Northern Ireland

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Great Negotiators vs. Great Negotiations: The Program on Negotiation’s Great Negotiator Teaching Series

Posted by & filed under Daily, Great Negotiator Award, Negotiation Skills, Pedagogy at the Program on Negotiation (Pedagogy @ PON).

Teaching negotiation using case studies focused on the efforts of great negotiators can help achieve several pedagogical goals at the same time. Developed by Professor James Sebenius of Harvard Business School, the Program on Negotiation’s Great Negotiator case study series, available from the PON Clearinghouse, highlights the lessons learned by each recipient of PON’s Great

“Northern Ireland Peace Process: What Then, What Now, What Next?”

Posted by & filed under Conflict Resolution, Crisis Negotiations, Daily, Events, International Negotiation.

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and Program on Negotiation
Present
The Right Honorable Shaun Woodward, MP
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
on
“Northern Ireland Peace Process: What Then, What Now, What Next?”

Date: Wednesday, December 2nd
Place: Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor Taubman Building
Harvard Kennedy School Campus
Time:

The Role of Track I actors in Reconciliation: The UN in Iraq

Posted by & filed under Conflict Resolution, Daily, Events, International Negotiation, The Kelman Seminar.

“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

Negotiating Without Conditions

Posted by & filed under Conflict Management, Daily.

Adapted from “Without Conditions:  The Case for Negotiating With the Enemy” by Deepak Malhotra. is Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and a co-author of Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond.

For the full article, visit Foreign Affairs.

Diplomacy appears ready to make a comeback. The

Boston Globe highlights mediation trainings for Iraqis

Posted by & filed under Daily, International Negotiation, News.

“The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is a renowned source of expertise in the field,” reported the Boston Globe today in its story, “Iraq latest crucible for Harvard mediation.” Reporting on the work done by conflict resolution professionals at Conflict Management Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the report notes that “The blood not spilled

Advanced Negotiation: Setup, Deal Design, and Tactics

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Advanced Negotiation: Setup, Deal Design, and Tactics
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL

FALL (not offered 2012)

Instructor:
James Sebenius
617-495-9334

This course is designed for students who expect to analyze and participate in challenging business, financial, and international negotiations, sometimes with public and/or public-private aspects. It builds on the framework developed in the required first-year course, but develops far more advanced negotiation concepts

Negotiating the Good Friday Agreement

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Retired US Senator George Mitchell played a critical role in negotiating the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. In an interview with Susan Hackley, Managing Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, in the February 2004 Negotiation newsletter, he describes how he was able to facilitate an agreement between these long warring

Article: Negotiation and Nonviolent Action: Interacting in the World of Conflict

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Negotiation and Nonviolent Action: Interacting in the World of Conflict
By Amy C. Finnegan and Susan G. Hackley

Amy C. Finnegan is a Ph.D. student in sociology at Boston College. Her e-mail address is amyfinnegan@alum.wustl.edu.

Susan G. Hackley is the managing director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Her e-mail address is shackley@law.harvard.edu.

Abstract

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Naive Realism and Other Barriers to Dispute Resolution

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Join us for a talk by Lee Ross on “naïve realism” and other factors that exacerbate conflict and create barriers to efficient negotiation and dispute resolution. He will present laboratory and field research results, as well as some lessons that he and his colleagues at the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation have learned over

The Way Out of Another Grocery Strike

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With fears of another devastating grocery strike on the rise in Los Angeles, questions naturally arise. Why aren’t both sides more willing to negotiate and find a satisfactory solution? What could possibly bring them to agreement?

People everywhere approach conflicts with an adversarial mind-set, intending to win and make the other side lose. And people everywhere