Negotiation, Identity and Justice: Pathways to Agreement
Date: Wednesday 10 April 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Venue: ART-25WWC-C120/121
Zoom link: https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/82519073926?pwd=V3Y2M0VuVzRWL3lmTStmanR1ZVZSZz09
Speaker: Dan Druckman (Professor Emeritus, George Mason University)
Moderator: Francesco Stolfi
Discipline: Politics & International Relations
Abstract
Dan Druckman’s recent book “Negotiation, Identity, and Justice: Pathways to Agreement” is the focus of this seminar. In the book, Dan discusses an unusual career in three parts: research institutes, consulting, and academia. In so doing he provides rare glimpses of behind the scenes experiences, making evident that there is more to a career than what appears in print. Highlighted in this career are four important research projects. One is about a meta-analysis of bargaining experiments on flexibility. Another is about the effectiveness of mediation by robots. A third discusses a very large project on the role of justice in peace agreements to end civil wars. And, a fourth is about the role of civil society in the peace process. Theoretical work on nationalism with Steve Wood will also be discussed. These projects illuminate the value of doing experiments and of large N comparative case studies for both knowledge accumulation and policy. Lessons learned from the findings and for students looking forward to social science careers will conclude the seminar, which will be followed by a Q & A session.
More on the book here.
Discounted prices on the book will be available for attendees.
Bio
Daniel Druckman is Professor Emeritus of Public and International Affairs at George Mason’s Schar School of Policy and Government and an Honorary Professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and at the University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia. Two of his books, Doing Research: Methods of Inquiry for Conflict Analysis (Sage, 2005) and, with Paul F. Diehl, Evaluating Peace Operations (Lynne Reinner, 2010) received the outstanding book award from the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM). He also received lifetime achievement and Rubin Theory to Practice awards from the IACM in 2003 and 2018 respectively and a lifetime achievement award from the Novancia Business School in Paris in 2016.