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OSCE organizes negotiation skills workshop for Kosovo's political leadership
PRISTINA 2 September 2003
PRISTINA, 2 September 2003 - The political leadership of Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG), including the Prime Minister and all ministers, have been invited to participate in a negotiation skills workshop from 6 to 11 September.
The event, organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo in co-operation with the Unites States Institute of Peace (USIP), aims at enhancing the negotiating capabilities and skills and the PISG to demonstrate the ways in which dialogue can bring about a positive outcome.
"The purpose of this event is to introduce and discuss concepts and techniques which will be necessary for dialogue with any negotiating partner" said Ambassador Pascal Fieschi, Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo. "It is not to prepare individual and specific items which may become the subject of dialogue."
The workshop will be led by Dr. Daniel Serwer, Director of USIP's Balkans Initiative, and Ambassador George Ward, Director of USIP's Training Programme. The PISG political leadership will take part over the first two days, while their political and technical advisors will follow over the next three days.
Participants will discuss tools used by negotiators in dialogue, including defining acceptable outcomes and alternatives to negotiated solutions. The leadership session will also be a brainstorming effort focused on positions and interests on issues. In addition, the political and technical advisors will focus on negotiating techniques and simulations of negotiations.
All sessions will be held at the Kosovo Police Service School.
USIP is an independent, non-partisan federal institution created by United States Congress to promote the prevention, management, and peaceful resolution of international conflicts. Its Balkans Initiative aims to promote peace and reconciliation in places where violent conflicts have been ended by internationally supported peace agreements, while also working to prevent conflict and instability in other parts of the Balkans.
The event, organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo in co-operation with the Unites States Institute of Peace (USIP), aims at enhancing the negotiating capabilities and skills and the PISG to demonstrate the ways in which dialogue can bring about a positive outcome.
"The purpose of this event is to introduce and discuss concepts and techniques which will be necessary for dialogue with any negotiating partner" said Ambassador Pascal Fieschi, Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo. "It is not to prepare individual and specific items which may become the subject of dialogue."
The workshop will be led by Dr. Daniel Serwer, Director of USIP's Balkans Initiative, and Ambassador George Ward, Director of USIP's Training Programme. The PISG political leadership will take part over the first two days, while their political and technical advisors will follow over the next three days.
Participants will discuss tools used by negotiators in dialogue, including defining acceptable outcomes and alternatives to negotiated solutions. The leadership session will also be a brainstorming effort focused on positions and interests on issues. In addition, the political and technical advisors will focus on negotiating techniques and simulations of negotiations.
All sessions will be held at the Kosovo Police Service School.
USIP is an independent, non-partisan federal institution created by United States Congress to promote the prevention, management, and peaceful resolution of international conflicts. Its Balkans Initiative aims to promote peace and reconciliation in places where violent conflicts have been ended by internationally supported peace agreements, while also working to prevent conflict and instability in other parts of the Balkans.