The Dark Side: Reporting on the War on Terror
with Roger Cohen, New York Times Foreign Correspondent, and
Carlotta Gall, New York Times Reporter
Date: December 5, 2011
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM
Where: CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S-030 (Concourse Level)
disputes
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Professor Susskind talks negotiation obstacles
Q&A with Professor Susskind, MIT’s Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, and Vice Chair of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
Q: You’ve taught for years about overcoming organizational obstacles. What are the most common roadblocks to effective negotiations?
Typically, obstacles occur at all four stages of the negotiation process. First is the preparation
Managing conflict in-house
Workplace disputes are inevitable. Employees air grievances, consumers file lawsuits, and strategic partners threaten to fire you and hire your competitor. All too often, such conflicts end up in the courts. In addition to consuming incredible amounts of time and energy, lawsuits often ruin long-standing relationships with suppliers, customers, and shareholders.
Increasingly, organizations are applying the
Mediation and conflict resolution
It’s often the case that when two people or organizations try to resolve a dispute by determining who is right, they get stuck. That’s why so many disputes end up in court.
There is a better way to resolve your dispute: by hiring an expert mediator who focuses not on rights but on interests—the needs, desires,
December 2011
Manage your anxiety and overconfidence
Negotiate effectively online
Avoid disputes through careful contracting
Deal with a vocal opposition
Beyond diplomacy: Embedding peace and conflict transformation processes in Nepal and Lebanon
“Beyond diplomacy: Embedding peace and conflict transformation processes in Nepal and Lebanon”
with
Jeff Seul
Chairman, Peace Appeal Foundation
and
Martin Wahlisch
International Lawyer and Researcher, Common Space Initiative (Beirut)
Date: November 8, 2011
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM
Where: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
1737 Cambridge Street, Room K-354, Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).
Speaker Bios
Jeff Seul, Chairman of the Peace Appeal Foundation, is a partner in
The late-night-TV disputes
Adapted from “Comedy of Errors: The Late-Night-TV Wars,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter, April 2010.
In 2004, NBC asked Jay Leno, the longtime host of The Tonight Show, to yield the show in five years to Conan O’Brien, his younger rival and host of NBC’s Late Night.
As the date of O’Brien’s promotion approached, Leno’s Tonight
Bargaining with the Devil:
Strategies and Techniques for Negotiating with Tough Opponents
Bargaining with the Devil
A PON Webinar
with
Professor Robert Mnookin
Samuel Williston Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Chair, Program on Negotiation Executive Committee
Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:15 PM ET
Involving mediators in settlement talks
Adapted from “The Mediator as Team Adviser,” by Stephen B. Goldberg (professor, Northwestern University), first published in the Negotiation newsletter, May 2006.
When faced with a trial, a corporation sometimes engages one law firm to represent it in court and a second law firm to explore settlement possibilities. According to conventional wisdom, the second law firm
Shuttle diplomacy examined in July issue of Negotiation Journal
In the July 2011 issue of Negotiation Journal, mediator David Hoffman takes a thoughtful look at the role of caucusing in mediation in an article entitled “Mediation and the Art of Shuttle Diplomacy.” The practice of meeting separately with each disputant, while widespread, is not without controversy. Critics have argued that these private sessions give
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