Eric Berger

SENIOR FELLOW

Eric M. Berger is Senior Fellow at the Kennedy School Negotiation Project.  His research and teaching emphasize the links between cutting-edge scholarship and practice in negotiation and conflict resolution, with a focus on complex organizational and inter-group disputes, strategies for managing holdouts and spoilers in negotiation, and conflicts in the Middle East, Northern Ireland and Kosovo. A former director of external training at the Harvard Mediation Program and a consultant to public, private and non-profit organizations, Eric has conducted training programs on negotiation, mediation and conflict management for senior executives and public leaders in Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America and the Middle East.  He was an intern at the United Nations Security Council and lived for two years in Japan, where his efforts to integrate theater into language education drew attention from the national media.  Eric holds masters degrees in public administration and theological studies from Harvard, with a concentration on the analysis and resolution of intractable ethnic and religious conflicts.  He has been an ombudsman at the Kennedy School of Government since 2001. 

Eric can be reached at ericberger@post.harvard.edu.