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This panel offered participants a series of frames to better appreciate psychopathology and the role of relationships in real-world conflict situations. It also examined characteristics of psychopathology, as well as the relational context in which clinical problem solving takes place. The lecture was followed by break-out groups, where participants applied ideas from the seminar series … Learn More About This Program

Lessons Learned From Recent Historic Conferences with Chinese and Tibetan Scholars

With Lobsang Sangay, HLS graduate and current Research Fellow at East Asian Legal Studies.

Chinese and Tibetan scholars have met over the past four years at Harvard to discuss the current political situation. Lobsang Sangay has attended these meetings and is presenting his personal account of … Read Track II Diplomacy and the Sino-Tibetan Issue

With David Tressler, Harvard Law School student (’06) and a Hewlett Research Fellow with the Harvard Negotiation Research Project.

Members of the U.S. military conduct thousands of negotiations with Iraqi civilians and their leaders to accomplish their mission of securing, stabilizing, and reconstructing Iraq. While a successful outcome in one negotiation may not be crucial, the … Learn More About This Program

Gabriella Blum, Harvard Law School

Matthew Levinger, Academy for Genocide Prevention

Join Gabriella Blum and Matthew Levinger to discuss the September 2005 conference on genocide prevention held at the US Holocaust Museum.

Gabriella Blum is the Learned Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Matthew Levinger is the director of the Academy for Genocide Prevention, a project of … Read Negotiating With Killers

For over two decades, the island of Sri Lanka has been home to civil war. The conflict between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is based on the LTTE’s demand for self-determination in the North and East of Sri Lanka. The conflict has claimed over 65,000 lives, including … Learn More About This Program

Dr. Lisa Schirch, Eastern Mennonite University

Lisa Schirch is working with a variety of partner organizations in Washington D.C. on a campaign to promote a balanced security toolkit that includes peacebuilding approaches. Building on what President Bush calls the 3 Ds of security: defense, development, and diplomacy, Dr. Schirch will analyze Secretary Rice’s new “transformational diplomacy” … Learn More About This Program

Donna Hicks, Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

On March 4-6, 2006, the BBC aired Facing the Truth, a three part television series that brought victims and perpetrators of the conflict in Northern Ireland together for dialogue. Archbishop Desmond Tutu facilitated the encounters along with Lesley Bilinda, whose husband was killed in the Rwandan … Learn More About This Program

Join PON for a special three-session discussion on how Track II Diplomacy helps defuse conflict around the world.

At this second session, the panelists will reflect on how to facilitate dialogue between the young leaders of these two countries.

Panelists include:
Roger Fisher, Harvard Law School
Herbert Kelman, Harvard University
Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ronald Fisher, American University
Adil Najam, … Learn More About This Program