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The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, in partnership with The Center for Public Leadership and the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School
invites the public to an address by
Tawakkol Karman
Nobel Peace Prize Co-recipient, 2011
Yemeni Political Activist and Journalist
When: Thursday, June 7, 2012
Time: 6 p.m.
Where: Institute of Politics Forum, Harvard Kennedy School
Free and open
The Obama administration’s powers of diplomacy were put to the test in recent weeks when Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng made a dramatic escape from house arrest to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on the eve of the United States’ and China’s annual negotiations on strategic and economic issues.
Negotiations between U.S. and Chinese officials involving Chen’s fate were conducted under top secrecy, at the Chinese government’s insistence. “Face is more important in Asian society than any contract,” one senior American official told the Times, emphasizing China’s need to keep the sensitive negotiations under wraps.
I want to make four simple points regarding corporate social responsibility and mineral extraction in Colombia. I presented these ideas several weeks ago at a Harvard Law School seminar sponsored by the Colombian government. We had senior officials present along with a great many Colombian graduate students studying at Boston-area schools. I think these prescriptions apply globally, but they are especially relevant in Latin America.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) provides a new point of entry for those concerned about the social and environmental impacts of mineral extraction.
In a classic New Yorker cartoon, a dinner guest shows up for the party, hands the host a $20 bill, and announce that this was the amount he had planned to spend on a bottle of win before he ran out of time. Negotiation buffs might admire the guest for making an efficient tradeoff that saved him the effort of shopping and gave the host $20 to spend as he wished. But most people would view the guest’s behavior as highly inappropriate. Why?
In early February, following months of difficult negotiations, the attorneys general of 49 states (all but Oklahoma) and the Obama administration reached a settlement agreement with five of the nation’s largest banks aimed at improving the stability of the U.S. housing market and punishing the banks for foreclosure abuses, the New York Times reports.
The deal was rooted in an investigation into mortgage servicing following revelations that banks were evicting borrowers based on false or incomplete documentation. The settlements gives financial relief to nearly 2 million current and former American homeowners hurt by the 2008 housing crisis through reductions in mortgage debt, home refinancing, and cash payments. Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and Ally Financial must pay about $5 billion in fines and spend at least $20 billion in borrowers assistance.
“Trusting Truth: The Path to Avoiding Gridlock in Public Dialogue” with Ron Suskind , A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government
Date: Monday, April 23, 2012Time: 4:00-6:00 PM
Where: CGIS South S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu)
Speaker Bio: Ron Suskind is the A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence. One of the
Russia’s Leadership Challenges
in the 21st Century
with
Kevin Ryan
Executive Director for Research
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Kennedy School of Government
and
Simon Saradzhyan
Fellow
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Kennedy School of Government
Date: Monday, March 26, 2012
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM
Where: CGIS South S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu)
Speaker Bios
Brigadier General Kevin Ryan (U.S. Army retired) is Executive Director
“Systems Thinking and Peacebuilding: A New Frontier?”
with
Robert Ricigliano
Director of the Institute of World Affairs,
Center for International Education
at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
When: Thursday, April 5, 2012
Time: 12 – 1:15 p.m.
Where: Wasserstein Hall, Room 2009, Harvard Law School Campus
Please bring your lunch. Drinks and desserts provided.
Policymakers, practitioners, and academics have seized on
“The Secret Talks That Led to the Fall of Apartheid”
with
Michael Young
Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Time: 7:30 – 9 PM
Where: Langdell North, Harvard Law School
Event is free and open to the public; Refreshments will be served
Co-sponsored by: Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Mediation Program, Harvard Negotiation Law Review, and Harvard
Pakistan and the US:
Ships Passing in the Night
with
Pir Zubair Shah
Reporter for The New York Times and Nieman Fellow
and
David Greenway
Columnist for The Boston Globe and Shorenstein Fellow
Date: Monday, February 27, 2012
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM
Where: CGIS South S-354, 1730 Cambridge Street
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu)
Speaker Bios
H.D.S. (David) Greenway is a contributing columnist for The Boston Globe, The International Herald
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