Organized by ESSEC IRÉNÉ and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, the international conference « New Trends in Negotiation Teaching: Toward a Trans-Atlantic Network » gathered almost 200 experts. In the course of the sessions, 57 papers were presented by 82 researchers and practitioners in negotiation. Coming from 35 different countries, presenters and participants turned what was originally made to be a Trans-Atlantic meeting into a world forum.

Some of the most distinguished academics-among whom Robert Mnookin (Harvard Law School), Michael Wheeler (Harvard Business School), William Zartman (Johns Hopkins University), Steve Goldberg (Northwestern) or Roy Lewicki (Ohio State University) in the United States-were joined by a new generation of researchers from France, Brazil, China, India, Germany, Belgium and other countries.

Pierre Tapie, general manager of ESSEC, concluded the conference which was organized by Alain Pekar Lempereur (ESSEC IRENE) and Melissa Manwaring (Harvard PON), in partnership with the Dispute Resolution Research Center at Northwestern University (USA), the Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France), the Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil), the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), the University of Tilburg (The Netherlands), the University of Oxford (UK), the ESSEC MS and the Harvard Club in France.

The CD-Rom gathering all the presenters' papers and biographies is available. In the next few weeks, you will be able to watch video clips from the conference from this website and consult documents looking back into some of its key moments and from now on you can have a look at a number of pictures.