William Mitchell College of Law
Welcome to the Center for Negotiation and Justice. The Center is a collaboration between expert negotiation practitioners and leading scholars in conflict and dispute resolution. The Center’s mission is to explore, develop, and advance the connection between principled negotiation and social justice advocacy, combining these two critical disciplines into a focused study and practice using negotiation as a means of promoting social justice.
Conflict – both real and perceived – impacts nearly every level of human interaction. Nations argue over how to share essential resources. Small companies risk everything to enter into business deals with larger companies. Community organizations struggle to support and advocate for their constituents. Unequal power, ineffective communication, past history, and deep-rooted hostility can create enormous barriers to people coming together.
The purpose of the Center for Negotiation and Justice is to provide a framework for helping to break down these barriers. While many similar programs focus either on negotiation as a form of alternative dispute resolution or on social and community justice, the Center links the two for a dynamic approach that uses negotiation as a means of promoting social justice.
By taking a principled approach to negotiation, the Center is uniquely positioned to help stakeholders resolve conflict, empower individuals and organizations, build healthy relationships, and foster social and economic justice.
Center for Negotiation & Justice 875 Summit Avenue | St. Paul, MN 55104 | (651) 290-7507
William Mitchell College of Law 875 Summit Avenue | St. Paul, MN 55105 | 1-888-WMCL-LAW or (651) 227-9171
CNJ @wmitchell.edu