Introduction
The Negotiation Lab
Spring Semester 2010
Negotiation Workshops
The Negotiation Lab of the Conflict Analysis Research Centre is offering free basic and advanced negotiation skills workshops to all MA, MBA, MSc, PhD and Post-Doc students on the Canterbury campus through the Transferable Skills Training Programme run by the Graduate School, though preference will be given to research only students.
The one-day, intensive workshops are taught by Samuel Passow using simulations and exercises developed by Harvard University. The workshops combine both theoretical and practical aspects of negotiation. The basic workshop is limited to 12 participants and the advanced workshop is limited to 7 participants who have previously taken the basic workshop. Places are reserved on a first-come-first served basis.
Over the last two years, 208 post-graduate students and staff participated in 16 basic negotiation skills workshops, 60 post-graduate students participated in 8 advanced negotiation skills workshops, and 38 people in our Executive Training programmers. Students represented 53 different countries and 24 different academic disciplines. In post-class evaluations, 98% said they liked the simulation-based method of teaching negotiation, 93% said the workshops would help in their personal development, while 97% of them said that they would recommend the workshops to others. The mission of the Graduate School headed by Prof. Diane Houston is to “lead and champion the strategic development of provision for graduate education and research at the University of Kent”.
The basic negotiation workshop for the Spring Semester will be offered on March 4th, and 12th. The advance negotiation workshop will be offered on March 16th and 26th. All the workshops will be held in Woolf Seminar Room One.
These four workshops are now fully subscribed. Students can sign up for future free workshops through Graduate School Transferable Skills Programme by clicking here or by calling Ms. Rhiannon Binns on (82)4785.
Click here for workshop details, learning outcomes and recommended readings
Samuel Passow, BA (TempleU/LSE), MPA (Harvard), PhD candidate (Kent); Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, is the Director of the Negotiation Lab as well as Head of Consulting Services and Executive Training at the Conflict Analysis Research Centre in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. He is also a Visiting Senior Lecturer in Negotiation at Canterbury Christ Church University in the Division for Law and Dispute Resolution in Department of Law and Criminal Justice Studies. He is an accredited UK mediator (CEDR, ADR Group, Regents College School of Psychotherapy & Counselling) and works at the Canterbury Christ Church Mediation Clinic. Mr. Passow previously studied and worked at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government (1995-1997); was a member of the teaching faculties of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) in London and the ADR Group in Bristol, the leading mediation NGOs in the UK (1999-2003) and was a visiting lecturer in Advanced Negotiation Analysis at the ADR Institute of the University of Amsterdam Law School (2001-2006).
CARC Consultancy & Pilgrims to start a second year of negotiation courses for business executives and government officials
CARC Consultancy is working with Pilgrims,Canterbury's leading international training and development firm, offering negotiation courses in 2010 to Human Recourse Executives from the top 100 continental European companies. In March and December 20009, the Negotiation Lab trained 20 North Korean diplomats in Canterbury as part of a cultural programme sponsored by the British Government. The Diplomats were from the North Korean Foreign Ministry, the State Committee for Coordinating Translation Terminology and the Committee for Cultural Relationships with Foreign Countries. Last year, the Negotiation Lab also worked with Pilgrim's to train Border and Customs officials from Turkey.
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Further Information
CARC co-hosts international conference on Conflict and Complexity
CARC Director Prof. Hugh Miall will open the second international conference on "Conflict and Complexity" to be held on the Canterbury campus September 7th to 9th 2009. The conference will explore how contemporary conflicts emerge out of complex global conditions, blurring the traditional boundaries between the intra-state and inter-state. The conference is co-hosted with the Conflict Research Society, the prime interdisciplinary forum in the UK linking professionals and academics concerned with co-operation and conflict and provides a meeting point for sharing their work.
Click here to read the provisional programme for the 2009 conference.
Click here to read the 2008 conference papers.
CARC Academic Research Projects
Dr Anne Hammerstad, has been awarded a three year £204,000 grant from the UK Economic and Social Research Council to study the securitisation of refugees in South Africa and the United Kingdom. The grant includes provision for an ESRC-funded PhD student.
Click here to learn about other CARC research projects
Protest and Privilege
CARC Letter to the Editor in the Financial Times by Samuel Passow on 8 June 2009 offers new insight into the protests which took place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing 20 years ago. Click here to read.
UN expands use of training film written and produced by the CARC Consultancy
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has now expanded its use of the training film on its Business Linkage Programme that the CARC Consultancy produced for it in April 2008 for the UNCTAD XII quadrennial conference in Accra, Ghana. Donor nations who were shown the film funded the expansion of the successful pilot programme in Uganda to new permanent programmes in Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia. The film was shown on the national TV stations in the four countries.Click to view video»
CARC Consultancy commissioned to develop
Crisis Management Training Programme
The CARC Consultancy has been commissioned by Invensys, the UK-based global technology and controls group focusing upon industrial automation, rail transportation and controls; to write simulations and a training programme for their crisis management team. The £65,000 project involves research in the United States, China, Singapore, India, Holland and Spain. The assignment developed from the Corporate Diplomacy course CARC Executive Training ran with Kent Business School in April 2009. The project is managed by Samuel Passow. Invensys is an FTSE100 firm.