Meeting Facilitation

The impartial management of meetings designed to enable participants to focus on substantive issues and goals. (Lawrence E. Susskind, Sarah McKearnan and Jennifer Thomas-Larmer, The Consensus Building Handbook [Sage Publications, 1999], 207)

The following items are tagged Meeting Facilitation.

When Facilitation Goes Wrong

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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,

facilitation

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The impartial management of meetings designed to enable participants to focus on substantive issues and goals. (Lawrence E. Susskind, Sarah McKearnan and Jennifer Thomas-Larmer, The Consensus Building Handbook [Sage Publications, 1999], 207)

China’s Camp David Moment

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Anne Wu is a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Jason Qian is a fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Project.

THE RULE of the game in pursuing a non-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula has been fundamentally changed by Pyongyang’s claimed nuclear test. The adopted

September 2006

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How to Defuse Threats at the Bargaining Table: Our DEAL approach can launch a more productive conversation focused on satisfying everyone’s interests
Bring Talks Back on Track with Facilitation: When tempers flare and anarchy threatens, an outside expert can increase the productivity of group negotiations
Facing a Protracted Dispute? Consider a “Virtual Strike”: Undistributed revenues offer you

The Limits of Track II Diplomacy: Early Lessons from the Geneva Initiative

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Presenter:
Brian S. Mandell

In his presentation, The Limits of Track II Diplomacy: Early Lessons from the Geneva Initiative, Brian Mandell will examine the effectiveness of Track II initiatives. In December 2003, a group of prominent Israelis and Palestinians signed the Geneva Accord, a peace initiative that was negotiated in secret for more than two years despite

The Limits of Track II Diplomacy: Early Lessons from the Geneva Initiative

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Presenter:
Brian S. Mandell

In his presentation, The Limits of Track II Diplomacy: Early Lessons from the Geneva Initiative, Brian Mandell will examine the effectiveness of Track II initiatives. In December 2003, a group of prominent Israelis and Palestinians signed the Geneva Accord, a peace initiative that was negotiated in secret for more than two years despite

Negotiation Analysis: The Science and Art of Collaborative Decision-Making

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This masterly book substantially extends Howard Raiffa’s earlier classic, The Art and Science of Negotiation. It does so by incorporating three additional supporting strands of inquiry:

Individual decision analysis
Judgmental decision making
Game theory

 

Each strand is introduced and used in analyzing negotiations.

Negotiation Analysis starts by

Dispute Resolution and Democracy Facilitation: Professional Third Party Neutrals and Consensus Building

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Presenter:
Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Center; Director, Georgetown-Hewlett Program on Conflict Resolution and Legal Problem Solving; and Chair, CPR-Georgetown Commission on Ethics and Standards in ADR will discuss her current work on applying conflict resolution theory and practice to problems of democracy and participation in political and policy issues. Many mediators

Clearinghouse Releases New Mediation Training Video

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The Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse announces the release of a new mediation training video, produced as a collaborative venture between the Program on Negotiation and the Center for Mediation in Law. The video, entitled Saving the Last Dance: Mediation Through Understanding, demonstrates the “Mediation through Understanding” mediation model that Gary J. Friedman, Jack Himmelstein, and

PON Affiliate Babbitt To Facilitate Afghan Conference

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Dr. Eileen F. Babbitt, assistant professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a PON faculty affiliate, will be one of four facilitators leading a Civil Society Conference for Peace and Reconstruction in Afghanistan from 29 November to 2 December in Bonn, Germany. The objective of the meeting is to