The Negotiators
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The Negotiators
Conflicts don’t just get resolved on their own. Most are resolved through a grueling process of give and take, usually behind closed doors. On the podcast The Negotiators, Doha Debates is partnering with Foreign Policy to put listeners in the room. Each episode features the mediators behind the worl...
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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 product...
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 Jaa...
The Afghan Impasse, Part 5: The Envoy Speaks
When a diplomatic deal goes bad, the blame usually falls on the politicians. Often, we don’t even remember the names of the negotiators. But in the wa...
The Afghan Impasse, Part 4: History Repeats
As soon as the Doha Agreement was signed, the clock started counting down to May 1, 2021—the day the United States had agreed to withdraw all troops....
The Afghan Impasse, Part 3: The Art of the (Separate) Deal
As a candidate for the U.S. presidency, Donald Trump vowed to end the war in Afghanistan. But seven months after his inauguration, he changed his mind...
The Afghan Impasse, Part 2: Secret Talks
By 2006, the United States and the Afghan Republic had been fighting the Taliban for five years. Neither side was poised to win. That’s when U.S. poli...
The Afghan Impasse, Part 1: Original Sin
All manner of the rich and powerful have passed through the doors of the mountaintop Hotel Petersberg in Bonn, Germany. But perhaps never as motley a...
Season 4: The Afghan Impasse Trailer
We all remember how the story ends, with the fall of Kabul and the return of the Taliban. But in this special seven-episode season of The Negotiators,...
The Maestro of Mediation
William Ury is one of the most famous negotiation experts in the world. He co-wrote the classic book Getting to Yes and co-founded Harvard’s Program o...
From Humanitarian Catastrophe to Peace in Yemen?
After nine years of war in Yemen, a peace deal finally seems at hand. Representatives of the Houthis met with the Saudis in Riyadh in September, in th...
Why Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plans Fail
The staggering violence between Israelis and Palestinians over the past month has rekindled a question long vexing professionals in the negotiating bu...
The Water Agreement That Helped Avert a Monumental Resource Crisis
The Colorado River provides water to about 40 million people in seven U.S. states, 30 Native American tribes, and northern Mexico. But because of clim...
How Negotiators Navigated the Thorny Issue of Water Rights Between Mexico and the U.S.
You may have heard about the Colorado River negotiations that ended in May. In a monumentally important agreement, several U.S. states along the Color...
How Kofi Annan Mediated a Volatile Political Crisis in Kenya
Former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, who passed away five years ago, was one of the most famous diplomats of his time. On today’...
Top Negotiator for Hollywood Writers Traces Steps That Led to a Deal With Studios
The Writers Guild of America struck a deal recently with Hollywood studios, ending one of the longest strikes in the union’s history.
Ellen Stu...
Negotiating a Truce to End Gang Violence in Los Angeles
Gang violence in Los Angeles surged dramatically in the 1980s. Over a seven-year period beginning in 1985, more than 4,000 people died from gang-relat...
The Lawyer Behind U.S. Women’s Soccer’s Equal Pay Deal
This bonus episode from the podcast The Closer is a complement to our recent episode about the U.S. Soccer equal pay negotiations. While the U.S. Wome...
The Hard Road to Equal Pay in U.S. Soccer
For the first time in U.S. soccer history, the men’s and women’s national teams are getting paid at the same rate. That’s the result of a grueling neg...
How the Good Friday Agreement Ended Decades of Violence in Northern Ireland
Our podcast The Negotiators launches its third season this week with a look at one of the most famous diplomatic deals ever: the 1998 Good Friday Agre...
Coming Soon: Negotiators Season 3
The Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. U.S. soccer negotiations for gender parity. How Kofi Annan mediated a political crisis in Kenya.
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ENCORE: What It Took to Negotiate a Nuclear Arms Treaty With Russia
President Vladimir Putin recently announced that Russia would suspend its participation in the New START agreement with the United States. Putin’s mov...
The Art of Hostage Negotiations—When You’re the Hostage
Earlier this year, a British Pakistani man took several people hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas—including the congregation’s rabbi, Charli...
Inside the Turbulent Negotiations Over Brexit
The negotiations that led to the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union lasted more than four years. During that grueling process, three...
Inside the Youth-Led Fight for Peace in Libya
The uprising in Libya that ended Muammar Qaddafi’s long reign in 2011 was supposed to provide a path to stability. Instead, the country descended into...
Negotiating a Criminal Justice Bill Across Party Lines
Criminal justice advocates have tried for decades to pass legislation to reduce the United States prison population. Yet somehow, at a moment when the...
Chileans Wanted a New Constitution but Negotiators Failed Them
When Chileans were asked in a referendum in 2020 whether they wanted a new constitution, the response was overwhelming. The current one dated back to...
What it Took to Negotiate a Nuclear Arms Treaty With Russia
In 2009, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia was about to expire. The START agreement, and others like it, had h...
Negotiating with Insurgents in Burkina Faso
Military officers in Burkina Faso seized power last month, in the country’s second coup this year. In both cases, the main justification was leadershi...
How a Band of Activists Negotiated a CA$40 Billion Settlement for Canada’s Indigenous Children
For decades, Canadian activists have criticized the government in Ottawa for underfunding Indigenous communities, leading to various harms and hardshi...
Negotiating an American Journalist’s Freedom From Myanmar, Part 1
Welcome back to The Negotiators, the podcast that brings you stories from mediators, troubleshooters, and negotiators around the world. The show is a...
Negotiating an American Journalist’s Freedom From Myanmar, Part 2
This is part two of negotiator Mickey Bergman’s story about the American journalist Danny Fenster, who was serving an 11-year prison sentence in Myanm...
The Negotiators Season 2 trailer
A nuclear arms deal with Russia. Reparations for indigenous communities in Canada. A hostage release negotiated by the hostage himself.
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The Road to Repatriation
This week, we hear from Jussi Tanner, a Finish ambassador and special envoy who negotiated the release of some 30 women and children from detention in...
How a Motley Group of Negotiators Freed the Chibok Schoolgirls
In 2014, members of the Islamist Boko Haram group abducted around 300 mostly Christian girls from a school in northeastern Nigeria, prompting outrage...
The Long Road to Libya’s Election
Libya will hold its first-ever presidential elections on December 24th, after decades of dictatorship and years of civil war. The vote marks an import...
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...
From Gang Member to Gang Mediator
On the show this week, we hear from a former gang member in Chicago who became an interrupter—a person who intervenes in potentially violent situation...
Just How Close Did Israelis and Palestinians Come to a Peace Deal in 2008?
In 2008, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas came close to outlining a shared vision of peace between...
Inside the Secret Talks that Led to a U.S. Prisoner Exchange with Iran
In 2019, when U.S. relations with Iran were at a low point, a non-governmental group called The Richardson Center mediated a prisoner swap between the...
Inside the Grueling Negotiations That Led to the Iran Nuclear Deal
The Iran nuclear deal is one of the most significant diplomatic agreements in recent history. This week on The Negotiators, we’ll hear the inside stor...