Education Projects
Government Training. INI trains government officials and representatives of civil society involved in highstakes conflict in the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia, China, and elsewhere.
INI/Harvard
Medical School Internship Program. INI has developed an "INI
Conflict Management Track" to the "Physicians in Community"
Program at Harvard Medical School. In the program, first year medical
students develop a summer internship project either domestically or
internationally. INI's track assists those students who wish to pursue
conflict management work as their internship project. The INI Conflict
Management Track consists of the INI Seminar Series described above,
additional training on negotiation, recommended reading, and faculty
mentoring. Students from HMS are pursuing summer internships in conflict management in Africa,
the Middle East, China, and India.
Educational Resources. INI faculty and staff are developing resources to help professors and trainers teach students how to use emotions constructively during a negotiation or conflict. Click here to access these materials, which are based on the ideas in Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate.
INI
Seminar Series on the Psychology of Conflict Management. INI has established a seminar series on the Psychology of Conflict Management
that involves distinguished practitioners and scholars in the field,
as well as students from the Harvard Medical School and Law School who
will be working in conflict management internships over the summer.
The purpose of the seminar series is to explore the psychology of conflict
management in order to equip students with skills and understandings
to improve their decision-making while working in the field on various
types of interventions.Click here to learn more or go back to projects.
Academic courses. INI faculty offer courses and lectures to students at Harvard and other
universities, as well as to the general public, educating them about
the multiple factors involved in conflict management. INI Director Daniel
Shapiro offers a course at Harvard Law School on how to use emotions
constructively during a negotiation. A focus is on the use of emotions
to improve relationships and cooperation between individuals and groups.Go back to projects.
Senior Executive
Seminar: Dealing with Emotions in Negotiation. Daniel Shapiro,
Director of INI, and Jamil Mahuad, former President of Ecuador, are
currently constructing a seminar for business and policy leaders to
help them deal more effectively with the emotional dimension of negotiation.Go back to projects.
Conflict Management Training in 25 Countries. With funding from the Soros Foundation, Dan Shapiro developed a conflict management curriculum to support the transition from a closed to open society in Eastern and Central Europe.That program now reaches close to one million people across the region. Shapiro maintains close contact with educators and mental health professionals in 25 countries across Eastern and Central Europe. Go back to projects.
