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Culture and Conflict

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Presenter:
Jeswald W. Salacuse

Cultural differences are at the root of many disputes, both international and domestic. The conflicts in the Middle East, the Congo, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, and Sri Lanka, to name but a few, all have important cultural dimensions. Within the United States, globalization and a growing multi-ethnic population have increasingly caused culture to become

Clearinghouse Releases New Mediation Training Video

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The Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse announces the release of a new mediation training video, produced as a collaborative venture between the Program on Negotiation and the Center for Mediation in Law. The video, entitled Saving the Last Dance: Mediation Through Understanding, demonstrates the “Mediation through Understanding” mediation model that Gary J. Friedman, Jack Himmelstein, and

New from PON: Transboundary Environmental Negotiation

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A new book by Lawrence Susskind, William Moomaw, and Kevin Gallagher, eds.
More than 150 international environmental treaties have been adopted since the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment first drew global attention to the dangers of transboundary pollution and rapid resource depletion. The elements of a makeshift international treaty-making system have been pieced together,

Herbert C. Kellman Discusses “Peacemaking in the Middle East — A Personal Journey”

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Mindfulness in the Law & ADR
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Those attending should read, in advance, Professor Kelman’s Experiences from 30 Years of Action Research on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, a 23-page essay. Click here to download.

For more than 30 years, Harvard University scholar Herbert C. Kelman has been working with Israelis and Palestinians to build peace in

Coalition to Fight Terrorism Theme of PON Luncheon Talk

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Coalition to Fight Terrorism
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Beyond Afghanistan: The Challenges of Building — and Sustaining — a Coalition to Fight Terrorism will be the subject of a “brown bag” lunch sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School on Wednesday, January 30.

The guest speaker will be Michael D. Watkins,

Breakthrough International Negotiation

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First Title Published in New Book Series

Playing for high stakes — in politics, business or everyday life — demands “breakthrough” negotiation, according to Michael Watkins, professor at the Harvard Business School, and Susan Rosegrant of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Their new book, Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed The World’s

PON Affiliate Babbitt To Facilitate Afghan Conference

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Dr. Eileen F. Babbitt, assistant professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a PON faculty affiliate, will be one of four facilitators leading a Civil Society Conference for Peace and Reconstruction in Afghanistan from 29 November to 2 December in Bonn, Germany. The objective of the meeting is to

Human Rights Center Founded at Fletcher

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A new Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution has been established at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, one of PON’s consortium universities. The Center (CHRCR) is directed by Fletcher Professors Eileen F. Babbitt, a PON Associate and Hurst Hannum, a member of PON’s Faculty Seminar. Executive Director of the Center