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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

Roger Fisher and Robert Mnookin Discuss ‘Negotiating in the Face of Terror’

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Press Release
(published November 8, 2001)

On Tuesday, November 13, two of the world’s best-known negotiation scholars, Harvard Law Professors Robert H. Mnookin and Roger Fisher, will discuss the possibilities and the limits of negotiation in the post-September 11 world. The program, Afghanistan: Negotiating in the

PON Fellows Show “The Third Side in Action”

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On October 9th at Harvard Law School, Dr.William Ury, Director of PON’s Global Negotiation Project, and five past PON Graduate Research Fellows presented a symposium on The Third Side, an idea proposed by Dr. Ury in his book of that name (Penguin, 2000). The Third Side is a systematic and self-organizing dispute resolution mechanism for

Sara Cobb to Direct ICAR

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The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School extends its best wishes to Dr. Sara Cobb, soon to become Executive Director of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Cobb has served as Executive Director of PON for two years, during which she has developed a

PON Names Five Graduate Fellows for 2001-2002

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Five advanced students have been named PON Graduate Fellows for the academic year 2001-2002. They will join the Program and participate in its activities while writing their doctoral dissertations during this period. Two of the new Fellows, Michèle Ferenz and Gregg Macey, are students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. Noam

Conexistence Panel to Explore Ethnic Tension

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On Thursday, April 5, a panel titled “Does Coexistence Mean I have to Like You? Practical Wisdom for Dealing with Ethnic Tensions” will be presented in Langdell Hall South at Harvard Law School from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. Panelists will include Darko Jordanov, a Macedonian, and Herbi Elmazi, an ethnic Albanian, who have developed a

Director of Curriculum Development Named

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Melissa Manwaring has been appointed the Director of Curriculum Development. She assumes her duties at a time of transition for the Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse. Its distribution function has been outsourced to a commercial firm specializing in the distribution of educational materials. Its role at PON is being shifted in a more pro-active direction, toward

George Mitchell Recieves First Great Negotiator Award

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On April 7, 2000, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School honored former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell with the first Great Negotiator Award. Mitchell was recognized for his role as a master coalition builder at home and abroad. Under his leadership the governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom and the political parties of