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.

Due to the University-wide hiring freeze, grant and fellowship application due dates for academic year 2025-2026 are under review and will be announced in the coming months.

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 $42,000 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:

Conflict Resolution in Social/Political Organizations

PON Staff   •  11/17/2008   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, Student Events

What are the particular psychological dynamics of social/political organizations? How do strong emotions, deep values and generational differences affect the work of public interest lawyers and other professionals? What strategies of conflict resolution and dispute systems design are most effective for people who work with these organizations? Professor Eben Weitzman will draw on his conflict … Learn More About This Program

The PON Student Interest Group (SIG) Fireside Chat

PON Staff   •  10/29/2008   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, Student Events

Professor Michael Stein
Visiting Professor of Law, HLS
Executive Director, Harvard Project on Disability

Please join Professor Michael Stein for a talk on negotiating disability human rights.

Professor Michael Stein is the Executive Director of the Harvard Project on Disability and a Visiting Professor from the College of William & Mary School of Law where he is a Cabell … Learn More About This Program

Student Interest Group Fireside Chat with Prof. Robert Mnookin

PON Staff   •  09/17/2008   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, Student Events

Robert Mnookin
Williston Professor of Law, HLS Faculty Chair, PON

Please join Professor Robert Mnookin as he talks about his career path, shares his research interests, and offers advice to students interested in working in the field of negotiation and conflict resolution.

A leading expert in the field of conflict resolution, Williston Professor of Law Robert H. Mnookin … Learn More About This Program

Program on Negotiation Open House

PON Staff   •  09/15/2008   •  Filed in Awards, Grants, and Fellowships, Events, Student Events

Interested in negotiation and conflict resolution?

Meet students, faculty and others interested in Alternative Dispute Resolution at PON’s annual Open House! Free food and drinks, and information about ways for students to get involved.
Brief presentations at 7:30 pm.

The negotiation social event of the year!

For more info, contact Sarah Whitman at swhitman@law.harvard.edu or 617-495-9689. … Read Program on Negotiation Open House

Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program

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The Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) provides Harvard Law School students with practical, real-world experience in the fields of negotiation, dispute resolution and conflict management, with a focus on conflict mapping and dispute systems design. Students in the program are paired with outside organizations, institutions or individuals who provide projects related to negotiation, … Learn More About This Program

Harvard Negotiators

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Harvard Negotiators (“HN”) is an HLS student organization that seeks to provide law students with opportunities to become actively involved in the field of negotiation and dispute resolution while working with clients in the “real” world.

Using the core concepts developed by faculty and researchers at the Program on Negotiation, Harvard Negotiators works on teams to … Read Harvard Negotiators

Consortium & Boston Area Schools

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For additional information about the current offerings at PON’s consortium schools and other Boston area universities offering courses in conflict resolution and negotiation please visit their websites:

Harvard Business School
Harvard Law School
Harvard University
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Brandeis University
Simmons College
UMass Boston
… Read Consortium & Boston Area Schools