program on negotiation at harvard law school

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PON’s New Website

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Welcome to the new website for the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School! As we come fully online, we welcome your comments and patience as we finish launching the new site. We hope to be a resource for you by providing comprehensive information on all aspects of negotiation and conflict management through our research, conferences, courses, publications, and special events. We hope you find this website useful and come back often!

Conflict Management in South Asia: A Discussion of Mercy Corps CMG’s Programs in the Region

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Dr. Rebecca Wolfe is a Senior Program Officer with Mercy Corps Conflict Management Group. She is responsible for developing and implementing conflict management programs, including writing proposals, designing assessments, conducting evaluations and designing and delivering trainings. Since joining Mercy Corps, she has spent the majority of her time working in Asia, including Sri Lanka, Nepal,

PON Graduate Student Grants Application Procedure

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Application Procedure
Each application must contain:

a one- to two-page description of the proposed project;
a budget, including all other sources of support for the project;
a curriculum vitae (max 2 page);
a letter of reference from a faculty member familiar with the student’s work.

Grant applications will be evaluated on the basis of:

academic merit;
originality;
potential for producing material for an academic

Public Dispute Resolution

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The quality of our democracy presumably rests on the deliberations we are able to promote and sustain among individuals and groups with contending interests and views. The responsiveness of our elected and appointed officials also presumably hinges on our ability to involve a wide range of stakeholders in policy-making and a range of

Is Peace Possible?

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This panel brings together four experienced practitioners in the art of diplomacy, cooperation among governments and international organizations, exchanges, development assistance, and other tactics that make up strategies for peace that acknowledge the limits of military power. The speakers have hands-on experience with these options—and their successful outcomes—within the intricacies of many recent international conflicts.

Multiparty Negotiation: Four Volume Set

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Edited by Professors Lawrence E. Susskind and Larry Crump, this collection makes a strong case for how and why multiparty negotiation should be treated as a distinct field of study. The editors argue that multiparty negotiations exhibit at least three features that distinguish them from two-party negotiations: coalitional behavior, demanding process management requirements, and highly

The 2008 Great Negotiators

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On Tuesday, September 23, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude will be honored with the 2008 Great Negotiator Award by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. The artists will participate in a faculty-led discussion at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 100 Northern Avenue on Boston’s waterfront from 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. Christo and Jeanne-Claude

CBI and PON Release Workable Peace Curriculum

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The Consensus Building Institute (CBI) and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON) have released the Workable Peace Curriculum Series.

The Workable Peace curriculum — a set of seven comprehensive curriculum guides for secondary schools and youth programs — is a product of The Workable Peace Project, directed by Stacie Smith and David Fairman

US News Ranks Harvard #1

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US News & World Report has ranked Dispute Resolution Programs at law schools around the country and rated the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School as #1.

PON is an interuniversity consortium involving faculty, graduate students, and administrative staff from a range of disciplines and professional schools at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

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