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
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The 2008 Great Negotiators
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
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
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
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
Breakthrough International Negotiation
Playing for high stakes — in politics, business or everyday life — demands “breakthrough” negotiation, according to Michael Watkins, professor at the Harvard Business School, and Susan Rosegrant of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Their new book, Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed The World’s Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts (San Francisco:
The New Conflict Management: Effective Conflict Resolution Strategies to Avoid Litigation
This report reveals how wise negotiators extract unexpected value using an indirect approach to conflict management. An aggressive management style can set you up for repeated failure. Direct conflict management approaches can be overly combative and counter-productive. Experienced negotiators know that compromise seldom succeeds. Win/lose is really lose/lose. The best negotiation strategy results in a deal that works for all parties.
How to Improve Mediation Quality and Increase Lawyers’ Use of Interest-Based Negotiation
John Lande, Director of the LLM Program in Dispute Resolution and Associate Professor of Law, University of Missouri School of Law
Professor Lande will present results from two recent studies relevant to mediators and lawyers. As a member of the Task Force on Improving Mediation Quality of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, he designed and
Rethinking the United States’ Behavior in the World: The Role of Foreign Policy
Joseph Nye, University Distinguished Service Professor, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations and former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
Robert Mnookin, the Samuel Williston Professor of Law and Chair of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
The discussions in the Negotiation, Conflict and the News Media series focus on exploring the relationship
Negotiating With Your Children
Harvard International Negotiation Initiative Director Dan Shapiro appeared in a WBZ-TV4 news segment about negotiating with your child. The piece also highlighted the February 2008 Negotiation newsletter article, “Negotiate better relationships with your children.”
Watch it online at WBZ-TV4.
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