Life can’t be just work, and brain needs some time out too. Here in Bologna, it feels a bit like “we work hard, so we party hard,” and on Wednesday afternoon, a bunch of us [...]
Today, our schedule started with the last set of negotiation training sessions with our hono(u)rary guests, Mark Young (from the Harvard Program on Negotiation Trainer) and Bjorn Hofmann (from the UN Office for the Coordination [...]
We wrapped up the negotiation training with Mark Yong and Björn Hoffman today. They've provided us with some good tools and things to keep in mind in negotiations. When some of us were wandering around [...]
In any given society, there are several key factors that bring about conflict. Some of these factors include, Poor Leadership and Misuse of Power, Weak Justice Systems, Identity based divisions and lack of shares national [...]
Today was the second day in our three day training on Negotiating Successfully in an International Context. In the morning we built upon the underlying principles and concepts of negotiation learned the previous day, and [...]
The last two days have been filled with exercises and discussions aimed at developing and refining our skills in negotiation, both within our ‘home’ teams (negotiation teams) as we strategized for the negotiation simulations and [...]
Some refer to it as the act of getting to mutually beneficial agreements, of promoting peaceful settlements or of even preventing the escalation of conflict, damage and lose-lose results. On Monday, June 27, we the [...]
This week we have been introduced to the practical application of negotiation within applied contexts. As for myself, I was very much excited to not only learn about such practices, but also intrigued about the [...]
Today commemorates the final academic day of the first week here at the Bologna Peace and Security Symposium. It is a day of celebration and personal reflection about the experiences we’ve had so far, and [...]
On 25 June Klaas Glenewinkel CEO of the Media in Cooperation and Transition has spoken on the media developments in Iraq and Sudan but because I am more familiar with Iraq I will write on this part of his presentation. In [...]