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I’m flipping the usual sequence this week and putting up this short announcement about an open-to-the public webinar hosted by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. It’s this Thursday, October 14, from noon to 1PM, Eastern Time. (Apologies. I just learned about the event today.)
The webinar features Brandeis Professor Mari Fitzduff who will discuss her new book, Our Brains at War: The Neuroscience of Conflict and Peacebuilding. You can register for the event here.
Given the state of the world, I expect this will be of interest to Jazz readers who want to understand why groups, political parties, and nations can be so contentious. Professor Fitzduff will focus on how instincts, emotions, and genetics, can smother logic, provoke societal conflicts, even trigger protracted wars.
I’m curious to learn whether those same factors underlie conflicts in the workplace, our neighborhoods, and within families. Understanding what drives conflicts is, I hope, the first step in resolving them.
P.S. Look for a regular length Jazz article on “Weighing Trade-offs in Negotiation” later this week.
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