News
-
![Future Issues for Collaboration and Consensus Building Processes]()
Future Issues for Collaboration and Consensus Building Processes
November 12, 2008
Lawrence Susskind and Suzanne Orenstein convene a working group on public engagement, deliberative democracy, public policy dispute resolution, and alternative dispute resolution for legal disputes.
-
![Addressing the Land Claims of Indigenous Peoples Around the World]()
Addressing the Land Claims of Indigenous Peoples Around the World
September 14, 2008
In this paper, the authors explore 14 cases of indigenous land claims put forth by First Nations around the world to understand the preconditions for effective resolution.
-
![Workable Peace: Ancient Greece and the Peloponnesian War]()
Workable Peace: Ancient Greece and the Peloponnesian War
December 20, 2025
Workable Peace integrates the study of intergroup conflict and development of crucial civic and social skills into social studies and humanities classes. In this module, students explore the historical conflict among the Greek city-states through a role play negotiation between mighty Athens and the small, besieged island of Melos.
-
![Workable Peace: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide in Post-Colonial Africa: Reconciliation in Rwanda]()
Workable Peace: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide in Post-Colonial Africa: Reconciliation in Rwanda
December 20, 2025
Workable Peace is a secondary school project that integrates the study of intergroup conflict and the development of crucial civic and social skills into social studies and humanities classes. In this module, students negotiate on justice and reconciliation between Hutus and Tutsis in a Rwandan village after the Rwandan genocide.
-
![Workable Peace: Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America: Building Peace in Guatemala]()
Workable Peace: Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America: Building Peace in Guatemala
December 20, 2025
Workable Peace is a secondary school project that integrates the study of intergroup conflict and the development of crucial civic and social skills into social studies and humanities classes. In this module, students explore efforts to deal with the legacy of civil war in Guatemala, by negotiating human and indigenous rights and land reform issues left unresolved in the peace agreement.
-
![Workable Peace: Religion and Nationalism in Northern Ireland: Protestant Marches]()
Workable Peace: Religion and Nationalism in Northern Ireland: Protestant Marches
December 20, 2025
Workable Peace is a secondary school project that integrates the study of intergroup conflict and the development of crucial civic and social skills into social studies and humanities classes. In this module, students study the ethnic, political, and religious conflict in Northern Ireland through a role play negotiation over the conduct of annual Protestant marches.
-
![Workable Peace: The Rise of Organized Labor in the United States: The Pullman Strike]()
Workable Peace: The Rise of Organized Labor in the United States: The Pullman Strike
December 20, 2025
Workable Peace is a secondary school project that integrates the study of intergroup conflict and the development of crucial civic and social skills into social studies and humanities classes. In this module, students learn about the birth of the labor movement in the United States, through a role play on negotiations to resolve the 1894 Pullman Strike.
-
![Workable Peace: Managing Conflict in the Middle East: Hebron and the West Bank]()
Workable Peace: Managing Conflict in the Middle East: Hebron and the West Bank
December 20, 2025
Workable Peace is a secondary school project that integrates the study of intergroup conflict and the development of crucial civic and social skills into social studies and humanities classes. In this module, students explore the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a role play on negotiating security and freedom of movement in the West Bank city of Hebron.
-
![Workable Peace: Civil Rights and School Integration in the United States: Boston Busing]()
Workable Peace: Civil Rights and School Integration in the United States: Boston Busing
December 20, 2025
Workable Peace is a secondary school project that integrates the study of intergroup conflict and the development of crucial civic and social skills into social studies and humanities classes. In this module, students examine the legacy of segregation in the United States through a role play on negotiating school integration in Boston in the mid-1970s.
-
![Transboundary Environmental Negotiation]()
Transboundary Environmental Negotiation
December 20, 2025
MIT, Harvard, and Tufts contributors explore emerging environmental problems that pose global negotiation challenges. They suggest strategies for both governments and nongovernmental actors to negotiate for mutual gains and strengthen transboundary environmental governance.
-
![The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR)]()
The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR)
December 20, 2025
This report is designed to provide accurate, unbiased, and policy-relevant scientific information concerning the carbon cycle to a broad range of stakeholders.
-
![Negotiating Environmental Agreements]()
Negotiating Environmental Agreements
December 20, 2025
How can environmental negotiators produce fairer, more efficient, more stable, and wiser results? This book distills lessons of the mutual gains approach taught to business leaders and regulators at Harvard and MIT seminars to more effectively handle environmental negotiations.
481 Stories found