Dear friends and colleagues, Our semester concluded on Friday, and as we shift from the rhythm of the fall into December, I am reflecting on why we are here. As many of you know, my father passed away this summer after a challenging illness. As a result, I have spent a lot of time this […]

Dear friends and colleagues, As the United States engages a deeply consequential election, one thing I know for certain is that, whatever the final tally shows, we have a long road ahead of us. The election, while vitally important, can only do so much. It can tell us who will sit in the Oval Office,

Dearest friends and colleagues,   These past few months have held so much pain, loss, and heartache; and at the same time, unmistakable moments of tenderness, hope, and progress. These moments have brought home, once again, how inextricably interconnected we are—how our individual choices have a direct impact on the health and wellbeing of others. As

Dear friends, This past June, our HNMCP team held our annual staff retreat at a center near Walden Pond, in Concord, MA, where Henry David Thoreau lived and wrote in the nearby woods for two years. In reflecting on why he left these woods, Thoreau wrote, “I left the woods for as good a reason as

This past year brought a flurry of activity and excitement for members of Harvard Law School Negotiators, led by Brady Bender ’18, Yoonie Han ’18, Brayden Koslowsky ’19, Michael Kucharski ’19, and Jacob Stoller ’18. HLS Negotiators, a student practice organization, provides students with opportunities to refine their skills in alternative dispute resolution. By partnering

We are so excited to announce that Rachel A. Viscomi ’01 has been named as the Director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) and appointed Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. “I am honored to join such a distinguished and inspiring faculty and grateful to work alongside such talented staff, students, and colleagues,”

Our Spring semester clinical projects allowed us to think about dispute systems design in a variety of contexts and settings and to tailor recommendations to meet the needs of a wide variety of stakeholders—from an environmental watchdog to drug court teams; from schools in the midst of entrenched conflict to student, staff, and faculty on

What do you get when you combine a diverse group of people, trained student facilitators, and a willingness to engage around polarizing civic issues over the course of a semester? HNMCP mixed those ingredients and came up with Let’s Disagree, a dialogue series offered as part of HNMCP’s Political Dialogue Initiative. Let’s Disagree incorporated key

By Ana Carolina Viana Riella, Outreach & Case Coordinator, Harvard Mediation Program Last fall I returned to my home country of Brazil to speak at the XXIII Brazilian Bar Association National Conference in São Paulo about my experience as Outreach & Case Coordinator at the Harvard Mediation Program. Over 20,000 people attended, making it the