Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
The Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School welcomes students from across the Boston area who are interested in negotiation, mediation, and conflict management. Advancing issues of negotiation is central to our mission of helping individuals become more effective leaders. That’s why we offer students access to expert insights, internship opportunities, funding for research, and more.
EXPLORE OUR STUDENT RESOURCES
INSIGHTS FROM WORLD-RENOWNED EXPERTS
We host various events throughout the year, including conversations with world leaders, film series, book discussions, and seminars on current negotiation and mediation tactics employed around the globe. For details about upcoming events, click here.
Grant and Fellowship Application Due Dates:
PON Next Generation Grant – April 8, 2025
FUNDING FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH
PON provides fellowship and grant opportunities to help qualified individuals pursue academic research and projects in the field of negotiation.
Graduate Research Fellowships
Graduate Research Fellowships are designed to encourage young scholars from the social sciences and professional disciplines to pursue theoretical, empirical, and/or applied research in negotiation and dispute resolution. Each fellow receives a $42,000 stipend for one year of dissertation research and writing in negotiation and related topics in alternative dispute resolution. The fellowship also provides full access to PON facilities and Harvard libraries.
For list of past awardees and application process, click here.
Summer Fellowships
Summer fellowship grants focus on the connection between scholarship and practice in negotiation and dispute resolution by supporting students interested in exploring career paths, either professional or academic. Summer fellowships provide students at Harvard University, MIT, Tufts University, and other Boston-area schools with up to $3,500 for internships or summer research projects in negotiation and dispute resolution in partnership with public, nonprofit, or academic organizations..
For list of past awardees and application process, click here.
Next Generation Grants
Next Generation Grants support research in negotiation and conflict resolution by nontenured faculty and doctoral students. Faculty and students from any school or department within PON’s interuniversity consortium (Harvard, MIT, Tufts) may apply. Postdoctoral students with formal affiliations to Harvard or one of our consortium schools are also welcome to apply. Doctoral student grants are limited to $5,000; nontenured, tenure-track faculty grants are limited to $10,000.
For list of past awardees and application process, click here.
Graduate Student Grants
Our Student Grants program supports cutting-edge research projects in the field of negotiation and conflict resolution at the graduate level. Grants are awarded for specific research projects in amounts of up to $1,000. Students from any Boston-area school may apply.
For list of past awardees and application process, click here.
COURSES
Harvard Law School Negotiation and Mediation Programs
Harvard Law School offers a number of negotiation and mediation opportunities in addition to the offerings at PON:
Introductory Theory (ConRes 623)
McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies
FALL 2013
Instructors:
TBD
This course examines the theories and assumptions underpinning the practice of negotiation and mediation. It identifies the major schools of thought that influence models in practice and shape research agendas. It examines theories critically, with three aims-uncovering implicit assumptions of practice, testing those assumptions against empirical … Read Introductory Theory 
Negotiation (ConRes 621)
McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies
FALL 2013
Instructor:
David Matz
617-287-7489
www.disres.umb.edu
Negotiation is the bedrock skill in this field. The course addresses the development of negotiation techniques and fosters student knowledge of the substantial body of negotiation theory that is now available. (Wednesday 5:30 p.m.-8:15 p.m.) … Read Negotiation
Conflict Management: Strategies, Tactics, and Behavior (MMG747)
CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
FALL 2013
Instructor:
Martha Belden
This course explores different conflict management styles and situational considerations available to the individual that impact negotiations. It introduces theories and strategies that characterize the competitive bargaining styles and evaluates the consequences of using each. The course also explores planning, communication, perception, … Learn More About This Program
Mediation in the Workplace (MMG 758)
CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
SUMMER
Instructor:
Moshe Cohen
800-877-4723 X0163
Workplace mediation supplements or replaces institutional conflict resolution processes in order to increase job satisfaction, boost productivity, reduce employee turnover and decrease the chance of legal action. The course is designed to give the students the theory and skills necessary to begin to … Read Mediation in the Workplace
The Manager as Negotiator (MMG746)
CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
FALL 2013
Instructors:
Martha Belden
Effective managers must be able to deal successfully with limitedresources, divergent interests of people, and organizational conflict.This course improves skills in negotiation and joint decision-making that students can apply immediately. Emphasis is on integrative bargaining and problem-solving. Students learn the theory and tactics for … Read The Manager as Negotiator
Seminar: Managing Ethnic Conflict (Pol 127B1)
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY PEACE, CONFLICT, and COEXISTENCE STUDIES
Not currently offered
Instructor:
Steven L. Burg
A comparative study of the sources and character of interethnic conflict, with emphasis on the processes by which groups become politicized, and the stragies and techniques for managing conflict in a democratic systems. … Read Seminar: Managing Ethnic Conflict
Advanced Workshop in Multi-Party Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (MLD 230)
KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT
WINTER 2013
Instructor:
Brian Mandell
617-495-9123
This intensive skill-building workshop on multiparty negotiation and conflict resolution (NCR) aims to help participants manage complex multi-stakeholder negotiations; mediate public disputes; design consensus-building procedures; examine cross-cultural differences and ethical dilemmas; and sustain cooperative relationships. The emphasis is on the NCR … Learn More About This Program
Culture, Negotiation, and Responding to Conflict
LESLEY UNIVERSITY (GINTC 6004)
FALL 2013
Instructor:
Jay E. Jones
Intercultural Relations Program
617-349-8367
Explores the concepts and develops the skills of negotiation and mediation central to the effective resolution of situation-specific intercultural conflict. (Thursday 4:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m.) … Read Culture, Negotiation, and Responding to Conflict
Coexistence: The Arts of Building Peace
BRANDEIS PEACE, CONFLICT, AND COEXISTENCE STUDIES
Spring 2015
Tuesday 2:00-4:50 pm
Instructor:
Cynthia Cohen
781-736-2133
How can music, theatre, poetry, literature, and visual arts contribute to community development, coexistence, and non-violent social change? In the aftermath of violence, how can artists help communities reconcile? Students explore these questions through interviews, case studies, and projects. (Fall: Tuesday … Read Coexistence: The Arts of Building Peace
Managing Diversity
BOSTON COLLEGE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT (MB 137)
Not currently offered
Instructor:
Judith Clair
Organizational Studies Department
Fulton 433
617-552-0451
This course explores the topic of multicultural diversity and differences in organizations. The course will provide students with opportunities to expand their knowledge about diversity within the context of organizations. It will also provide them with opportunities to learn about how … Read Managing Diversity
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