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The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present:
PON Live! Book Talk
Robert Malley – Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine
Robert MalleyYale Jackson School of Global Affairs
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Robert MnookinHarvard Law School |
James SebeniusHarvard Business School |
Thursday, November 20, 2025
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET (US and Canada)
Free and open to the public.
Register for the webinar here.
In this talk, Robert Malley will discuss his recent book, co-authored with Hussein Agha, written from the perspective of two people who have been involved in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations going back to the 1990s. Malley will share conclusions based on their insights and personal experiences regarding the viability of a two state-solution, the role of the United States as mediator in the conflict, what might now lie ahead, and why they believe the best guide to tomorrow is yesterday. Malley will take questions from attendees on this and any related topic.
Robert Malley is a Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. He is the author, with Hussein Agha, of Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine.
Mr. Malley has served as Special Envoy for Iran under President Joe Biden; White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and Gulf Region under President Barack Obama; and Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs and Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs under President Bill Clinton. He was also President and CEO of the International Crisis Group.
Mr. Malley served as a law clerk to Justice Byron R. White of the United States Supreme Court in 1991-1992. He is a graduate of Yale University, Harvard Law School and Oxford University, England, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of The Call from Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution and the Turn to Islam.
Robert Mnookin, a leading scholar in the field of conflict resolution, has applied his interdisciplinary approach to negotiation and conflict resolution to a remarkable range of problems, both public and private. He is a member of the CPR Institute’s National Panel of Distinguished Neutrals and has resolved a large number of complex disputes. He has also served as a consultant to governments and international agencies. Renowned as a teacher and lecturer, Mnookin has taught numerous workshops for corporations, governmental agencies, and law firms throughout the world and has trained many executives and professionals in negotiation and mediation skills.
Mnookin began teaching law at Boalt Hall, U.C. Berkeley, in 1972 and was on the Stanford faculty from 1981 until 1993. He has been a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University; a visiting professor of law at Columbia Law School; and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Before joining the Harvard faculty, he was the Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the director of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation.
James Sebenius, an authority on complex negotiations, has advanced the field in the academic realm, in the public and diplomatic sectors, and the business world; outside Harvard, he has worked full-time in the U.S. Commerce and State Departments as well as at the Blackstone Group.
At the Harvard Business School, Sebenius spearheaded the effort to make negotiation a required course in the M.B.A. program, and he created the negotiation department, which he led for several years. As a co-founder of Lax Sebenius LLC, he provides negotiation advisory services to corporations and governments worldwide.
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