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From Courtrooms to Common Ground: Training Brazilian Judges to Mediate Land Conflicts

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By Deanna Pantín Parrish, Ana Carolina Riella, Tracy Blanchard (with drafting support from the Harvard AI Sandbox) On the outskirts of Paraná, a judge walks among rows of makeshift homes, listening to families describe the uncertainty of life under constant threat of eviction. Later, he meets with landowners, hearing their frustrations over idle property and […]

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Strengthening Environmental Peacebuilding Design in Somalia

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Tanishk Goyal, Lynn Monzer, Abby Elder Access to indigenous seeds and freedom to share, trade, and distribute not only increases agricultural and economic security—thus reducing factors that lead to conflict—but also increases social ties within and across communities. Restricting the ability of individuals and communities to save, trade, and sell indigenous seeds can reduce biodiversity,

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The Wagner Group and Security Sector Reform

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Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) Clinical Instructor Lisa Dicker and former HNMCP student and current consultant with the Metropolitan Group Erin Bloom have just published their contribution to the Armed Groups and International Law (AGIL) blog’s “Wagner Symposium.” AGIL promotes information sharing and community building between individuals and organizations working on issues related

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Students revive historic competition honoring renowned contracts professor

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When Joseph “Joey” Ravenna ’25 first arrived at Harvard Law School in the fall of 2022, he was intrigued by the plaques he saw in Langdell Hall honoring the winners of something called the Williston Negotiation & Contract Drafting Competition.  There were several plaques, each with a decade’s worth of names dating back to the

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Faculty Snapshot: Rachel Viscomi

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Recently Harvard Law School published interviews with a variety of professors whose work engages international actors and issues. Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program Director Rachel Viscomi spoke about international projects undertaken in the Dispute Systems Design Clinic. This interview was originally published on the HLS website. You’ve been involved in dispute systems design in

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Fast-Track Negotiations in Urgent Conflict

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In the fall of 2024, Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program’s Lisa Dicker was in conversation with Mark Freeman, Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Integrated Transitions, as part of the Program on Negotiation‘s Roger Fisher Speaker Series. The conversation was titled, “Rethinking the Negotiation Paradigm: Introducing “Fast-Track” Negotiation.” The two discussed the “fast track” model

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Sustaining Eviction Mediation Efforts “Post Pandemic”: Out of the Courtroom and Into Public Health?

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by Deanna Pantín Parrish “Moving Day” by Nicolas Huk CC BY 2.0 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/128359034@N07/17233058042 This piece was originally published by the America Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Magazine in April 2024. In 2016, I sat in a small conference room just off judge’s chambers, wedged between the parties of an eviction dispute so contentious the bailiff

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‘It’s important to sing, even when it rains’

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First published in Harvard Law Today There were just four weeks until Harvard Law School’s commencement ceremony, and Salomé Van Bunnen LL.M. ’24 was more than 7,000 miles away—in East Africa. But far from regretting missing a few of her final days in Cambridge, Salomé was in Tanzania celebrating putting into practice a semester of

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