Research

Project status: active

NTF involvement: research support and coordination of research teams (since 2019)

Description: Regional conflicts are becoming increasingly complex and have repercussions on other continents. The NTF provides innovative analytical tools to decode the dynamics that shape regional conflict systems. NTF experts are pioneers in the field of negotiation systems research and systemic simulation design methods. These concepts integrate disruptions, unpredictability, and turbulence in conflict analysis scholarship as well as in immersive learning environments.

Publications:

• Bell, Arvid, and Dana Wolf (2023). “Decoding Negotiation Systems in the Middle East and North Africa: A Framework for Analysis,” Negotiation Journal, 39 (1), pp. 71-101.

• Bell, Arvid, and Dana Wolf (2022): "Is a Ceasefire Agreement Possible? A Negotiation Analysis of the Russia-Ukraine War," Russia Matters, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, March 12.

• Bell, Arvid, Alexander Bollfrass, Monica Giannone, Alexander Nehrbass, Taylor Valley, and Dana Wolf (2022). “The Scholar-Entrepreneurial Organization: Lessons in Building an Academic Startup,” Negotiation Journal, 38 (1), pp. 69-92.

• Bell, Arvid, and Alexander Bollfrass (2021): "To Hell with the Cell: The Case for Immersive Statecraft Education," International Studies Perspectives, 23 (2), pp. 129-150.

• Bell, Arvid, and Taylor Valley (2020): "The Art of Negotiation Exercise Design: Five Basic Principles to Produce Powerful Learning Experiences," Negotiation Journal, 36 (1), pp. 57-72.

• Bell, Arvid (2020). Why Europe Matters: The Case for an Arms Control Negotiation Campaign, Center for Strategic International Studies, September.

• Bell, Arvid, and Tom O’Bryan (2019). “A Puzzle Too Complex? James Baker’s Mediation Mission in Western Sahara, 1997-2004,” HKS Case 2158.0, Harvard Kennedy School Case Program.

• Dahlan, Malik (2019). Dispute Regulation in the Institutional Development of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Establishing the Normative Legal Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative, in: International Organizations and the Promotion of Effective Dispute Resolution, AIIB Yearbook of International Law.

• Dahlan, Malik (2019). A Saudi’s Advice for Kushner: How Your Peace Plan Can Still Avoid Catastrophic Failure, Haaretz, July 3.

• Valley, Taylor (2019). Why Venezuela Needs Russia: Moscow hopes Caracas will pay off its debts and be an enduring geostrategic location for Russian influence, The National Interest, June 20.