Negotiating with Hamas

Robert H. Mnookin is the Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and for twenty-five years served as the Chair of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. He directs the Harvard Negotiation Research Project. A leading scholar in the field of conflict resolution, Professor Mnookin has applied his interdisciplinary approach to negotiation and conflict resolution to a remarkable range of problems; both public and private.
A renowned teacher and lecturer, Professor Mnookin has taught numerous workshops for corporations, governmental agencies and law firms throughout the world and trained many executives and professionals in negotiation and mediation skills. On behalf of the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, he designed and has taught annual workshops for intellectual property professionals. Professor Mnookin has served as a consultant to governments, international agencies, major corporations and law firms. As a neutral arbitrator or mediator, he has resolved numerous complex commercial disputes.
Professor Mnookin has written or edited ten books and numerous scholarly articles. His most recent books include Kissinger the Negotiator (with James K. Sebenius and R. Nicholas Burns); The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World (Public Affairs November 2018) and Bargaining with the Devil: When to Negotiate, When to Fight.

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Great interview!!!! Thanks!

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Thomas Schelling was a Harvard and RAND Corp. Game Theorist. A great guy - from the little I know about him.

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I'll tell you a short story about bats. There are only a few types of bats that eat blood - most of them like flowers and fruits. The university I went to was built on what was a sort of abandoned farm full of horses and hematophagous bats. When they constructing the buildings they soon planted a lot of trees that produced flowers and fruits that bats like - and that ended the hemetaphogous ones. Bats - both types - occupy the same breeding spaces and once food was plentiful for the vegetarian ones they simply outcompeted the hematophagous bats on the breeding spaces.

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Yitzhak Rabin was against that disengagement at the time. I'm not sure that's the same event the Prof. mentioned, though.