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The IGN e-Conference 2025
Negotiating with Strength
Mental Health and Resilience in High-Stakes Environments
Taking place online 28 February - 1 March 2025
The IGN e-Conference 2025 brings together professionals and experts to examine the often-overlooked impact of mental health in high-stakes negotiation settings. As mental well-being is increasingly recognized as fundamental to both personal health and effective professional practice, this conference will explore the role mental health plays within the field of negotiation. Emphasizing the importance of open discussions, it aims to equip negotiators with tools to understand their own limits and potential. Through diverse perspectives, participants will gain insights into how emotional intelligence, effective stress management, and an understanding of power dynamics can enhance both personal well-being and negotiation outcomes. The conference offers a unique opportunity for academics and practitioners to come together, blending research-based knowledge with firsthand experiences. Join us to learn how prioritizing mental well-being can empower negotiators to perform effectively in challenging negotiation scenarios.
Regular participation applications for the e-Conference 2025 are now closed.
Registration for the public online Keynote Speech is still open.
The IGN e-Conference
The IGN e-Conference is an annual online conference, taking place over multiple days. It is not an academic conference, instead aiming at enabling a conversation on negotiation-related topics between practitioners from different global contexts and with different experience levels. Every year, the e-Conference explores a different issue or topic through a Keynote Address by a noted expert in the field, as well as multiple interactive conference sessions that are focused on different aspects of the overarching topic. Through participatory formats such as workshop sessions besides presentations, the e-Conference offers the opportunity to expand participants’ network through a broad range of attendees from various backgrounds.
Conference Sessions
The conference will feature three main topical sessions which explore different aspects of mental health and resilience in high-stakes environments in greater depth. Each session will feature input from noted experts from the field. The sessions are designed to be interactive and give participants an opportunity to share their own insights and perspectives with the facilitators and other attendees.
Further details on the individual sessions, including details on facilitators and speakers, are be published on our website under 'Program' and on the IGN social media channels.
Official Media Partner
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e-Conference Team
Karoline Möller
Project Coordinator
Vinicius Teixeira Carcavallo
e-Conference Team
Sarah Shalash
e-Conference Team
Baniz Wasman
e-Conference Team
Maximiliano Schilling
e-Conference Team
Christian S. Trenk
e-Conference Team
Previous e-Conferences
Find out more about past editions of the IGN e-Conference:
Building Peace Together: Exploring the Roles of Feminism, Religion, and the Arts in Peacebuilding
1-2 March 2024
As the number of escalating conflicts grows worldwide, peace seems ever more elusive in the 21st century. In light of this, sustainable peacebuilding can be a means of preventing conflicts, helping to deescalate them if they break out, and reconciling society after conflict. The 2024 e-Conference by the Institute for Global Negotiation took a practitioner-focused closer look at different dimensions of and approaches towards peacebuilding,
Negotiating Complexity: Lessons from Food Security
22-23 February 2023
Russia’s war in Ukraine triggered a sharp rise in food, fuel and fertiliser prices, leading to a spiralling food crisis that has affected the whole world. This online conference examines cases related to food security to draw lessons for the conduct of complex negotiations.
