Negotiation and Mediation

Full course description

In this elective, students will focus on negotiations and mediation skills. The elective will start with a lecture to explain the structure of the course and to introduce the topic of negotiation to them. In this lecture, they will already learn about the most important theories and strategies that can be used for negotiation and mediation in different contexts. After the lecture, they will read literature to prepare them to practice their negotiation skills. TrainTool will be used to practice these skills. We will use the Harvard principles of negotiation in this elective. In TrainTool, they will first practice the first two principles, after which they will have a group meeting in which we will do a role play focusing on these two principles. Then, they will again practice with Traintool, now focusing on the last two principles, and we will end the course with another role play in the group meeting.