Negotiation Task Force

Scholar-Entrepreneur Initiative

The NTF promotes innovative solutions to contemporary Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security challenges by creating spaces for cross-cultural negotiation research, training, and strategic analysis. We pioneer new models for high-impact knowledge dissemination, train practitioners in advanced negotiation skills, and build long-term conflict management capacity.

Negotiation Task Force

The Negotiation Task Force (NTF) hosts the Red Horizon crisis exercise for senior leaders, trains the next generation of security experts at the Arms Control Negotiation Academy (ACONA), creates immersive negotiation simulations, and disseminates knowledge through negotiation boot camps.

  • Are you a student interested in international affairs or negotiation? Become an NTF Research Assistant or Case Writer!
  • Are you a scholar who focuses on security issues in Eurasia? Join our international network of experts!
  • Are you a professional interested in sharpening your negotiating skills? Apply for the Red Horizon Executive Education program!

Email us at ntf@fas.harvard.edu or call the NTF office at +1 (617) 496 2180 to get in touch. To stay up to date with all things NTF, sign up for the NTF Insider today, and get the latest developments delivered to your inbox!

NTF Activities

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Negotiation Exercises

Whether you are looking to augment your team's negotiation skills or teaching conflict management to students, we have exercises to meet your needs!

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Red Horizon

Emerge as a leader who can turn chaos to their advantage from the three-day Red Horizon Executive Education workshop.

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Arms Control Negotiation Academy (ACONA)

ACONA is a 12-month high-level professional development program for a competitively selected cohort of rising international security experts and practitioners. 

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The Eurasia Deal: Dealmaking in Complex Environments

“The Eurasia Deal: Dealmaking in Complex Environments” is an advanced negotiation Executive Education workshop that features an immersive multiparty negotiation exercise.

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Successful Tactics of Twilight Negotiators

“Twilight diplomats” tend to make or break international negotiations, despite rarely garnering the acclaim of their more public-facing counterparts, write members of the Negotiation Task Force.

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Q&A: ACONA Fellow Brynja Óskarsdóttir

Strategic communications expert delves into the difficulty of addressing nuclear risk reduction among the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

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George Shultz and Open Doors 

Open doors, however difficult to accept, have facilitated progress that was previously inconceivable, writes NTF Fellow Danny Stoian.

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Related Events

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Past Event

ACONA Conference Reykjavík

The Arms Control Negotiation Academy is pleased to hold ACONA Conference Reykjavik in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 14, 2022.

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Past Event

RED HORIZON: Force and Diplomacy in Eurasia

Sharpen your negotiation skills, address geopolitical crises, and emerge as a leader who can turn chaos to their advantage.

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Past Event

Lessons from International Security Force Assistance in Afghanistan: A Negotiation Exercise

Join the Negotiation Task Force on Friday, October 15, for "Lessons from international security force assistance in Afghanistan: A negotiation exercise."

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