on new and lesser-known negotiation teaching
December 2007 Negotiation Pedagogy Workshop
NP@PON held a one-day Negotiation Pedagogy Workshop on Saturday, December 8, 2007. The workshop took place on the Harvard Law School campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and featured sessions on new and lesser-known negotiation teaching tools as well as on broader curriculum design and educational principles. The workshop was open to the public and geared toward those who teach negotiation and dispute resolution at the graduate and undergraduate level. We expect to offer a follow up workshop in 2009.
Student Interest Group Fireside Chat with Prof. Lawrence Susskind
Lawrence Susskind, Director of MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program and Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT.
Professor Lawrence Susskind, a co-founder of PON, is currently Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, Director of the Environmental Policy and Planning Group at MIT, and Director of the Consensus Building Institute, a not-for-profit that provides environmental
Breaking Robert’s Rules: A Consensus-Building Approach to Organizational Governance
Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Every day groups engage in debate and reach decisions using Robert’s Rules of Order. Although written with good intent, Robert’s rituals of parliamentary procedure and majority rule often produces a victorious majority and a very dissatisfied minority that expects to raise its concerns again in the next meeting, in the
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