Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

The Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School welcomes students from across the Boston area who are interested in negotiation, mediation, and conflict management. Advancing issues of negotiation is central to our mission of helping individuals become more effective leaders. That’s why we offer students access to expert insights, internship opportunities, funding for research, and more.

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EXPLORE OUR STUDENT RESOURCES
INSIGHTS FROM WORLD-RENOWNED EXPERTS

We host various events throughout the year, including conversations with world leaders, film series, book discussions, and seminars on current negotiation and mediation tactics employed around the globe. For details about upcoming events, click here.

Grant and Fellowship Application Due Dates:
PON Graduate Research Fellowship – Due February 6, 2025
PON Summer Fellowship Grant – Due March 7, 2025

FUNDING FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH

PON provides fellowship and grant opportunities to help qualified individuals pursue academic research and projects in the field of negotiation.

Graduate Research Fellowships
Graduate Research Fellowships are designed to encourage young scholars from the social sciences and professional disciplines to pursue theoretical, empirical, and/or applied research in negotiation and dispute resolution. Each fellow receives a $35,000 stipend for one year of dissertation research and writing in negotiation and related topics in alternative dispute resolution. The fellowship also provides full access to PON facilities and Harvard libraries.

For list of past awardees and application process, click here.

Summer Fellowships
Summer fellowship grants focus on the connection between scholarship and practice in negotiation and dispute resolution by supporting students interested in exploring career paths, either professional or academic. Summer fellowships provide students at Harvard University, MIT, Tufts University, and other Boston-area schools with up to $3,500 for internships or summer research projects in negotiation and dispute resolution in partnership with public, nonprofit, or academic organizations..

For list of past awardees and application process, click here.

Next Generation Grants
Next Generation Grants support research in negotiation and conflict resolution by nontenured faculty and doctoral students. Faculty and students from any school or department within PON’s interuniversity consortium (Harvard, MIT, Tufts) may apply. Postdoctoral students with formal affiliations to Harvard or one of our consortium schools are also welcome to apply. Doctoral student grants are limited to $5,000; nontenured, tenure-track faculty grants are limited to $10,000.

For list of past awardees and application process, click here.

Graduate Student Grants
Our Student Grants program supports cutting-edge research projects in the field of negotiation and conflict resolution at the graduate level. Grants are awarded for specific research projects in amounts of up to $1,000. Students from any Boston-area school may apply.

For list of past awardees and application process, click here.

COURSES

Harvard Law School Negotiation and Mediation Programs
Harvard Law School offers a number of negotiation and mediation opportunities in addition to the offerings at PON:


PON Live! Negotiation: The Game Has changed

Diane Long   •  12/04/2024   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, student

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The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present:

PON Live! Book Talk
Negotiation: The Game Has Changed

 
A virtual talk with:

Max Bazerman
Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Executive Committee Member, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School
 

Thursday, January 30, 2025
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET (US and Canada)
Free and open to the public.
Click to … Read PON Live! Negotiation: The Game Has changed

PON Live! Teaching Negotiation in Prison

Diane Long   •  12/04/2024   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, student

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The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present:

PON Live! 
Teaching Negotiation in Prison
A virtual talk with:

Max Bevilacqua
Founder and Managing Director
Mindful Negotiating
 
Thursday, January 23, 2025
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET (US and Canada)
Free and open to the public.
Click to access the Zoom registration link.
The session will be recorded. Pending approval, we will post the … Read PON Live! Teaching Negotiation in Prison

International Norms and Islamic Principles: Exploring Commonalities for Peacebuilding

Diane Long   •  11/18/2024   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, student, The Kelman Seminar

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The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution presents:

International Norms and Islamic Principles:
Exploring Commonalities for Peacebuilding
A virtual discussion with:

Dr. Houda Abadi
Executive Director
Transformative Peace

Eldridge Adolfo
Senior Advisor of Dialogue and Mediation
Folke Bernadotte Academy, Stockholm

Mark Muller Stuart KC
Professor of Practice
Edinburgh University

Tuesday, December 10, 2024
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Free and open … Learn More About This Program

Kelman Seminar: Ukraine: What Next?

Diane Long   •  10/16/2024   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, student, The Kelman Seminar

The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution presents:

Ukraine: What Next?

A virtual talk with:

Alexandra Vacroux
Vice President for Strategic Engagement, Kyiv School of Economics
(on leave from Harvard’s Davis Center for 2024-2025)
 
Monday, November 4, 2024
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, ET (US and Canada)
Free and open to the public.

About the talk:

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine … Read Kelman Seminar: Ukraine: What Next?

Kelman Seminar: Negotiating Peace Agreements in the Face of Global Challenges: The Case of Mozambique

Diane Long   •  09/20/2024   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, student, The Kelman Seminar

The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution presents:

Negotiating Peace Agreements in the Face of Global Challenges:
The Case of Mozambique

A discussion with:

Ambassador Mirko Manzoni
Swiss Ambassador to South Africa, Botswana,
Namibia, Lesotho, Mauritius, and Eswatini
Permanent Representative to SADC
Former Under Secretary General
Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General
for Mozambique

Neha Sanghrajka
Senior Conflict Sensitivity Advisor – UNOPS
Fellow … Learn More About This Program

Kelman Seminar: Mandela’s Leadership Blueprint – The Future of Leadership

Diane Long   •  09/18/2024   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, student, The Kelman Seminar

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The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution presents:

Mandela’s Leadership Blueprint – The Future of Leadership

A discussion with:

Anne Pratt
Research Fellow
Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative 2017
Harvard Center for African Studies 2018
 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, ET (US and Canada)
Free and open to the public.
Click here to access Zoom registration link.

This session … Learn More About This Program

PON Live! The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World

Diane Long   •  09/09/2024   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, student

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The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present:

PON Live! Book Talk
The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World

A virtual talk with:

Stuart E. Eizenstat
Former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union
Attorney, Covington & Burling LLP

Robert Mnookin, Moderator
Williston Professor of Law, Emeritus
Director, Harvard Negotiation Research Project
Former Chair, Program on … Learn More About This Program

PON Live! From Vision to Action: Remaking the World Through Social Entrepreneurship and Peacebuilding

Diane Long   •  08/14/2024   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, student

Book Cover_From Vision to Action

The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present:

PON Live! Book Talk
From Vision to Action:
Remaking the World Through Social Entrepreneurship and Peacebuilding

A virtual talk with:

John Marks
Founder, Search for Common Ground
 

Monday, September 23, 2024
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET (US and Canada)
Free and open to the public.
Click to access the Zoom registration link.
The session … Learn More About This Program

PON Live! Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions

Diane Long   •  07/15/2024   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, student

Deals Book Cover

The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present:

PON Live! Book Talk
Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions

 

A virtual talk with:

Guhan Subramanian
Chair, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School
Joseph H. Flom Professor of Law and Business Harvard Law School
Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law Harvard Business School
 

Tuesday, September 10, 2024
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm … Learn More About This Program

PON Live! The Art of Asking Questions in Mediation and Negotiation

Diane Long   •  05/21/2024   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, student

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The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present:

PON Live!
The Art of Asking Questions in Mediation and Negotiation

Click here to view the presentation slides.
A webinar with:

David Hoffman
John H. Watson, Jr., Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
Faculty, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
Mediator, Arbitrator, Attorney, Boston Law Collaborative, LLC
 
Monday, June 24, 2024
12:00 pm … Learn More About This Program

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