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P IN will no longer be located in Laxenburg after this year. On January 1, our paths will part. During our 23 years at IIASA, we have published our 23 books and served as an ambassador and publicity agent for the Institute in our roadshows and publications. PIN has tackled major problems and concepts associated with the subject of negotiation and pushed back the frontiers of knowledge about it. We have just published a book analyzing the blockages in the climate talks and ways to circumvent these (Facilitating the Climate Talks, 2010). One of PIN's earliest books was International Environmental Negotiation (1993), more relevant than ever. Two works tell how to negotiate with terrorists (since we do, anyhow) (Engaging Extremists and Negotiating with Terrorists, 2010). Diplomacy Games (2009) focuses on which types of formal models are useful for negotiation practice and analysis and in what ways. Another volume resolves the 'peace vs. justice' issue that has always plagued peacemaking (Peace vs. Justice, 2005), while yet another study reverses common thinking about the relation between escalation and negotiation (Escalation and Negotiation, 2005). Getting It Done (2003) revises current ideas about the nature of negotiations on international regimes, and three other works tell how to use national and professional culture in negotiation Another study draws unique lessons from the exercise of preventive negotiations on a dozen issue areas (Preventive Negotiation 2003), while Negotiating European Union (2001) is the only work to date to have analyzed the EU as a negotiation forum. We could go on, but we are out of breath… While our readership at IIASA is not as large as we would like, our publications have reached a significant audience outside the Institute and have been cited and used for teaching; the first edition of our flagship volume, International Negotiation (1993, 2003), has sold out and the book is now well into its second edition, with its successor, The Sage Handbook on Conflict Resolution (2009), also doing quite well. We have carried our message, by invitation and in our roadshows, to a good dozen and a half leading universities and another half dozen research institutes around the globe. Additional invitations are currently in the works and we will accept them, though unfortunately not as ambassadors for IIASA. Within the Institute, PIN initiated a number of gap-bridging activities. We brought policymakers and practitioners to IIASA (e.g., the Theorists Meet Practitioners workshop, which …

I IASA is a leading world research institution, whose scientists produce and process new knowledge in a number of important research areas: energy and technology; environment and natural resources ; population and society. The Institute in Laxenburg aspires to apply the results of its work in international decision making and regime building, and its track record in this regard is indeed impressive. One well known example of IIASA's work is the RAINS model, which was so successfully used in the negotiations on long-range air pollution in Europe—the complex talks on acid rain. As seen in a pure negotiation perspective, the RAINS model functioned as a combination of mediator and facilitator. All natural scientific research programs at IIASA have in some way or other made significant contributions to international cooperation including in institutions like the United Nations or the European Union. This scientific assistance can be expected to continue to be demanded in the future. The effective use of scientific knowledge in international policy-making is an important and complex research area in its own right. The first Director of IIASA, Howard Raiffa, who established PIN, the Program on the Processes of International Negotiation, acknowledged this thought. Howard considered that advanced knowledge about international negotiations could give decision support when the scientific knowledge produced by IIASA is brought into international negotiations and organizations. The PIN Steering Committee continues to argue for, and also further develop, the decision support function that Howard Raiffa envisaged. Various practical approaches have been employed to achieve that aim. Each book that PIN has produced in the last two decades contains a section on lessons for both theory and practice. Several of the Roadshows organized by PIN around the world have taken place at institutions with a close association to the foreign policy practitioners in the country concerned like the Argentine Council for International Relations or the School of International Relations in Tehran. Several current PIN projects are closely linked to ongoing international negotiations on life-threatening global issues, which have generated an increased demand for high quality scientific knowledge and information. One PIN project is designed to directly support negotiations pertaining to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Another project proposes concrete measures to facilitate the UN negotiation on climate change, and a third undertaking, which involves several IIASA projects collaborating with PIN, strives to support the building of a multi-issue regime for the Caspian Sea. However, continued and …