Expanding Access to Negotiation Education for Less Privileged Communities: Opportunities for Teaching, Outreach, and Research

Abstract: The proposed roundtable aims to create community and facilitate information sharing among scholars and educators in negotiation and conflict management who work with less privileged communities or would like to do so. The roundtable session will feature a moderated conversation among educators who are leveraging their significant experience teaching negotiation as faculty in professional and executive education to provide training in negotiation and conflict management with less privileged communities. The format of the session will be interactive to provide opportunities for participants to share their own related experiences and engage in conversation with the moderator and panelists. The objectives of the moderated conversation among the panelists and ensuant discussion with all participants will be to catalyze information sharing and collaboration among IACM community members on teaching and community outreach and research with historically marginalized groups. The moderator and panelists will explain their complementary interests in and goals for the session. The moderator will guide the conversation to illuminate challenges and opportunities in this type of work, explain to participants how to access relevant teaching resources, and invite exchanges among participants on potential directions for future work (e.g., development and dissemination of teaching materials; potential institutional collaborations; potential research questions and opportunities).

Keywords: negotiation, training, historically marginalized groups, research, community outreach