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To advance the vision of a more peaceful world, Harvard INP conducts global research and educational initiatives to address the emotional and identity-based dimensions of conflict and negotiation.

Program Highlights

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Negotiating the Symbolic

Read the chapter by Shapiro and Liu in “Narratives of Mass Atrocity,” ed by Federman and Niezen, Cambridge Univ. Press

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Worldviews in Conflict

Iwry & Shapiro offer new paths forward (click for link to the Negotiation Journal)

Want to Teach Negotiation?

Click here for a free curriculum to teach students conflict resolution skills.

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Do You Dare Talk Politics?

Watch Prof Shapiro’s video viewed more than 500,000 times

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Beyond Partisanship: The Civic Mindset

A New Conceptual Model to Bridge the Divides

Can We Negotiate the Nonnegotiable?

Major publications by INP affiliates