Center for Negotiation Analysis

The Center for Negotiation Analysis (CNA) is a not-for-profit research institute established in 1993 devoted to studying, training, and providing practical advisory support concerning negotiations, mediation, and other forms of conflict resolution at the national, regional and international levels.

Our Mission

The Center specializes in studying negotiation processes and translating them into practical, action-oriented training and recommendations for decision makers in government, business, civil society, and international organizations. The Center has conducted research studies, consulting assignments, assessments, field work, and training in Eastern and Western Europe, the Newly Independent States, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

In recent years, the Center has conducted research on negotiating peace agreements while confronting corruption in developing countries emerging from civil war, negotiating with terrorists, post-agreement negotiation in international regimes, assessing the negotiation readiness of countries, and negotiating in an insecure world. The Center has also sponsored several policy roundtables for practitioners and analysts to disseminate the findings of negotiation research. These sessions have been conducted in coordination with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria), the International Studies Association, the International Association for Conflict Management, and the Johns Hopkins University.

For the past 16 years, the Center has served as the Editorial Offices of International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice, published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (Leiden).

Over the years, the Center has received funding from the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation, Brill Academic Publishers, the National Defense University, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the United Nations, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria), the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Battelle Corporation/Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, and the European-American Center for Policy Analysis/RAND Corporation (the Netherlands), among others.

The Center for Negotiation Analysis is designated as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit educational institution by the US Internal Revenue Service.

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