When:
Thursday, April 3, 2025
All day
Where: 720 University Place, Buffett Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
(847) 467-2770
Group: Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Category: Global & Civic Engagement
This symposium addresses the challenges of negotiating peace through multilateral diplomacy. It dissects the law, practice and politics of peace negotiations in the 1990s with an eye towards the current moment. The evening plenary session on Thursday, April 3 features prominent leaders and experts involved in negotiating peace in high-profile conflicts to foreground lessons learned from the successes and failures of peace processes of the past few decades.
The substantive sessions on Friday, April 4 focus on the practical difficulties confronting peace negotiators, the principles and strategies that are key to an effective peace negotiation, and the potential impact of a peace negotiation on the ground. The comparative and thematic panels feature speakers with deep expertise in peace negotiations and third-party mediation to unpack the complexities and dilemmas of peace negotiations. We will discuss the conditions that are necessary for peace negotiations to occur and the role of different state and non-state actors in negotiating peace in a multipolar world. The sessions also analyze the structural and design elements that make for a successful peace negotiation and the factors that can enable or enforce their implementation.
This event is presented by the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Fundación Acordemos.
Speakers
Barney Afako
Ravi Agrawal
Betty Bigombe
Kate Fearon
Claire Hajaj
Sergio Jaramillo
Pavlo Klimkin
Carlos Prieto
William Taylor
Tor Wennesland
Abiodun Williams
Please note that 720 University Place is not an ADA-accessible space. Increasing physical access to buildings and facilities is a goal of the University, but not all buildings and venues have been updated.