PON Live! From Vision to Action: Remaking the World Through Social Entrepreneurship and Peacebuilding
The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present:
PON Live! Book Talk
From Vision to Action:
Remaking the World Through Social Entrepreneurship and Peacebuilding
A virtual talk with:
John Marks
Founder, Search for Common Ground
Monday, September 23, 2024
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET (US and Canada)
Free and open to the public.
Click to access the Zoom registration link.
The session will be recorded. Pending approval, we will post the recording on this page after the session.
About the talk:
Social entrepreneurs are people who launch ventures aimed at promoting positive change in their community and the world. Their bottom line is not financial profit, but the common good. Drawing on his extensive career, John Marks has written, From Vision to Action, a practitioner’s guide to the underlying principles of social entrepreneurship.
Marks’s book offers a master class in effective negotiation and conflict resolution. It builds on a core strategy of understanding differences and acting on commonalities using his own experiences creating real-life breakthroughs during his time leading Search for Common Ground the world’s largest peacebuilding nonprofit. Beginning with an improbable effort to promote cooperation between the CIA and the KGB, this book features examples that range from helping prevent genocide in Burundi to using children’s television to lessen ethnic tensions in Macedonia to creating a culture of mediation in Morocco. In this session, Marks will share key lessons, such as adapting to unexpected outcomes, communicating persuasive stories, and being incrementally transformational—or transformationally incremental. Bringing together compelling narratives and useful tools, From Vision to Action delivers practical guidance on building bridges and creating meaningful change.
This book is available for purchase from Amazon.com.
About the Speaker:
John Marks is the founder of the renowned peacebuilding nonprofit Search for Common Ground. Together with his wife Susan Collin Marks, they built the organization into a global force for peace, which was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018. When he stepped down as its president after thirty-two years, the organization had a staff of six hundred full-time employees and offices in thirty-five countries. He is now the founder and managing director of Confluence International and a visiting scholar in peacebuilding and social entrepreneurship at Leiden University. Marks is coauthor of the controversial New York Times best-seller The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence and the award-winning Search for the “Manchurian Candidate.” Marks also founded Common Ground Productions and has produced a TV series promoting nonviolent coexistence in twenty-five countries. In the words of PON co-founder and co-author of Getting to Yes William Ury, “no one has done more to advance the field of practical conflict resolution around the globe than John and Susan Marks.”
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