This page is a gateway to scholarship from Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program faculty and students in the field of dispute management and conflict engagement.
From the Field: A Topic-Focused Guide Series from the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program
This guide series seeks to bring together learnings and insights from HNMCP’s clinical projects since its founding in 2006. The content of each of these guides reflects themes that have recurred across projects in a particular arena of dispute resolution, and includes prescriptive advice drawing on the recommendations our students have provided based on best practices from the field. In order to preserve confidentiality for our clients, these guides do not share the findings or recommendations of individual projects. We hope that this series can be useful to multiple audiences, including experienced practitioners in the field, academics who study dispute resolution systems, and leaders within organizations seeking to strengthen their mechanisms for conflict engagement.
From the Field: An Ombuds Guide
Oladeji Tiamiyu ’20, HLS/HNMCP alum; HNMCP Clinical Fellow 2020–current
The “Ombuds Guide” provides an overview of important learning lessons and insights HNMCP has gathered working with ombuds offices—at government agencies, colleges and universities, non-profits organizations, and private institutions, both domestic and international. It is our hope that this guide will provide guidance for both practitioners in the field and interested stakeholders about the challenges and opportunities with which ombuds grapple.
From the Field: Restorative Justice Guide
Deanna Pantín Parrish ʼ16, HLS/HNMCP alum; HNMCP Clinical Instructor 2020–current
The “Restorative Justice Guide” brings together learnings and insights from HNMCP’s experience in the area of restorative justice. The content of this guide reflects themes that emerged in our clinical work through the Dispute Systems Design Clinic, as well as symposia organized by the Harvard Negotiation Law Review in recent years. We hope that these insights can be useful to multiple audiences, including experienced practitioners in the area of restorative justice, academics who focus on conflict management processes, and others—teachers, managers, organizers, activists—who are interested in exploring the possibility of integrating restorative justice practices into their work.
Public Reports from the Dispute Systems Design Clinic
Deanna Pantín Parrish ʼ16, HLS/HNMCP alum; HNMCP Clinical Instructor 2020–current
The American Bar Association
This report is the result of a project for the Spring 2021 semester of HNMCP’s Dispute Systems Design Clinic. The students on this project, Julian Huertas GSD ′21 and Daniel Nissimyan GSE ′21, collected the data upon which this analysis and report is based.
Project Supervisor and Report Author: Deanna Pantín Parrish
Rethinking Boston’s Public Safety System
William Roberts ’22, HLS/HNMCP alum
Anna Vande Velde ’21, HLS/HNMCP alum
This report is the result of a project for the Fall 2020 semester of HNMCP’s Dispute Systems Design Clinic
Project Supervisor: Rachel Viscomi
Power, Protest, and Political Change
Brooke Davies ‘21, HLS/HNMCP alum
Daniel Oyolu ‘21, HLS/HNMCP alum
This report is the result of a project designed by Brooke and Daniel for advanced work in the Fall 2020 semester of HNMCP’s Dispute Systems Design Clinic
Project Supervisor: Lisa Dicker
Articles
The Impending Battle for the Soul of Online Dispute Resolution
Oladeji Tiamiyu ’20, HLS/HNMCP alum; HNMCP Clinical Fellow 2020-current
23 Cardozo Journal of Dispute Resolution 21 (2021)
Covid-19 and Conflicts: The Health of Peace Processes During a Pandemic
Lisa Dicker ’17, HLS/HNMCP alum; HNMCP Clinical Instructor 2020–current
Danae Askar ’16, HLS alum
Harvard Negotiation Law Review (2020)
Three Ways of Looking at Dispute Resolution
Andrew Mamo ’14, HLS/HNMCP alum; HNMCP Clinical Instructor 2017–2020
54 Wake Forest Law Review 1399 (2019)
The Peace vs. Justice Puzzle and the Syrian Crisis
Lisa Dicker ’17, HLS/HNMCP alum; HNMCP Clinical Instructor 2020–current
C. Danae Paterson ’16, HLS Alum
Paul R. Williams
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law Vol. 24:2 (2018)
Lisa Dicker ’17, HLS/HNMCP alum; HNMCP Clinical Instructor 2020–current
Shane Hebel ’17, HLS/HNMCP alum
988 The University of Memphis Law Review Vol. 48 (2018)
Heather Scheiwe Kulp, HNMCP Clinical Fellow 2012–2014, HNMCP Clinical Instructor 2014–2017
Amanda Kool, HLS Lecturer on Law
Washington University Journal of Law & Policy Vol. 48 (2015)
Foreclosure Dispute Resolution Programs: Do They Work?
Heather Scheiwe Kulp, HNMCP Clinical Fellow 2012–2014, HNMCP Clinical Instructor 2014–2017
Probate & Property, November/December (2013)
A (Mortgage) Crisis in Communication: Foreclosure Dispute Resolution as Effective Response
Heather Scheiwe Kulp, HNMCP Clinical Fellow 2012–2014, HNMCP Clinical Instructor 2014–2017
66 Arkansas Law Review 186 (2013)
Resolving Cultural Property Disputes in the Shadow of the Law
Grant Strother ’12, HLS/HNMCP alum
Harvard Negotiation Law Review (Spring 2014)
Case Studies
Role simulations focusing on negotiation and conflict engagement skills—written and tested by faculty at the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program and ready for classroom use—are available for sale through the HLS Case Studies website.