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Last NameWeiss

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I am the Co-Founder of the Global Negotiation Initiative at Harvard University and have been in that capacity for 10 years. I am also currently the Managing Director of Abraham's Path Initiative (see www.abrahampath.org) that is seeking to create a long distance hiking route in the footsteps of Abraham as a way to bring his descendants together along the path. I did my undergraduate work at Syracuse University, my Masters at American University in DC, and my Ph.D, at ICAR at George Mason University. I live in Western Massachusetts and am married with three little daughters.

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Josh

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Weiss

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I am the Co-Founder of the Global Negotiation Initiative at Harvard University and have been in that capacity for 10 years. I am also currently the Managing Director of Abraham's Path Initiative (see www.abrahampath.org) that is seeking to create a long distance hiking route in the footsteps of Abraham as a way to bring his descendants together along the path.

I did my undergraduate work at Syracuse University, my Masters at American University in DC, and my Ph.D, at ICAR at George Mason University.

I live in Western Massachusetts and am married with three little daughters.

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Middle East

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Co-Founder, Global Negotiation Initiative and Managing Director, Abraham's Path Initiative

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http://www.negotiatorinyou.com www.negotiationtip.com

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11-15

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Conflict Mainstreaming, Conflict Resolution, Diplomacy

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Program Administration, Training

Josh Weiss Blog

The North Win and the Sun: Persuasion, Leadership and Negotiation
Posted: May 8, 2017

https://ethicsalarms.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/north-wind-and-the-sun-story-oil-painting.jpg Consider this Aesop’s fable: The Wind and the Sun were disputing which was stronger. Suddenly...
The role of confidence in leadership and negotiation
Posted: April 7, 2017

“Confidence is a gift, given to you by yourself. To have it costs nothing but to not have it comes with an immeasurable price tag.” Debbie Dickerson, Confidence is Your Game...
What is the connection between leadership approach and negotiation? Part 2: The Adaptive Leader
Posted: January 25, 2016

Last week we began our exploration of leadership approaches and their connection to negotiation by looking at the servant leadership approach. This week we continue that line of inquiry by analyzing...
What is the connection between leadership approach and negotiation? Part 1: The Servant Leader
Posted: January 19, 2016

I have recently been thinking more about different approaches and styles of leadership and how those intersect with approaches to negotiation. In this series of posts over the next few weeks I will...
Crossing the streams of Leadership and Negotiation
Posted: January 14, 2016

Crossing the streams... Egon: Don’t cross the streams.Peter: Why?Egon: It would be bad.Peter: I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean “bad”?Egon: Try to imagine all life as...

Josh Weiss Topics

New book on teaching negotiation and conflict handling for kids — Trouble at the Watering Hole
Posted by Josh Weiss on April 7, 2017

Trouble at the Watering Hole is a new negotiation and conflict resolution skills book for children ages 6 to 10. Trouble at the Watering Hole is a story about animals trying to share a water hole...

Josh Weiss Groups

Tourism and Peace
Sharing knowledge and experiences about influences of tourism on conflicts and/or peace building mea [...]
Abraham Path Initiative
The Abraham Path Initiative is an NGO seeking to inspire and support the emergence of the Abraham Pa [...]
Peacemakers Trust
Welcome to the Peacemakers Trust group! Peacemakers Trust is a Canadian nonprofit for research & [...]

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