violence

Violence is the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against a person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation. This definition associates intentionality with the committing of the act itself, irrespective of the outcome it produces.

The following items are tagged violence.

Jared Curhan, PON Executive Committee

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Jared R. Curhan is the Ford International Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Organization Studies at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he specializes in the psychology of negotiation and conflict resolution. He received his BA in Psychology from Harvard University and his MA and PhD in Psychology from Stanford University. A recipient of support from the National Science Foundation, Curhan has pioneered a social psychological approach to the study of “subjective value” in negotiation (i.e., social, perceptual, and emotional consequences of a negotiation).

Herbert Kelman

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HERBERT C. KELMAN is the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, at Harvard University and was (from 1993 to 2003) Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Yale University in 1951. He is past president of the International Studies Association, the International Society of Political Psychology, the Interamerican Society of Psychology, and several other professional associations.

Jared Curhan

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Jared R. Curhan is the Ford International Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Organization Studies at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he specializes in the psychology of negotiation and conflict resolution. He received his BA in Psychology from Harvard University and his MA and PhD in Psychology from Stanford University. A recipient of

Somerville Mediation Program

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Somerville Mediation Program

Somerville Community Corporation
One Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144
617-625-6600 X6146

Contact: Alice Comack
acomack@k12.somerville.ma.us

There is an internship available in our peer-mediation program at Somerville High School. This program primarily handles disputes between students. Intern duties include conducting intake and setting up mediations, co-mediating and assisting in the training of student mediators. A requirement for this internship is

Caught in the middle

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Adapted from “When You’re Stuck in the Middle,” by Susan Hackley (Managing Director, Program on Negotiation), first published in the Negotiation newsletter.
At a company in a Midwestern city, employees were divided into two camps: those loyal to the founder and his vision of a mom-and-pop business with a dozen regional stores, and those aligned with

Negotiating Without Conditions

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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

Coexistence: The Arts of Building Peace

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Coexistence: The Arts of Building Peace
BRANDEIS PEACE, CONFLICT, AND COEXISTENCE STUDIES

NOT OFFERED FALL 2012

Instructor:
Cynthia Cohen
781-736-2133

How can music, theatre, poetry, literature, and visual arts contribute to community development, coexistence, and non-violent social change? In the aftermath of violence, how can artists help communities reconcile? Students explore these questions through interviews, case studies, and projects. (Fall: Tuesday

Encounter Point

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“Sometimes I’m very angry with myself that I didn’t protect my child. So what do you do with this pain? Do you take it and look for revenge and keep the whole cycle of violence going, or do you choose another path to prevent further death and further pain to other parents.”
-Robi Damelin, Israeli
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Gender, Culture, and Conflict in Humanitarian Complex Emergencies

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Gender, Culture, and Conflict in Humanitarian Complex Emergencies (DHP D232)
FLETCHER SCHOOL

SPRING
Instructor:
Dyan Mazurana
Friedman School of Nutrition
617-627-3203

This course examines situations of armed conflict and complex emergencies and the international and national humanitarian, human rights and military responses to these situations from a gender perspective and highlights the policy and program implications that this perspective presents.

Conflict Resolution Theory

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Conflict Resolution Theory (DHP D223)
FLETCHER SCHOOL

SPRING
Instructor:
Eileen Babbitt
617-627-3796

International conflict resolution is a field of practice and of theoretical study. The primary goal of international conflict resolution is to use means other than violence to settle both inter-state and intra-state disputes, and to transform the relationships of disputing parties such that violence is not likely