An impartial, mutually acceptable third party whose goal is to help conflicted parties resolve their dispute. Mediators lack the power to coerce or bargain, but they can use facilitative power to influence disputants. (Michael Watkins and Susan Rosegrant, Breakthrough International Negotiations [Jossey-Bass, 2001], 93)
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Michael A. Wheeler, Co-Director of the Dispute Resolution Program, Editor of Negotiation Journal, and member of the Program on Negotiation Steering Committee since 1984, has been appointed the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. He joined the School’s faculty in 1993.
Professor Wheeler currently serves as faculty chair of the
Presenters:
Sallyann Roth and Robert R. Stains
“ADR practitioners face many dilemmas when parties to a conflict have markedly different social, economic, and educational backgrounds with unequal access to resources. Issues of language, articulation, meeting structure, mediator role and status, mutual assumptions, physical environment, and fairness in the session must be considered. We will explore the effects
The Dispute Resolution Forum for March will feature Dr. Brian Polkinghorn, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution and Executive Director of the Center for Conflict Resolution at Salisbury State University in Salisbury, MD. He will present the findings from over 2000 surveys completed by mediators that form part of a nationwide evaluation of the US Equal
There will be an introduction by the director, Charles Belmont, and Alain Pekar Lempereur, Professor at ESSEC and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. After the film screening, join a discussion led by Former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard and Film Director Charles Belmont.
In 1988, violence erupted in New Caledonia, an island in the
At the February meeting of the Dispute Resolution Forum (DRF), Jamie Suarez Potts will draw parallels between her work in South Africa, working with leaders in townships following the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, and her efforts in the US, where she is associated with the New England Region Criminal Justice Program of the
Presenter:
Arnold M. Zack
The United States has the reputation for effective use of mediation and arbitration of disputes in unionized workplaces. Anyone who has ever been inconvenienced abroad by frequent strikes of transit or government workers must wonder why other countries don’t adopt a system like ours, free of wildcat strikes. Arnold Zack, whose background and
Ury’s New Book Offers New Perspective on Violence.
Is war on earth inevitable? Is violence a universal and invincible fact of human nature? As our nation grapples with the reality of terrorism and military retaliation, these questions take on new relevance and urgency. William L. Ury, world-renowned bestselling author and top-level negotiator, offers surprising answers–and a
For more than five years, the Public Conversations Project in collaboration with Susan Podziba, a public policy mediator and PON seminar instructor, has been facilitating on ongoing confidential dialogue among a group of pro-life and pro-choice leaders in Boston. On January 28, 2001, the Boston Sunday Globe published “Talking to the Enemy” a lengthy article
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
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