PON Live! Turn the Tide: Democratizing Negotiation Skills for Global Climate Action
The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present:
PON Live!
Turn the Tide: Democratizing Negotiation Skills for Global Climate Action
Harvard Law School
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET (US and Canada)
Free and open to the public.
About the Talk:
Turn the Tide is a new and growing open-source platform hosting a free curriculum of simulations and cases for teaching climate negotiations and diplomacy. During the webinar, the project’s co-leaders, Monica Giannone, Harvard Kennedy School, and Anselm Dannecker, Washington University in St Louis, will share the approach behind Turn the Tide, outline how the materials can be used, describe how practitioners can collaborate in producing new materials, and reflect on lessons learned in developing new materials together with practitioners.
The website and the materials are the outcome of a two-year process of working closely with senior climate negotiators to distill critical skills for climate action into an integrated body of materials that can be taught online and in person.
Turn the Tide is an interuniversity collaboration hosted at the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Collaboratory at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership. Its mission is to democratize access to learning and to equip individuals, whether representing local administrations or international delegations, with cutting-edge negotiation skills to champion climate solutions.
About the Speaker:
Monica Giannone is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the founding Director of the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Collaboratory (NCRC) at the Center for Public Leadership. She teaches negotiation and leads projects on climate diplomacy, value-based conflict, and power in negotiation. At NCRC, Monica co-leads Turn the Tide, an inter-university collaboration that equips hundreds of climate negotiators and changemakers each year with the skills to advance climate action in high-stakes forums. She also directs Why It Worked, a global research initiative examining how some of the world’s most protracted conflicts have transitioned to durable peace, producing practical tools such as the Propeller Toolkit and contributing to a Negotiation Journal Special Issue. Her broader work spans teaching, curriculum design, and training for governments, foundations, and organizations worldwide, focusing on how negotiation can drive durable agreements and meaningful change. She is a core instructor in numerous Executive Education programs including the Negotiation Strategies Executive Education program at HKS. Giannone holds a Master in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and a BA in Political Science and Religion from Wake Forest University.
Anselm Dannecker is a Lecturer at Washington University School of Law and a former Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He focuses on complex multistakeholder negotiations, with a particular emphasis on international climate diplomacy and legislative negotiations. Dannecker co-leads Turn the Tide, focusing on creating innovative curriculum that makes negotiation training more accessible for diplomats and practitioners around the globe. His teaching and training experience spans legislators, diplomats, civil society leaders, and executives, and he is now exploring how AI can further expand access to negotiation skill-building worldwide. Dannecker has trained and consulted clients from various fields, including European and US legislators, diplomats, civil society actors and Fortune 500 CEOs. He has taught in Executive Education programs at the Harvard Kennedy School and has worked with individuals in targeted one-on-one settings to improve individual performance. Before entering academia, Dannecker served as an Economist and an Adviser to the CEO at IFC (World Bank Group) and worked in various capacities in the German public sector.
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