A professional trained to help parties negotiate productively. The role of a facilitator may vary, but in most cases they are responsible for keeping the conversation on track and communication open. (Lawrence E. Susskind and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, Breaking RobertÕs Rules [Oxford University Press, USA, 2006], 27)
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David G. Seibel is Co-Founder and President of the conflict management firms Insight Partners and the non-profit Insight Collaborative. He helps individuals and organizations articulate their key interests and find creative options to meet them. He is a trainer, consultant, mediator, and professor in the fields of effective negotiation, communication, mediation and dispute resolution.
Florrie Darwin is a Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School, where she teaches in the negotiation workshop. At HLS she has co-created and taught a course on “Negotiating Leadership.” She is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.
The PON Clearinghouse offers hundreds of role simulations, from two-party, single-issue negotiations to complex multi-party exercises. Rockwell Quarry is a five-party, multi-issue negotiation among elected officials, property owners, and a gravel company over a permit for a gravel quarry in a recreationally valuable canyon.
The Rockwell Quarry Complex Environmental Negotiation is a five-party, multi-issue simulation that
There is often a profound gap – of which we are typically unaware – between what we “know” or “believe” about effective negotiation practice and what we actually do as practitioners under pressure. Bruce Patton, the founder of Vantage Partners and co-founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project, advocates helping students master key “micro-skills” to enable
Eileen F. Babbitt is Professor of International Conflict Management Practice and Director of the International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is also a Faculty Associate of the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Robert C. Bordone is the Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Director of the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program. He teaches several courses at Harvard Law School including the school’s flagship Negotiation Workshop and in Harvard Law School’s Program of Instruction for Lawyers. As a professional facilitator and conflict resolution consultant, he works with individual and corporate clients across a spectrum of industries.
“The Role of Track I actors in Reconciliation: The UN in Iraq”
with
Eileen Babbitt
Date: December 8, 2009
Time: 4-6 PM
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, Second Floor, N-262 (Bowie Vernon Room), Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).
Speaker Bio
Eileen F. Babbitt is Professor of International Conflict Management Practice and Director of the International Negotiation
A professional trained to help parties negotiate productively. The role of a facilitator may vary, but in most cases they are responsible for keeping the conversation on track and communication open. (Lawrence E. Susskind and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, Breaking Robert’s Rules [Oxford University Press, USA, 2006], 27)
Facilitation works best when a facilitator is matched properly to the group and to the situation. Look out for these signs of trouble that may suggest that you need a different facilitator, or that facilitation may not be working for your group:
Poor chemistry. Your facilitator’s personal style may be too forceful, or not forceful enough,
Consider the dilemma faced by Joe, the vice president of semiconductor technology at one of the largest computer companies in the world. He is also the chair of an alliance made up of representatives from six other large companies. The group works together to develop and acquire certain production technologies. The group also second-guesses every
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