Nelson Mandela, Negotiation and Conflict Management: David Venter at TEDxEutropolis

Professor David Venter is born and raised in South Africa. He's co-founder and Director of the Global Negotiation Academy. Professor Ventor has a wealth of local and international experience as both a facilitator of negotiation interventions, and a trainer and advisor of negotiators. He advised govenemental departments such as the police and the department of Justice, trained for 3 years the governement of Nelson Mandela and counted among his private clients BMW and Nissan.
He was a lecturer at the Havard University and the MIT business school. Since 2003 he's operating in Europe as a consultant for Motorola as a negiotator in contracts with governements in Poland, Germany, Portugal and Sweden. He gives trainings to Astra Zeneca and Proctor and Gamble.
Since 4 years he's a guest lecturer at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, and nowadays he's a full time professor.

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[KobusKok]

David, as a fellow professor in South Africa, having experienced the same as you did, I appreciate your presentation. In my opinion, the wisdom of Ubuntu is applicable here: A person is kept alive as long as we share the stories of that person. Stories carry values - by telling those stories, we keep the values alive. In the last two weeks when Mandela was critically ill, we realized that it will be the responsibility of all of us, Black and White, to build on the values of reconciliation...

[MrsSusanCarlson]

This is wonderful. What a great person and beautiful tribute to Nelson Mandela.

[lionelsaayman]

a great inside take and well presented. It is exactly these personal tributes that brings to life the legend of great men and women. thank you.

[NewEarth]

27 YEARS of incarceration in a 3x4 cell could not crush the spirit of a kind, wise and compassionate man. See what the power of love and well directed mind at peace can do

[davidsteward]

Nelson Mandela was indeed a remarkable man - one of the greatest that I ever worked with. However, he was also complex. We must remember that he was a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party and in that capacity played a decisive role in launching the armed struggle - against the wishes of the then leader of the ANC, Chief Albert Luthuli.

[omarhussein]

if you respected and loved him so much, you wouldn't talk about his death in such way, its like you didnt consider the idea that no human should hear some one say " yh that guy is gonna die any day now "

[czechit]

Mandela was in a private three bedroom "jail" even he called a penthouse. He even negotiated to not be released with De Klerk. Pretending he is a caricature is wrong. The same goes to the very violent Gandhi.

[sadigov]

SAR is still very much an Apartheid though. They should have sent the africaners back to the Netherlands.