Live from the Buffett Reading Room22 Sep 2025

Negotiating Peace: Looking Back to Look Forward

The Roberta Buffett Institute's 2024–25 international diplomacy series culminated in our spring quarter symposium, Negotiating Peace in a Multipolar World: Lessons Learned, organized with Fundación Acordemos. This two-day event brought together diplomats, negotiators, and academics to discuss the high-profile peace processes of recent decades. Our aim was to draw lessons for future negotiations in a world confronting a crisis of multilateralism.

Although peace negotiations are often greeted with relief, they also represent a fork in the road. A badly-crafted agreement may be worse than no agreement at all. Rushed peace deals store up trouble for the future, fueling more intense and widening conflicts.

This symposium examined the successes and failures of past processes, analyzed key principles and strategies, and discussed the roles of various actors in achieving lasting and implementable peace agreements. The opening plenary session included:

Christopher R. Hill, five-time US ambassador, whose last post was as ambassador to Serbia from 2022–2025

Kate Fearon, founding member of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition who participated in negotiations leading to the Good Friday Agreement

Sergio Jaramillo, President of Fundación Acordemos and Colombia's former High Commissioner for Peace

Pavlo Klimkin, Ukraine's former Minister of Foreign Affairs and co-founder of the Centre for National Resilience & Development

Moderator Ravi Agrawal, Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy

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