The Negotiators Podcast
1) Negotiating with the Taliban
The Afghan government spent nearly a year trying to reach a power-sharing agreement with the Taliban—until the group’s fighters swept into Kabul this past August. Those negotiations failed to produce ...Show More
2) Negotiating a Place for Women at the Peace Table
In 2000, Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini arrived in New York with a simple yet radical idea: to lobby the U.N. Security Council from the outside and ensure women were recognized as central to peace and securi...Show More
3) How a Small Island Nation Pushed for a Deal on Loss and Damage
Developing countries are the least responsible for climate change, but they are the most affected by it. That’s why the Alliance of Small Island States first proposed a fund to mitigate that damage ba...Show More
4) Negotiating Gaza: From Hostage Deal to Cease-Fire
Last week, we heard about a negotiation at the U.N. Security Council that led to a brief pause in the fighting between Israel and Hamas in November 2023. As part of the pause in the fighting, Israel a...Show More
5) Before the Cease-Fire, Malta Negotiated a ‘Humanitarian Pause’ to the War in Gaza
In late 2023, a few weeks after the start of the war in Gaza, the United Nations Security Council was at odds over how to respond. Any one of the council’s permanent members can veto a resolution—and ...Show More
Before the Cease-Fire, Malta Negotiated a ‘Humanitarian Pause’ to the War in Gaza
35:00 | Dec 15th, 2025
6) Inside the ‘Impossible’ Deal That Averted an Environmental Disaster in Yemen
For decades, the FSO Safer had been used to store oil off the coast of Yemen. But when the Houthis took control of the capital city of Sanaa in 2014, the government-owned tanker was suddenly located i...Show More
Inside the ‘Impossible’ Deal That Averted an Environmental Disaster in Yemen
37:14 | Dec 8th, 2025
7) How 193 Countries Agreed on the Crime of Aggression
When the International Criminal Court was established in 1998, the crime of aggression was identified as the supreme international crime. But countries couldn’t come to an agreement on how the crime w...Show More
8) Coming Soon: The Negotiators Season 5
The Negotiators is back with a new host and all new stories from some of the world's most dramatic negotiations. Journalist Femi Oke takes us behind the scenes at a luxury resort in Uganda, as governm...Show More
9) The Afghan Impasse, Part 7: Talking to the Taliban
Since taking power, the Taliban have cracked down on human rights and deprived Afghan women and girls of fundamental freedoms. The outlook for productive engagement is dim. Yet there may have been a w...Show More
10) The Afghan Impasse, Part 6: Digital Dunkirk
Once it became clear that U.S. troops were leaving Afghanistan, the situation on the ground turned to panic. In August 2021, radio reporter Shirin Jaafari found herself in the middle of the effort to ...Show More