Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Larry
Susskind
Larry Susskind, a professor of urban and environmental planning at MIT, is one of America’s most experienced public and environmental dispute mediators and a leading figure in the dispute resolution field. He has mediated more than 50 complex disputes related to the siting of controversial facilities, the setting of public health and safety standards, the formulation and implementation of development plans and projects, and conflicts among racial and ethnic groups.
He is the founder of the Consensus Building Institute (CBI), a nonprofit that provides mediation and negotiation services around the world, and is one of the founders and Vice Chair of the interuniversity Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School. He directs MIT’s Science Impact Collaborative, which focuses on transboundary water disputes, cybersecurity for critical urban infrastructure, the water shut-off crisis in older American cities and entrepreneurial negotiation. He manages the Teaching Negotiation Resource Center (TNRC) at PON, where he has developed almost 100 simulations that are used to teach negotiation, dispute resolution, and consensus building.
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