Ohio State’s Program on Dispute Resolution is thrilled to invite you to the 2024 Lawrence Lecture on Dispute Resolution featuring Georgetown Law Professor Ariel Eckblad!  Register here: https://go.osu.edu/eckblad.

Scheduled for Tuesday September 17 (beginning at 12:10 eastern), Professor Eckblad will present “The Water We Swim In: Negotiating Power and Possibility”. Here is a brief description:

The rise of authoritarianism. The accelerating climate crisis. The on-going internecine and international conflict. These intersecting calamities seem to at once cleave existing fissures while highlighting the criticality of collective action. Key to understanding and repairing these fissures is the question of how resources — be they tangible (money, land, water) or intangible (power, access, recognition) — are distributed. Often, negotiation — back and forth communication with the goal of reaching an agreement — is presented as a means to fairly allocate resources without relying on violence or coercion. In this endeavor, a key and often underexplored query is that of equity. More specifically, how might more equitable negotiations processes and agreements, empower us to meaningfully address the cascade of crises we face?

Register here: https://go.osu.edu/eckblad.

Prior to joining Georgetown Law, Professor Eckblad held various positions in the U.S. government. Most recently, she was Deputy Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations where she launched and led the Department’s Negotiation Support Unit. Professor Eckblad holds a J.D. from Harvard Law, an M.S. in Diplomacy from the University of Oxford, and an M.S. in International Relations from the University of London. She has been a Marshall Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, and was the valedictorian of her class at Spelman College.

We look forward to seeing you in two weeks!