Harvard PON & ESSEC Irene conference
The Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School and the Institute for Research and Education on Negotiation in Europe (IRENE) at ESSEC Business School are delighted to present a special conference, New Trends in Negotiation Teaching: Toward a Trans-Atlantic Network. The conference will be held on Monday and Tuesday, November 14-15, 2005, at ESSEC Business School's Cergy campus. The conference has two objectives: first, to facilitate sharing of experiences and ideas regarding innovative approaches to teaching negotiation; and second, to develop a trans-Atlantic professional network of negotiation teachers and trainers. The conference will offer a combination of plenary sessions, concurrent topical sessions, and roundtable discussions. [ Conference website ]

Mediation in the former Yugoslavia
On the basis of teaching common to ESSEC and Harvard students, during which the two groups met in Paris, a research project on mediation in Bosnia was set up and then extended to all mediations in the former Yugoslavia.

This example provides a further illustration of the synergy between teaching and negotiation research. The same problem was submitted to the two groups of students who, subsequent to their meeting in Paris, worked in parallel, under the direction of Kalypso Nicolaidis at Harvard and Alain Pekar Lempereur at ESSEC. Important guests participated in the seminar (General Heinrich and Ambassador Wynaendts, among others) shared their field expertise with participants. Such a package was as enriching for the participants as for the teacher-researchers who managed the seminar.