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 of negotiation necessary for the urgent local change required in most conflict situations.
“It was a pleasure moderating the conversation with Mark Freeman,” says Dicker, “as he introduced a framework for “fast-track negotiations,” stepping away from a current model of increasingly comprehensive and broadly inclusive negotiations and instead focusing on reaching quick, even partial agreements between key parties.”
You can watch this conversation, courtesy of the Program on Negotiation, at https://www.pon.harvard.edu/events/pon-live-fisher-speaker-series-fast-track-negotiation/.
Since the event in the fall, Freeman and the Institute for Integrated Transitions have released a white paper detailing their model: https://ifit-transitions.org/blog/announcing-fast-track-negotiation-a-white-paper/“
