PATHWAYS

WHO WE ARE

MISSION & VIsion

Our mission is to help nurture problem-solving, cooperative, and shared societies in which people from different backgrounds and communities have the skills and sense of possibility needed to creatively and constructively negotiate challenging issues with one another.

We imagine a day when every student, educator, and leader – irrespective of background or social/political outlook – will be equipped to transform their negotiations into joint, creative problem-solving.

History & Heritage

PATHWAYS launched in 2015 as an independent nonprofit organization to bring negotiation education into educational systems and to build bridges between diverse communities. Our ongoing and expanding work is based on a 3-year pilot program developed by Dr. Shula Gilad (Program on Negotation, Harvard Law School) and Dr. Rachel Tal (Amal) based on methodology developed at the Harvard Negotiation Project. Our student curriculum was developed in close cooperation with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and consulting firms Vantage Partners and Triad Consulting Group.

TEAM

Chantay BenShimon

Program Officer

Mike Korman

Program Manager: Game Changers for High Schools

Avi Goldstein

Founder
& Director

Jessica Menasce

Civil Society
& Leadership Programs

Michael Schnall

Director of Programs

Maya Rimer

Workshop Facilitator

Fee Winkenbach

Workshop Co-Facilitator

Adi Tarabeih

Workshop Co-Facilitator

Younes M.A. al-Samman

Workshop Co-Facilitator

Shula Gilad

Consultant & Advisory Council Lead

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL

Mark Gordon

Vantage Partners

Founding partner of Vantage Partners, a global consulting firm spun out of the Harvard Negotiation Project. Co-founder and former Chairman of Conflict Management Group, a non-profit organization focused on disputes of international public concern (now merged into Mercy Corps).

Sheila Heen

Triad Consulting Group

Co-author of the New York Times Business Bestsellers Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, and Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well. Founder of Triad Consulting Group and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.

Bruce Patton

Getting to Yes

Co-author of the best-selling Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In and Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most. Co-founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project, Vantage Partners, and Conflict Management Group (CMG).

Shula Gilad

Harvard University

Senior fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and a consultant to various Middle East programs and organizations. Previously, Director of Policy Research at Kennedy School of Government’s Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East.

Donna Hicks

Dignity

Author of the book "Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict." Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Former Deputy Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution (PICAR) at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

Rachel Viscomi

Harvard Law School

Director of Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) and Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Law School. Works to train law students to become problem-solving lawyers, as they learn to support clients in rethinking the way they manage conflict in organizations.

Elizabeth Rayer

Vantage Partners

Leads the Training Services practice at Vantage Partners. Her work ranges from creating and implementing organizational-wide change initiatives to designing large-scale learning and skill development programs to leading bespoke learning journeys.

Rachel Tal

Amal Group

Head of English Studies for the Amal network of colleges and comprehensive high schools in Israel for over 30 years. Since her Humphrey fellowship at Boston University in 2006-2007, she has continued to focus on programs for promoting tolerance, peace education, and social cohesion.

Hussein Tarabeih

TAEQ

Founder and Executive Director of the Towns Association for Environmental Quality (TAEQ), the first Unit for Environmental Quality in the Arab Sector of Israel. Published expert and lecturer on environmental issues, co-existence, environmental conflicts, and urbanization.

Elad Oreg

Ono Academic College

Law Faculty member and lecturer at the Ono Academic College in Israel, where he has created a hybrid e-learning Mediation course being taught in all faculties. Facilitates an annual program to promote dialogue between students from different sectors of Israeli society.

ADVISORY COUNCIL OF EDUCATORS

Dania Masarwa

Baqa al-Gharbiyye

Sara Dayan

Netanya

Rivkah Hanssen

Misgav

Afaf Alkhatib-Nazzal

Sakhnin

Yasmeen Haj-Amer

Kseifa

Elias Farah

Nazareth