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McCain and Obama disagree on whether the president should meet with dictators and tyrants. But scholars suggest the answer is clear.
June 22, 2008
By Mark Oppenheimer
This year’s presidential election has again brought up the debate on whether the president should meet with dictators or tyrants. There seems to be two clear sides, each representing a stark
The process of defining what a problem is about. Just as a frame can be placed around a photograph, including some portions of the picture, but cropping other portions out, people can define some aspects of a problem as important, while they ignore (or are unaware of) other issues that do not concern them.
A growing number of U.S. military commanders have come to recognize that stabilizing the insurgent and sectarian violence in Iraq necessitates dealing with population stability and civil support. As the army’s new operations manual itself states, “Winning battles and engagements is important, but alone is not sufficient. Shaping the civil situation is just as important
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.
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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.
Some in the West have recently begun referring to the 2008 Beijing Olympics as the “Genocide Olympics” because of China’s continued business ties with
June 28-30, 2006
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
www.eppconference.org
The Environment and Public Policy Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) announces that registration is open for its one-of-a-kind, provocative conference to be held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in historic Cambridge, Massachusetts June 28 – 30, 2006. Chaired by Professor Lawrence Susskind, Director of the MIT-Harvard
Webcasts
Workshop I – Mapping Your Own Conflict Resolution Career Path
Workshop II – Getting Your Foot in the Backdoor: Strategies for Building a Career in Conflict Resolution
Workshop III – Strategies for Success as a Conflict Resolution Professional
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Workshop I
Mapping Your Own Conflict
Resolution Career Path
March 8, 2004
What is the range of backgrounds that can lead to a
The High Cost of Low Trust: Counteracting misperception and mistrust at the beginning of a negotiation can help negotiators avoid vicious cycles and sustain virtuous ones
Mapping Backward: Negotiating in the Right Sequence: In a complex negotiation, it’s important to have a framework for understanding how and when to talk to each partner
Divided You’ll Fall: Managing
Panelists
Richard Barnes – Executive Director, William J. Usery Center for the Workplace, Georgia State University
Peter J. Hurtgen – Director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Chuck O’Connor – Vice President General Counsel, Maersk Inc.
Joel Schaffer – Commissioner, FMCS
Richard Trumka – Secretary/Treasurer, AFL-CIO
Moderator
Kathleen McGinn – Harvard Business School
Some labor disputes are so critical to the daily life of
Workshop I – Mapping Your Own Conflict Resolution Career Path
Workshop II – Getting Your Foot in the Backdoor: Strategies for Building a Career in Conflict Resolution
Workshop III – Strategies for Success as a Conflict Resolution Professional
RealPlayer Recommended (download here)
Workshop I
Mapping Your Own Conflict
Resolution Career Path
March 8, 2004
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What is the range of backgrounds that
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