By Tom LoBianco
The “Why It Worked” initiative led by CPL’s Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Collaboratory (NCRC) has spent years working on the seemingly impossible: How do you find peace in decades-old conflicts? How do parties come together for agreeable and lasting settlements to years of bloodshed and woe, and move forward with confidence and stability?
NCRC Director Monica Giannone spoke with CPL on the globe-spanning efforts to identify the central elements of lasting peace, the Collaboratory’s signature “Propeller” framework for replicating successful negotiations and the lessons from Northern Ireland of how even a single small business owner can “propel peace”.
Giannone and Professor Brian Mandell, Faculty Chair and Senior Lecturer in Negotiation and Public Policy, founded NCRC with the goal of bringing new ideas related to negotiation and conflict resolution to the HKS community and to public leaders and organizations around the world.