Internationally known conflict resolution expert and best-selling author William Ury will give a public talk on resolving conflicts peacefully on Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 1B50 on the University of Colorado at 麻豆影院 campus.
Ury, who co-founded Harvard University's Program on Negotiation where he currently directs the Global Negotiation Project, is the author of the book "The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes" and the five-million-copy best-seller "Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In."
CU-麻豆影院's Peace and Conflict Studies program is sponsoring Ury's free, public talk, according to Stanley Deetz, who directs the program. Ury's talk is titled "Getting to Yes in the Middle East: The Abraham Path Initiative."
"Bill Ury is an internationally recognized expert on peaceful conflict resolution and this is a special chance to hear him talk about conflict and specifically his peace-related work," Deetz said.
Over the last 30 years, Ury has served as a mediator in conflicts ranging from corporate mergers to wildcat strikes in a Kentucky coal mine to ethnic wars in the Middle East, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union. During the 1980s, he helped the United States and Soviet governments create nuclear crisis centers designed to avert an accidental nuclear war. He also worked with former President Jimmy Carter to co-found the International Negotiation Network, a nongovernmental body seeking to end civil wars around the world.
Ury also has taught negotiation tactics to tens of thousands of corporate executives, labor leaders, diplomats and military officers around the world. He helps organizations try to reach mutually profitable agreements with customers, suppliers, unions and joint-venture partners.
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