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Harvard Negotiation Project
Founded in 1979, the Harvard Negotiation Project's mission is to improve the theory, teaching, and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution, so that people can deal more constructively with conflicts ranging from the interpersonal to the international. The Project, or HNP as it is commonly known, inspired many of the organizations that together created the Program on Negotiation consortium in 1983.
HNP is results-oriented. The work of faculty, staff, and students associated with HNP routinely moves back and forth between the worlds of theory and practice to develop ideas that practitioners find useful and scholars find sound. Its courses continually explore better methods for encouraging habits of mind and discourse that promote constructive problem-solving.
HNP's activities can be categorized under four headings:
• Theory-building;
• Education and training;
• Real-world intervention; and
• Written materials for practitioners, including the public at large.
These activities are synergistic. Theory is developed out of successful intervention efforts, while obstacles highlight areas for future work. Theory is tested and refined in trying to teach others the skills to achieve similar results. Teaching also hones facilitation skills and techniques that prove useful in the field, while fieldwork makes teaching more concrete and credible. Ideas and tools that have been tested, refined, and clarified by successful interventions and teaching are then captured and disseminated through publications, which in turn stimulate new opportunities and useful feedback.
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Mercy Corps Civil Society and Conflict Management Group
Cambridge-based Conflict Management Group (CMG), a 501 (c)(3) think tank with close ties to Harvard University attained a reputation for innovative peace-building work in troubled regions worldwide. CMG was founded in 1984 by Roger Fisher, whose renowned book Getting to Yes established an influential model for resolving conflict through peaceful means. An intellectual leader in conflict resolution with a track record of taking on the toughest peace challenges, CMG's work had included:
• Negotiation and leadership trainings in ethnically tense areas of the former Soviet Union and newly independent states
• Training and mediation in South Africa, including process design work with the lead negotiator for the Government and lead negotiator for the ANC in Constitutional negotiations
• Developing foreign relations and trade relations policies between South and North Korea
• Facilitating discussions to resolve an Ecuador-Peru border dispute
In 2004, CMG merged with Mercy Corps, a Portland-based 501(c)(3) organization that alleviates suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided assistance to people in 81 nations. It is known nationally and internationally for its quick-response, high-impact programs, which include projects in emergency relief, sustainable community development and civil society initiatives. Mercy Corps is committed to long-term community-based efforts that help people help themselves. With headquarters in the United States and Scotland, Mercy Corps' international family of humanitarian agencies reaches seven million people each year. Mercy Corps works in the midst of the world's most difficult conflicts and disasters to unleash the potential of people who can win against impossible odds. The total annual budget for Mercy Corps is $154,270,477.
The merger has increased the reach and impact of the organizations by combining CMG's well established relationships with political leadership and advisors with Mercy Corps' grassroots infrastructure. MC CMG continues to be dedicated to improving the methods of negotiation, conflict management, inter-ethnic, inter-faith, and cooperative decision making as applied to issues of public concern internationally. MC CMG offers training, facilitation, and advisory services designed to spread interest-based negotiation tools for building peace and managing conflict around the world.
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Sea-Change Partners
Sea-Change Partners exists as a resource for strategic assistance, practical advice, capacity-building, and the enhancement of important practical skills. In areas of strategic concern, Sea-Change Partners provides assistance and advice such as: negotiation, crises, conflict, integrity, change, security, and communication. Sea-Change Partners helps to improve the professional skills of executives, managers, and employees of organizations in both the public and private sector through proven, useful training, based on needs and experience.
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The United States Institute of Peace
The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress. Its goals are to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and democratic transformations, and increase peacebuilding capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide. The Institute does this by empowering others with knowledge, skills, and resources, as well as by its direct involvement in peacebuilding efforts around the globe.
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Vantage Partners
With a direct heritage from the Harvard Negotiation Project and the best-selling Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, Vantage Partners provides companies with the processes, tools, skill-building and technology necessary to build world-class negotiation and relationship management capabilities. By implementing standard, firm-wide approaches, our clients are better able to negotiate and manage their key alliance, supplier, outsourcing, customer and internal relationships.
Vantage works with the world's leading global companies in many industries, including information technology, financial services, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, entertainment, petroleum and minerals, professional services, and manufacturing.
Vantage Partners brings established relationship management techniques to corporations worldwide. Based on our work and affiliation with the Harvard Negotiation Project, Vantage Partners is a recognized world leader in helping companies build lasting capabilities in the areas of negotiation and relationship management.
As companies grow, they are consistently faced with the difficult task of maintaining a complex web of critical relationships. Research shows that between 50 and 70 percent of business relationships fail to meet their objectives, and that the primary cause of failure is poor or damaged working relationships between partners. Businesses have learned that, to survive, they must successfully leverage the value of multiple key constituents, including internal business units and key customers, strategic partners, competitors and suppliers. Vantage Partners helps clients put in place the infrastructure required to transform negotiation and relationship management tactics into standard business processes, thereby improving the value of their critical business relationships.
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Vienna Partners
Vienna Partners Management Consulting Company, was founded in 2002 and has been working side-by side with Prof. Roger Fisher at the Harvard Negotiation Project for several years. Embedded in an international network, Vienna Partners focuses geographically on German-speaking countries in Central - and Southeastern Europe as well as in the Middle East.
The goal of Vienna Partners is to strengthen the skills of leaders and their teams in negotiations, for cross-cultural or new cooperation and for managing change processes. Vienna Partners believes that good negotiation, value-creating cooperation and dealing with conflict constructively require not only talent but skills that - to a larger extent - can be learned and improved systematically. Vienna Partners focusses in the areas of: international negotiations, business mediation, process facilitation, organizational change and management development
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