William Ury is a social anthropologist, award-winning author, and one of the world’s leading thinkers on negotiation, with nearly fifty years of experience in helping address some of the world’s toughest conflicts, “from the halls of Harvard to the depths of Kentucky coal mines, from the White House Crisis Center to the deserts of Botswana, from corporate boardrooms to war zones in the Middle East, Korea, and Ukraine.” With former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, William co-founded the International Negotiation Network, a nongovernmental body seeking to end civil wars around the world. At Harvard Law School, he helped found the Program on Negotiation and the Harvard Negotiation Project research center. He is also the founder of the Abraham Path Initiative, a non-profit that brings Middle Eastern communities together through a long-distance trail tracing the ancient journey of Abraham and his family. William has taught negotiation to tens of thousands of leaders across sectors—executives, government officials, military officers, teachers, lawyers, union leaders, and diplomats—and has advised dozens of Fortune 500 companies at the highest levels. His books include the fifteen-million-copy bestseller Getting to Yes, Getting Past No, The Third Side, and his most recent work, Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict.

Who is the most difficult person we’ll ever have to negotiate with? Why is it so hard to change people’s minds, and what’s the most graceful way to do it? Is there a root cause to all conflict? Could a simple path hold the key to turning any conflict into peace—at home, at work, and even between nations? And what, ultimately, is the secret to world peace?

Find out from William Ury, exclusively in conversation with Dr. Hitendra Wadhwa on Intersections Podcast.

“The most difficult person I have to deal with is the person I look at in the mirror every morning.”

William Ury

This episode offers key insights on:

• The most difficult person we’ll ever have to negotiate with

• Why changing people’s minds rarely works—and what does instead

• The same hidden laws behind family feuds and global conflict
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• A three-step pathway for global peace, and how anyone can walk it

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