William Ury is an American author, academic, anthropologist, and negotiation expert.
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William Ury was educated at Le Rosey and at Phillips Andover where he graduated in 1970.
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William Ury co-authored Getting to Yes with Roger Fisher as a guide for international mediators.
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William Ury has worked as a negotiation adviser and mediator in conflicts in the Middle East, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, Indonesia, Yugoslavia, Chechnya, and Venezuela among other countries.
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William Ury founded and served as the director of the Harvard Nuclear Negotiation Project.
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Together with Richard Smoke, William Ury interviewed US and Soviet specialists and government officials, and published the report for the government in 1984.
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Together with former President Jimmy Carter, William Ury co-founded the International Negotiation Network, which worked to end civil wars around the world.
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William Ury teaches negotiation to international corporate executives and labor leaders to reach mutually profitable agreements with customers, suppliers, unions and joint-venture partners.
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In 2007, William Ury founded the Abraham Path Initiative, a long-distance walking trail across the Middle East which connects the sites visited by Abraham as recorded in ancient religious texts and traditions.
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William Ury is the recipient of the Whitney North Seymour Award from the American Arbitration Association.
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William Ury received the Distinguished Service Medal from the Russian Parliament for his work on the resolution of ethnic conflicts.
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William Ury received the 2012 Peacemakers Award from Mediators Beyond Borders.