William L. Ury

William L. Ury is the Director of the Global Negotiation Project at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. He also works as a consultant and mediator with community, government, and business leaders around the world. Ury's research focuses on the global dynamics of transforming destructive conflicts into constructive processes. Through his Third Side initiative, Ury has examined the role that the surrounding community can play in preventing, resolving, and containing destructive conflict. Ury's interests also include dispute systems design and prevention of or response to ethnic conflict. One of his most recent projects is the global e-Parliament whose mission is to further global democracy through the creation of an ongoing forum in which the world's democratically-elected legislators can engage with civil society in a joint search for effective solutions to global problems.