Turn the Tide: Democratizing Negotiation Skills for Global Climate Action

Turn the Tide is a new and growing open-source platform hosting a free curriculum of simulations and cases for teaching climate negotiations and diplomacy. During the webinar, the project’s co-leaders, Monica Giannone, Harvard Kennedy School, and Anselm Dannecker, Washington University in St Louis, will share the approach behind Turn the Tide, outline how the materials can be used, describe how practitioners can collaborate in producing new materials, and reflect on lessons learned in developing new materials together with practitioners.

The website and the materials are the outcome of a two-year process of working closely with senior climate negotiators to distill critical skills for climate action into an integrated body of materials that can be taught online and in person.

Turn the Tide is an interuniversity collaboration hosted at the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Collaboratory at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership. Its mission is to democratize access to learning and to equip individuals, whether representing local administrations or international delegations, with cutting-edge negotiation skills to champion climate solutions.