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) Why Diplomacy Fails: Israel-Palestine and the Iran Nuclear Deal
In a special season-ending bonus episode recorded live at Doha Forum, International Peace Institute President Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein sits down with former U.S. negotiator Rob Malley to reflect on the c...Show More
3) How Iran and the U.S. Found Common Ground—and Lost It Again
The United States and Iran have sparred for decades. But in 2015, during President Barack Obama’s second term, the two countries successfully negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),...Show More
4) How a Sri Lankan Mother Became an Unlikely Negotiator for Peace
When her son went missing in Sri Lanka’s civil war, Visaka Dharmadasa began organizing other families of missing soldiers. What started as a search for answers led her and a small group of mothers acr...Show More
5) 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
6) 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
7) 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
8) 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
9) 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
10) 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