United Nations

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Public International Law in Practice: Insights from Work in the Field

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Susan Page has worked for the US Department of State, the US Agency for International Development, and the United Nations Development Program and has been based in the US, Kenya, Botswana, Rwanda, and Sudan. She was a member of the mediation team that produced the Comprehensive Peace Agreement for the Sudan, and now works for

Strategies for Humanitarian Aid Workers Who Come Into Conflict with Armed Groups

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Ruth Allen, Program Officer, Mercy Corps
Gerard McHugh, President, Conflict Dynamics Intl.
Jim Tull, International Conflict Management Specialist

Please join representatives from Conflict Dynamics International (CDI) and Mercy Corps for a discussion about their joint Humanitarian Negotiators Training Initiative (HNTI), which explores the unique situation that aid workers often face: negotiating with non-state

Ambassador Luis Gallegos on Negotiating United Nations Human Rights Treaties

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International Legal Studies, East Asian Legal Studies, the Human Rights Program, and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School present a discussion with Ambassador Luis Gallegos

Ambassador Gallegos was appointed Ecuador’s Ambassador to the United States on October 1, 2005. Prior to this position, he was Ecuador’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He is

Ambassador Terje Roed-Larsen

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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Middle East Forum at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Middle East Initiative at KSG, and the Program on Negotiation present a discussion with Ambassador Terje Roed-Larsen.

Ambassador Terje Roed-Larsen is currently the United Nations Special Envoy for the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1559 (on

The Program on Negotiation Names International Refugees Advocate Sadako Ogata as the 2005 Great Negotiator

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Great Negotiator Award Presentation

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Former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is the 6th recipient of the Great Negotiator Award presented by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School

CAMBRIDGE, MA (October 6, 2005)

The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School today announced that the recipient of its 2005 Great Negotiator award

Negotiating to Peace — Lessons Learned from Ireland to Iraq

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Speakers:
Mari Fitzduff

Using an international context, Brandeis University Professor Mari Fitzduff will address how to be a successful mediator, particularly if you are an outside intervener in a conflict.

Mari Fitzduff is Professor of Coexistence at Brandeis University and Director of the Master’s Program in the Slifka Program in Intercommunal Coexistence at Brandeis. Prior to leading the

PON Names International Refugee Advocate Sadako Ogata as 2005 Great Negotiator

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Faculty Discussion
Great Negotiator Award Presentation

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Former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is the 6th recipient of the Great Negotiator Award presented by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
CAMBRIDGE, MA (October 6, 2005)

The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School today announced that the recipient of its 2005 Great Negotiator award

Richard Holbrooke Receives the 2004 Great Negotiator Award

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Richard Holbrooke Receives the 2004 Great Negotiator Award
by Sally Abrahms, Harvard Law School News Office

Richard Holbrooke was the premier architect of the 1995 peace agreement that ended the war in Bosnia and a skillful negotiator credited with resolving the bitter dispute over dues owed in arrears by the United States to the United Nations. Last

Richard Holbrooke Receives the Great Negotiator Award

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Faculty
Discussion I:
Negotiating an End to the Balkans Crisis
Richard Holbrooke
Antonia Handler Chayes
James Sebenius
Michael Watkins

Faculty Discussion II:
Resolving the United Nations Dues Dispute
Richard Holbrooke
Hannah Riley Bowles
Robert Orr
James Sebenius

Great Negotiator Award Presentation
Richard Holbrooke
Lawrence Summers
Robert Mnookin
James Sebenius

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Download Background Materials for our Discussion with Richard Holbrooke:

“Richard Holbrooke: Negotiating U.S. Dues to the United Nations (A)”

“Richard Holbrooke: Negotiating U.S.

The Evolving Field of Conflict Resolution

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A Talk With Matthew Hodes
Director, Conflict Resolution Program, The Carter Center

Please join us for this discussion with Matthew Hodes on the evolution of the conflict resolution field from his perspective as director of one of the field’s pioneering organizations.

As director of the Carter Center’s Conflict Resolution Program, Mr. Hodes manages and oversees the Center’s conflict