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:


Negotiating with Vladimir Putin

PON Staff   •  02/19/2020   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, student, The Kelman Seminar

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

Negotiating with Vladimir Putin
(This event was not recorded.)
 
A virtual discussion with:

Bruce Allyn
Senior Fellow, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School

Wednesday, May 19, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, ET (U.S. and Canada)
 

About the event:

Bruce Allyn applies insight from the fields of negotiation and mediation to … Read Negotiating with Vladimir Putin

Announcing the 2019-2020 PON Visiting Scholar

Diane Long   •  01/16/2020   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, Research Projects

Matt Waldman
Visiting Fellow, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
Adviser to the United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen
Director of the Center for Empathy in International Affairs
 

Matt Waldman specializes in high-level diplomacy and mediation in armed conflict. He previously served as an adviser to the UN Special Representative for Somalia (2016-2018), the UN Special Envoy for … Read Announcing the 2019-2020 PON Visiting Scholar

Announcing the Fall 2019 Graduate Student Grant Awardees

Diane Long   •  01/07/2020   •  Filed in PON Graduate Student Grants, PON Next Generation Grants

Twice yearly the Program on Negotiation runs concurrent grant programs: the Next Generation Grant and Graduate Student Grant. The Next Generation Grant program supports research in negotiation and conflict resolution by non-tenured faculty and doctoral students, and the Graduate Student Grant program encourages supports cutting-edge research at the graduate level.

We wish to announce our latest … Learn More About This Program

Announcing the Fall 2019 Next Generation Grant Awardees

Diane Long   •  01/07/2020   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, PON Next Generation Grants

Twice yearly the Program on Negotiation runs the Next Generation Grant program, which supports research in negotiation and conflict resolution by non-tenured faculty and doctoral students.

We wish to announce our latest grant awardees:

Sean Paul Ashley
Harvard University
Research project: “Fighting Rebels, Killing Civilians: Explaining Mass Killing in Africa. ”

David Sulewski
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Research project: “Humanitarian Corridors: the … Learn More About This Program

Negotiating and Litigating Discrimination in Israel-Palestine 2019

Diane Long   •  09/25/2019   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, student, The Kelman Seminar

The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution,
the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and the Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative present:

Negotiating and Litigating Discrimination in
Israel-Palestine 2019
 
A discussion with:

Fady Khoury
S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School
Graduate Research Fellow at the Program on Negotiation at HLS
 

Rami Younis
Palestinian writer and cultural activist, Journalist
Movie Director, … Learn More About This Program

2019 Program on Negotiation Open House

Diane Long   •  08/30/2019   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, Student Events

You are cordially invited to the 2019
PON Open House

Interested in the fields of negotiation, conflict resolution, and mediation? Join us!
Thursday, September 19, 2019
6:30 – 8:00 PM
Milstein West A, Wasserstein Hall
Harvard Law School Campus


Come meet PON faculty from Harvard, MIT, Tufts and other schools in the Greater Boston area.  Find out how you can be involved, … Read 2019 Program on Negotiation Open House

Announcing the 2019 PON Summer Fellows

Diane Long   •  05/24/2019   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Summer Fellowship Grants

negotiation topics in business six negotiation strategies for integrative negotiations involving haggling

PON offers fellowship grants to students at Harvard University, MIT, Tufts University and other Boston-area schools who are doing internships or undertaking summer research projects in negotiation and dispute resolution in partnership with public, nonprofit or academic organizations. The Summer Fellowship Program’s emphasis is on advancing the links between scholarship and practice in negotiation and … Read Announcing the 2019 PON Summer Fellows

Announcing the 2019-2020 PON Graduate Research Fellows

Diane Long   •  04/22/2019   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Graduate Research Fellowships, PON Graduate Research Fellowships

The Program on Negotiation 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. Consistent with PON’s goal of fostering the development of the next generation of scholars, this program provides support for one year of dissertation … Learn More About This Program

New Findings in the Field of Negotiation II: Yasmin Zaerpoor and Gali Racabi

Diane Long   •  04/05/2019   •  Filed in Events, Graduate Research Fellowships, PON Graduate Research Fellowships

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

New Findings in the Field of Negotiation II:
Research from the PON Graduate Research Fellows
With

Yasmin Zaerpoor
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and 

Gali Racabi
S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School
 
Friday, April 19, 2018
*New Time and Location*
12:15 – 1:45 pm
Hauser Hall, Room 104
Harvard Law … Learn More About This Program

New Findings in the Field of Negotiation I: Benjamin J. Spatz and Talia Gillis

PON Staff   •  04/05/2019   •  Filed in Events, Graduate Research Fellowships, PON Graduate Research Fellowships

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

New Findings in the Field of Negotiation I:
Research from the PON Graduate Research Fellows
with

Benjamin J. Spatz
Ph.D. Candidate, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University 
and

Talia Gillis
PhD. Candidate, Harvard Business School and the Economics Department, Harvard University
S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School
 
Thursday, April 18, 2019
12:00 … Learn More About This Program

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