Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.
Semester: 2011 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: David Weller, Claire Hankin, Zach Mason
ABB is a global provider of power and automation technologies that enables utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. ABB operates in approximately 100 countries and employs approximately 124,000 people worldwide. Engineering companies like ABB often deliver technically complex products, systems and services to its customers. Claims, which are common for… More
African Community and Economic Development of New England (ACEDONE)
Semester: 2012 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Curriculum Development & Delivery, Facilitated Dialogue
Students: Michael Robertson and Andrew Sullivan
ACEDONE was founded in 2002 to provide support to Boston’s East African community and families as they integrate into American society. Tensions between old world and new can exacerbate the already challenging teen/parent relationship. ACEDONE has enlisted HNMCP to report on the underlying causes of such tensions in the Somali community, and to recommend techniques and develop a curriculum for effective conflict management.… More
American Friends Service Committee
Semester: 2008 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Conflict Resolution Advice
Students: Zeke Reich & Jay Osha
Conduct a conflict analysis with recommendation… More
American Friends Service Committee
Semester: 2008 Spring
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Conflict Resolution Advice, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Jim Kreen & Lande Spottswood
Develop a management model that honors institutional culture… More
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Semester: 2013 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Dispute System Design, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Sarah Paige, Michelle Goldring, and John Miller
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading federal agency implementing disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion activities in the United States and abroad. HNMCP will conduct a rigorous assessment of, and provide recommendations for, strengthening CDC’s conflict prevention and management infrastructure.… More
City of Boston Department of Neighborhood Development’s Boston Home Center Division
Semester: 2015 Spring
Project Type: Conflict Analysis
Students: Kelly Knight and Jason Kramer
The Boston Home Center (BHC), a division of the City of Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development, helps Boston residents purchase, improve, and keep their homes. The BHC is regularly contacted by small, deed-restricted affordable condo associations around a variety of internal conflicts. HNMCP students will assess existing conflict management systems, explore current association conflicts, and develop a system, which may include a protocol, training guide, and/or training, to address these conflicts.… More
Consumer Finance Protection Bureau
Semester: 2011 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Dispute System Design
Students: Jeff Monhait, Lizzie Grosso, Ryan Blodgett
The central mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is to make markets for consumer financial products and services work for Americans—whether they are applying for a mortgage, choosing among credit cards, or using any number of other consumer financial products. The CFPB will be supervising financial institutions to help ensure that consumer financial… More
Cornerstone Village CoHousing
Semester: 2011 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Dispute System Design, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: David Newman, Joel Knopf
Cornerstone Village Cohousing is an intentional residential community of 32 households in North Cambridge in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhood. With the acknowledgement that conflict is an inevitable part of working and living together, a plan for a conflict resolution committee was written into the bylaws, but… More
Dirección de Gestión y Modernización de la Justicia, Ministerio de Justicia, Chile (DGM)
Semester: 2011 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Dispute System Evaluation, Mediation
Students: Leah Kang, Apoorva Patel, Teresa Napoli
The Dirección de Gestión y Modernización de la Justicia (DGM) is an arm of the Ministry of Justice in Chile. Its main functions are to integrate a modern and managerial vision of justice reform and to evaluate, coordinate, implement, and monitor those reforms undertaken by the Ministry. In response to a perception that wide sectors… More
First Unitarian Society in Newton
Semester: 2011 Spring
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Conflict Resolution Advice, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Kate Van Akin & Rose Yan
This project will partner HNMCP students with a local Unitarian Universalist congregation to design a new conflict management system for the congregation. The First Unitarian Society in Newton (FUSN) has a proud history of serving the spiritual needs of approximately 600 individuals in Newton, MA. Despite FUSN’s emphasis on creating a spiritually nurturing and socially… More
Mercy Corps
Semester: 2007 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Conflict Resolution Advice
Students: Amy Gordon & Tina Rad
Evaluate the best practices for international land disputes… More
National Forest Foundation
Semester: 2016 Spring
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Melissa Freeman and Benjamin Goldman
Uniting concerned communities, organizations and individuals, the NFF engages Americans in community-based and national programs that promote the health and public enjoyment of the 193-million-acre National Forest System, as well as administering private gifts of funds and land for the benefit of the National Forests Over the past two decades, small groups of people with… More
North Shore Medical Center/Union Hospital
Semester: 2008 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Brian Friedman & Stephanie Singer
Conduct a stakeholder/conflict assessment for hospital patients… More
Paulist Center
Semester: 2006 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Analysis
Students: Ashley Harris, Jennifer Reynolds, and Brad Rosen
Conduct a conflict assessment of the Boston Archdiocese… More
Perkins School For The Blind
Semester: 2016 Spring
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Conflict Resolution Advice
Students: Amy Woolfson and Martina Radney
Perkins is an organization committed to improving the lives of people with blindness and deafblindness all around the world. The organization is driven by a team of experts and supported by a community committed to fulfilling this core mission. Over the last year and a half, Perkins has undergone some significant changes to the leadership… More
Power, Protest, and Political Change
Semester: 2020 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Conflict Resolution Advice
Students: Brooke Davies and Daniel Oyolu
This project was developed by two students who have already taken the Dispute Systems Design Clinic and are engaging in an advanced clinical project. The students will explore the relationship between power and negotiation, particularly through the lens of how people with limited individual power organize and build a movement for political change.… More
Public International Law & Policy Group
Semester: 2017 Spring
Project Type: Conflict Analysis
Students: Christina Care, Michael Trujillo, & Pirita Virtanen
The Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG), a 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, operates as a non-profit, global pro bono law firm with a proven record of providing expert guidance to parties engaged in the peace process. PILPG has engaged HNMCP to create a conflict-analysis framework that will allow PILPG and its clients to… More
Renmin University Law School
Semester: 2014 Spring
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Consensus Building Effort, Stakeholder Assessment, Strategic Negotiation Advice
Students: Alyssa Colbert, Mark Johnson
HNMCP, Harvard Project on Disability, and the Renmin University Disability Law Clinic in Beijing continue a relationship that began in the spring of 2012. In this current project, the HNMCP team will examine how stakeholders involved in the education of students with disabilities can better manage disputes in this area and problem solve around specific issues related to education access. They will conduct a stakeholder assessment and conflict analysis, leading to the development of a consensus building curriculum and report.
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Sudbury Clergy Association
Semester: 2015 Spring
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Jiayun Ho and Seanan Fong
The Sudbury Clergy Association is enlisting the help of HNMCP to develop a kinder, gentler protocol for engaging at Town Meetings, in town government, and in the schools for the sake of the community’s best interests. Students will conduct a stakeholder assessment of town employees, elected officials, and residents, identify critical areas of disagreement, and propose next steps.… More
Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office
Semester: 2021 Fall
Project Type: Conflict Analysis, Stakeholder Assessment
Students: Fernanda Teodoro and Marlon Becerra
The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office (SCDAO), led by DA Rachael Rollins, serves the cities and towns of Boston, Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop, Massachusetts. With approximately 300 employees, including about 150 lawyers, it is among the largest and busiest district attorney’s offices in New England. SCDAO is deeply committed to principles of equity, fairness, openness,… More