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==Career==
 
==Career==
Cristal is a Lt. Colonel (retired) in the IDF. He served in Israeli negotiation teams with Jordan and the Palestinians, from 1994 to 2001. Since 2001, he has been an advisor and consultant to businesspeople and public officials. He is the founder of NEST group and the CEO of Negotiation Strategies LTD.<ref name="CristalBio">[http://portal.idc.ac.il/en/faculty/cristal.moty/Pages/Resume.resume?userName=Y3Jpc3RhbC5tb3R5&Language=1 MOTY CRISTAL], IDC Herzliya, accessed 16 September 2013.</ref>
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===Israeli negotiator===
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Cristal is a Lt. Colonel (retired) in the IDF. He served in Israeli negotiation teams with Jordan and the Palestinians, from 1994 to 2001.<ref name="CristalBio">[http://portal.idc.ac.il/en/faculty/cristal.moty/Pages/Resume.resume?userName=Y3Jpc3RhbC5tb3R5&Language=1 MOTY CRISTAL], IDC Herzliya, accessed 16 September 2013.</ref>
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He was a leading team member in the [[IDF Crisis Negotiation Unit]] from 1998, and led the preparatory and operational work of the unit during the Gaza disengagement.<ref>[http://www.ipnp.org/committee.html Steering Committee], Israeli-Palestinian Negotiating Partners, accessed 16 September 2013.</ref>
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He is a former Deputy Head of the [[Negotiation Management Center]] within Prime Minister [[Ehud Barak]]'s office. In this capacity Mr. Cristal attended the Camp David and Taba Summits, and was in charge of the preparatory work, scenario planning, and crisis management analysis following the outbreak of the Second Intifada in September 2000.<ref>[http://www.ipnp.org/committee.html Steering Committee], Israeli-Palestinian Negotiating Partners, accessed 16 September 2013.</ref>
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===Consultant===
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Since 2001, he has been an advisor and consultant to businesspeople and public officials. He is the founder of NEST group and the CEO of Negotiation Strategies LTD.<ref name="CristalBio">[http://portal.idc.ac.il/en/faculty/cristal.moty/Pages/Resume.resume?userName=Y3Jpc3RhbC5tb3R5&Language=1 MOTY CRISTAL], IDC Herzliya, accessed 16 September 2013.</ref>
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He is a co-founder of [[Israeli Palestinian Negotiating Partners]].<ref>[http://www.ipnp.org/committee.html Steering Committee], Israeli-Palestinian Negotiating Partners, accessed 16 September 2013.</ref>
  
 
===Cancelled NHS Workshop===
 
===Cancelled NHS Workshop===
 
Cristal was due to lead a session for NHS managers and union officials in Manchester in early May 2012, entitled The Role of Negotiation in Dealing With Conflict, run by the Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust. Some days before the conference, he received an email from the workshop organisers cancelling the event after pressure from the trade union [[Unison]].<ref>Harriet Sherwood, [http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/30/israel-middleeast Israeli negotiation expert has NHS workshop cancelled after union protests], theguardian.com, 30 April 2012.</ref>
 
Cristal was due to lead a session for NHS managers and union officials in Manchester in early May 2012, entitled The Role of Negotiation in Dealing With Conflict, run by the Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust. Some days before the conference, he received an email from the workshop organisers cancelling the event after pressure from the trade union [[Unison]].<ref>Harriet Sherwood, [http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/30/israel-middleeast Israeli negotiation expert has NHS workshop cancelled after union protests], theguardian.com, 30 April 2012.</ref>
  
Cristal subsequently sued [[Unison]] and [[Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust]] in a court case which began in September 2013.<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jewish-academic-moty-cristal-sues-unisonfor-racial-discrimination-8810113.html Jewish academic Moty Cristal sues Unison for racial discrimination], ''The Independent'', 11 September 2013.</ref>
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Cristal subsequently sued [[Unison]] and [[Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust]] in a court case which began in September 2013.<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jewish-academic-moty-cristal-sues-unisonfor-racial-discrimination-8810113.html Jewish academic Moty Cristal sues Unison for racial discrimination], ''The Independent'', 11 September 2013.</ref>
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Revision as of 18:48, 16 September 2013

Moty Cristal is a professor for negotiation systems at the SKOLKOVO business school in Moscow, a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, research fellow at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya and a former visiting scholar at the Program on International Negotiation (PIN) at IIASA, Austria, (2001-2008), Program On Negotiation at Harvard Law School (2007) and the IDSS in Singapore (2004).[1]

Education

Cristal graduated from Bar-Ilan Law School in Israel (1994), and Harvard Kennedy School of Government (1998), before undertaking a PhD at the London School of Economics[1]

Career

Israeli negotiator

Cristal is a Lt. Colonel (retired) in the IDF. He served in Israeli negotiation teams with Jordan and the Palestinians, from 1994 to 2001.[1]

He was a leading team member in the IDF Crisis Negotiation Unit from 1998, and led the preparatory and operational work of the unit during the Gaza disengagement.[2]

He is a former Deputy Head of the Negotiation Management Center within Prime Minister Ehud Barak's office. In this capacity Mr. Cristal attended the Camp David and Taba Summits, and was in charge of the preparatory work, scenario planning, and crisis management analysis following the outbreak of the Second Intifada in September 2000.[3]

Consultant

Since 2001, he has been an advisor and consultant to businesspeople and public officials. He is the founder of NEST group and the CEO of Negotiation Strategies LTD.[1]

He is a co-founder of Israeli Palestinian Negotiating Partners.[4]

Cancelled NHS Workshop

Cristal was due to lead a session for NHS managers and union officials in Manchester in early May 2012, entitled The Role of Negotiation in Dealing With Conflict, run by the Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust. Some days before the conference, he received an email from the workshop organisers cancelling the event after pressure from the trade union Unison.[5]

Cristal subsequently sued Unison and Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust in a court case which began in September 2013.[6]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 MOTY CRISTAL, IDC Herzliya, accessed 16 September 2013.
  2. Steering Committee, Israeli-Palestinian Negotiating Partners, accessed 16 September 2013.
  3. Steering Committee, Israeli-Palestinian Negotiating Partners, accessed 16 September 2013.
  4. Steering Committee, Israeli-Palestinian Negotiating Partners, accessed 16 September 2013.
  5. Harriet Sherwood, Israeli negotiation expert has NHS workshop cancelled after union protests, theguardian.com, 30 April 2012.
  6. Jewish academic Moty Cristal sues Unison for racial discrimination, The Independent, 11 September 2013.