The March 19, 2007, issue of Time magazine featured an article on William Ury’s new book, The Power of a Positive No. “No may be the most powerful word in the language, but it’s also potentially the most destructive, which is why it’s hard to say,” says Ury. Read the complete article at Time.com.
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William L. Ury co-founded Harvard’s Program on Negotiation and is currently a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Negotiation Project. He is the author of The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No & Still Get to Yes (2007) and co-author (with Roger Fisher) of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, an eight-million-copy bestseller translated into over thirty languages. “No other book in the field comes close to its impact on the way practitioners, teachers, researchers, and the public approach negotiation,” comments the National Institute on Dispute Resolution. Ury is also author of the award-winning Getting Past No: Negotiating with Difficult People and Getting To Peace (released in paperback under the title The Third Side.)
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The Power of a Positive No: How to say No and Still get to a Yes
Listen to the podcast of William Ury describing the “Positive No” from his new book with stories of Stephen Spielberg and Hugo Chavez.
No is perhaps the most important and certainly the most powerful word in the language. Every day we find ourselves in situations where we need to say No — to people at
The Power of a Positive No
Click here to listen to the podcast of Ury describing the “Positive No” from his new book with stories of Stephen Spielberg and Hugo Chavez.
Click here to watch the video of Ury discussing his book.
No is perhaps the most important and certainly the most powerful word in the language. Every day we find ourselves in
Gandhi’s Nonviolent Principles Show Way Toward Peaceful World
The nonviolent principles of Mohandas Gandhi may be the only way to bring peace to the world, Gandhi’s granddaughter said Monday (Dec. 4).
Human rights activist and former South African member of parliament Ela Gandhi told about 160 people gathered in Harvard Law School’s Pound Hall that violent victory sows the seeds of its own destruction.
The Abraham Path Initiative
Please join Global Negotiation Project Director William Ury for a talk about the first Abraham Path Initiative Harvard Study Tour.
The aim of the Abraham Path Initiative is to inspire and assist the opening of a route for tourism and walking that retraces the footsteps of the Prophet Abraham. During the first two weeks of November,
Negotiation: The Hidden Dimension of the Nonviolent Struggles of our Era
This symposium is intended to heighten awareness of the two frameworks for dealing with conflict, illuminating differences as well as shared values and strategies. It is our hope that the symposium will show how both negotiation and nonviolent action have been used to deal with some of the most intractable conflicts – including political struggles
‘Go Forth From Your Country’
On Tuesday, November 14, delegates from 10 countries, including PON Managing Director Susan Hackley and led by William L. Ury, director of the Global Negotiation Project (GNP), concluded a two-week tour of some of the Middle East’s most ancient and holy sites. The tour participants were looking to advance plans for a path—The Abraham Path
PON Film Series: A Force More Powerful
Film and Discussion with Jack DuVall, Executive Producer
Join the Program on Negotiation (PON) for a partial screening of A FORCE MORE POWERFUL, the Emmy-nominated PBS series that portrays the strategies at the heart of six major nonviolent struggles. We will show the program on the 1980 Gdansk shipyard strikes in Poland where ordinary workers used
The Intersection of Negotiation and Nonviolent Action: A Conversation with Dr. Gene Sharp and Dr. William Ury
Click here to watch the webcast of this event.
Please join the Program on Negotiation for an informal dialogue on negotiation and nonviolent action with Dr. Gene Sharp and Dr. William Ury moderated by PON Managing Director Susan Hackley. During this conversation, we seek to highlight the strengths and challenges of both approaches to conflict as
Ury and Weiss Interviewed by the Beyond Intractability Project
Beyond Intractability is a full text knowledge base with information about constructive approaches for dealing with especially difficult conflicts which seem to resist resolution. Written by over 100 leading scholars and practitioners from around the world, the site contains 200+ essays, 100 audio interviews, and 2000+ references to outside resources. All the resources are full-text
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