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Meeting at Cops’ Corner
In just one decade, Everett, Massachusetts, once a predominantly white city, has become the most racially and ethnically diverse in the commonwealth. Building communication between police officers and local youth is a priority for Chief of the Everett Police Department Steven A. Mazzie, who is white, as are 86 percent of his officers. Last fall…
Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinic Students Help Local Somali Youth Manage Conflict
Abdulkadir Hussein, founder of African Community Economic Development of New England (ACEDONE) came to the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) with a problem. Hussein had noticed an emerging issue in the Boston East African community—the growing divide between Somali-born parents and their American-raised children. For Somali parents, the stress of raising…
HNMCP project makes the NY Daily News
The Daily News interviewed Bob Bordone for an article on this semester’s project with NY Councilman Daniel Garodnick. Students will be assessing the ways in which the NYC Comptroller’s Office processes claims against the City, whether the City is spending the right amount of time litigating versus settling cases, determining whether the best processes are being…
Roger Fisher (1922-2012)
“Peace is not a piece of paper, but a way of dealing with conflict when it arises.” ~Roger Fisher “Today we mourn the loss of Professor Roger Fisher, the founder of the Program on Negotiation, who was inspiration for the work of our field, and for me personally in founding HNMCP. Roger was a…
An Appealing Design: Students devise an appeals process for the new Consumer Watchdog Agency
Last year, after Rory Van Loo ’07 left the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau implementation team to become a lecturer on law and assistant director of the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program, he asked his former colleagues how HLS students might assist the new agency. It had been created by Congress in 2010 largely thanks…
HNMCP students sow seeds of peace in the Middle East
This post originally appeared on Harvard Law School’s Clinical Blog. Tucked away in an idyllic corner of Maine is a summer camp that features many traditional American activities: singing around bonfires, flag raising ceremonies, Color Wars, and chilly dips in the lake. Less ordinary, however, are the daily dialogue sessions, where Israeli and Palestinian campers…
HNMCP Trains Israeli and Palestinian Youth
JERUSALEM |In partnership with the Harvard University Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program at Harvard Law School, Seeds of Peace offered 32 of its Palestinian and Israeli Peer Leaders (aged 16-17) a three-day training in basic mediation and negotiation. “It was a fascinating opportunity to learn how to overcome obstacles in the negotiation process and how…
Harvard Law Students visit Unity Neighborhood Justice Program in Chile
The fall 2011 semester project with the Ministry of Justice in Chile made news in Santiago when three students went down to do fieldwork. This past January, HNMCP students Leah Kang ’12, Teresa Napoli ’13, and Apoorva Patel ’13 traveled to Chile to investigate the Ministry of Justice’s neighborhood multi-door courthouse pilot program under the…
Students travel to Washington to present plan to close Guantanamo
This story first appeared on Harvard Law Today. A team of negotiators presented a plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, a goal President Obama outlined at the beginning of his presidency. But just as the president has faced opposition, so too did the members of this team. When one of them recommended…
Harvard Mediation Program Celebrates 30 Years of Students Resolving Conflicts
by Elaine McArdle After studying law and mediation in the People’s Republic of China post-college, David G. Seibel ’97 was eager to find the best training possible in alternative dispute resolution. He chose HLS in large part because of the Harvard Mediation Program (HMP), a Student Practice Organization which this year celebrates its 30th anniversary…
HNMCP receives the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution’s 2010 Award for Problem Solving in the Law School Curriculum
The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) selected the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) to be the recipient of its 2010 Problem Solving in the Law School Curriculum Award at its annual awards banquet on January 11, 2011 at the New York offices of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP. The clinic’s director…
Uncommon Loss, Common Bond: HLS Clinic Helps Teens Who Have Been Victimized by Acts of Violence
Mark Hutchinson’s father lost the use of his legs in a bombing in Northern Ireland. Caitlin Leavey was 10 years old when her father, a New York City fire lieutenant, died leading firefighters from Ladder 15 into the south tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. For these teens and 73 others…