Sneak Peek: The Mediator’s Studio – Season 8

Pankaj Saran, former Deputy National Security Advisor of India, takes listeners inside more than four decades at the heart of Indian diplomacy. He shares lessons from negotiations that shaped India’s relationships with its neighbours, including the landmark India-Bangladesh Land ...  Show more

Dr Manal Radwan, Special Envoy and Advisor of the Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs for Negotiations and Peace Efforts, draws on two decades at the centre of Middle East diplomacy, from the Saudi-Iran rapprochement to the international campaign for the recognition of Palestinian ...  Show more

This week on Babel, Jon Alterman speaks with Hiba Husseini, a Palestinian lawyer and a legal adviser to Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations for 30 years. They discuss the state of pro-peace communities after October 7th and the war in Gaza's effect on future peacemaking effort ...  Show more

Antony Blinken is leaving the Middle East after spending two days in the region, as violence between Israelis and Palestinians flares up once again. He is the latest secretary of state to try and navigate a way out of this cycle of despair, while also clinging to the hope and vis ...  Show more

Sarah Montague speaks to former Catholic priest Oliver McTernan who has spent more than two decades working in conflict resolution in the Middle East. He is the director of the organisation Forward Thinking and was involved in negotiations that led to the release of the Israeli s ...  Show more

Today Africa Daily meets the peace-makers:Betty Bigombe walked alone into the jungle to meet the notorious warlord Joseph Kony of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) – who had a reputation for cutting off the limbs or lips of his victims. Paul Nantulya worked alongside Nelson Mandel ...  Show more