Events

Presenters:
Sallyann Roth and Robert R. Stains

“ADR practitioners face many dilemmas when parties to a conflict have markedly different social, economic, and educational backgrounds with unequal access to resources. Issues of language, articulation, meeting structure, mediator role and status, mutual assumptions, physical environment, and fairness in the session must be considered. We will explore the effects … Learn More About This Program

The Dispute Resolution Forum for March will feature Dr. Brian Polkinghorn, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution and Executive Director of the Center for Conflict Resolution at Salisbury State University in Salisbury, MD. He will present the findings from over 2000 surveys completed by mediators that form part of a nationwide evaluation of the US Equal … Learn More About This Program

Dennis Ross, Director for Policy Planning in the State Department under President George H. W. Bush and Special Middle East Coordinator under President Clinton, will discuss “Prospects for Peace in the Middle East” on Monday, March 11, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., in Spangler Hall at the Harvard Business School (Harvard Business School Map). … Learn More About This Program

Moderated by Robert Mnookin

Mindfulness in the Law & ADR
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Join Leonard Riskin, Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Columbia, the Program on Negotiation’s Robert Mnookin, and a panel of distinguished professors and professionals in a discussion of the role of mindfulness in the law and alternative dispute resolution (ADR).

Inspired by Professor Riskin’s … Read Mindfulness in the Law & ADR

There will be an introduction by the director, Charles Belmont, and Alain Pekar Lempereur, Professor at ESSEC and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. After the film screening, join a discussion led by Former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard and Film Director Charles Belmont.

In 1988, violence erupted in New Caledonia, an island in the … Read US Premiere of “Mediators of the Pacific”

At the February meeting of the Dispute Resolution Forum (DRF), Jamie Suarez Potts will draw parallels between her work in South Africa, working with leaders in townships following the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, and her efforts in the US, where she is associated with the New England Region Criminal Justice Program of the … Read Pain, Suffering, Fear, Hope

Keith Murnighan will be the February speaker at the Seminar on Psychological Processes in Negotiation. He is the Harold J. Hines Jr. Distinguished Professor of Risk Management at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. The title of his presentation is Live and Internet Auction Bidding: Experimental and Field Studies, based on a paper … Learn More About This Program

Presenter:
Arnold M. Zack

The United States has the reputation for effective use of mediation and arbitration of disputes in unionized workplaces. Anyone who has ever been inconvenienced abroad by frequent strikes of transit or government workers must wonder why other countries don’t adopt a system like ours, free of wildcat strikes. Arnold Zack, whose background and … Learn More About This Program

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Coalition to Fight Terrorism
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Beyond Afghanistan: The Challenges of Building — and Sustaining — a Coalition to Fight Terrorism will be the subject of a “brown bag” lunch sponsored by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School on Wednesday, January 30.

The guest speaker will be Michael D. Watkins, … Learn More About This Program

Professor Michael Watkins and Susan Rosegrant will greet readers and sign copies of their new book, Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Negotiators Transformed the World’s Toughest Post Cold-War Conflicts, at the COOP, Harvard Square, Monday, January 28, at 7 p.m. … Read Watkins/Rosegrant Book Signing at COOP