Past Speakers and Events

Through the years, INP has hosted a wide range of practitioners, academics, and international leaders to discuss the roles of identity and emotions in negotiation and conflict situations. Examples include:

• Perspectives on Collective Violence: The Mindset of Evildoers and Traumatized Victims. This lecture panel provided participants with a broad look at violence from the vantage of perpetrators, victims, and those of subsequent generations affected by the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Speakers were Robert Jay Lifton, Judith Herman, and Joseph Albeck.

• The Negotiators: A Live NYPD Hostage Negotiation Demonstration. Featuring Lt. Jack Cambria, head of the NYPD Hostage Negotiation Unit, and Detectives Lydia Martinez and James Shanahan, the event shed light on how emotions are integral to the most high-pressure circumstances: the hostage negotiation.

• Conflict Management through the Lens of Psychopathology and Relational Psychology. This session looked at how better understand the relational dimension of negotiation, and how to approach conflict situations when people exhibit symptoms of psychopathology. Speakers included Bruce Cohen and Kimberlyn Leary.