A multi-year effort to critique contemporary negotiation pedagogy and create new training designs, in cooperation with the JAMS Foundation, ADR Center, Italy and the Negotiation Journal.
Overview
The contemporary pedagogy of negotiation is predominantly an American export product. Moreover, it is, for all intents and purposes, a "first generation" product, in need of review and overhaul. For universities trying to influence the future of conflict resolution, a continuing challenge is to critically examine what is taught in negotiation and how we teach it, with special emphasis on how best to "translate" teaching methodology to succeed with diverse, global audiences.
To meet this challenge, Hamline University School of Law, in cooperation with the Negotiation Journal at Harvard University, the JAMS Foundation, and ADR Center Italy, has embarked on an ambitious multi-year, cross-disciplinary, global initiative. The project will offer a unique opportunity for international conflict resolution scholars and teacher/trainers to critique contemporary negotiation pedagogy and contribute to development of "second generation" negotiation training design. The particular focus will be on the short "executive" courses which have now proliferated around the world. After the Rome Conference in 2008, project scholarship was published in Rethinking Negotiation Teaching: Innovations for Context and Culture (DRI Press 2009). In addition, eight articles drafted by participants at the initiative's first public event (a May 2008 Rome Teaching conference), appeared in a special section in Volume 25, Issue 2 of the Negotiation Journal (April 2009). Scholarship from the Istanbul Conference will be published by DRI Press in Spring 2009 and will be available on this web site. In addition, several articles will be published in Hamline University School of Law Journal of Public Law and Policy.
Results So Far
- Rethinking Negotiation Teaching: Innovations for Context and Culture (DRI Press 2009)
- Negotiation Journal, Volume 25, Issue 2 (April 2009): Special Section
The Rome Conference (May 2008)
The Istanbul Conference (October 2009)
- Istanbul Conference Agenda (PDF)
- Istanbul Participant List
- Secure site for authors (login required)
Next on the Agenda: Beijing China (May 2011)
Steering Committee Members
