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During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, handshakes, air travel, and group negotiating sessions are now off-limits. Here’s how to negotiate amid our new virtual reality.

In 2014, regional stakeholders created the Negotiation Strategies Institute (NSI) to promote communication across disputing governments and other groups affected by the conflict. With the Harvard Negotiation Project (HNP) as its academic sponsor, NSI holds an intensive 10-month executive program each year for government and other leaders from across the Middle East, as well as diplomats from other nations posted to the region, to learn and practice cutting-edge negotiation strategies. Negotiation Briefings spoke to Jane Sherburne, chair of NSI’s board of directors, about how the program works and what it aims to achieve.

We expect too much of peace agreements between competitors, as a recent feud between Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren illustrates.

In the United States, the gender wage gap for full-time workers amounts to women earning about 80 cents on the dollar as compared to men; similar or greater disparities can be found across the globe. Hannah Riley Bowles, the Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School, and a leading researcher on gender and negotiation, explains why salary negotiations are only part of the story.