Curhan founded the Program for Young Negotiators (PYN) in 1993 as an extension of his early research at Harvard University (funded by the Ford Foundation) on the development of negotiation skills among children. Since then, PYN has received multiple endorsements from both private and public sectors in recognition of its efforts to equip children with powerful negotiation techniques to achieve their goals without the use of violence. In 1996, the Program for Young Negotiators was selected by the United States Departments of Education and Justice as a model program for school based violence prevention. In 1998, Houghton Mifflin published the
Young Negotiators curriculum (Curhan, 1998). Since then, the curriculum has been translated into Spanish, Hebrew, and Arabic, and has reached more than 35,000 students across the United States and abroad.
For more information about the Program for Young Negotiators, or to purchase a copy of the
Young Negotiators curriculum, visit
Channing Bete.
Articles regarding the Program for Young Negotiators can be downloaded by clicking the links below:
American Bar Association
Adolescence
Foreword by Roger Fisher to Curhan's Young Negotiators
Harvard Magazine
Harvard Project on Schooling of Children
Ontario Teachers' Association
The Boston Globe
The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School
