Join Harvard's Davis Center Negotiation Task Force for a 1-day immersive global crisis exercise that offers an opportunity for international and national security practitioners with government, academic, military and NGO backgrounds to practice advanced negotiation and decision-making skills in a highly realistic international crisis scenario.

Chaos on the Korean peninsula. The Kim dynasty has collapsed. Chinese military forces have moved in to “restore order.” The incursion stuns the United States and her allies. North Korean generals in command of nuclear forces are rumored to be defecting. To whom? Intelligence is unreliable. Tensions are rising in Europe, too. The U.S. has deployed next-generation missile defenses to Poland. To “defend Arctic shipping,” NATO prepares the largest maritime maneuver since the Cold War. In response, the Russian Northern Fleet moves to high alert.

Combining military war gaming and diplomatic multi-stakeholder negotiation simulation, participants will:

• Communicate in a dynamic and complex information environment ripe with cognitive traps.
• Experience the hazards of great power competition and barriers to international cooperation.
• Lead within and across hierarchies, organizational cultures and political systems.
• Engage with pressing global security challenges, including state collapse, nuclear confrontation, WMD terrorism and U.S.-Russia-China relations.

Schedule

Fri. Nov. 30, 4:00-10:00pm: Scenario briefing, receipt of background reading and individual preparation
Sat. Dec. 1, 8:00am-8:00pm: Red Horizon global crisis exercise
Sun. Dec. 2, 8:00am-3:00pm: Scenario debrief with Davis Center experts

Sign up online with a non-refundable deposit. Registration will open in September.

No advance preparation required. Full participation expected.

Sponsored by the Davis Center Negotiation Task Force.

For questions, please contact [email protected].