Lawyering Peace
Peace negotiations and post-conflict justice pursuits: Behind the Scenes 📹 Hosted by experienced peace negotiator and Founder of the Public International Law & Policy Group, Dr. Paul R. Williams.
Episodes
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, Dr. Paul Williams sits down with Ruhee Neog, Director of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies in New Delhi, to examine whether today’s geopolitical turbulence reflects a true paradigm shift or a series of overlapping transitions within an evolving global order.
They explore why the world may still be experiencing a strained unipolar moment rather than a fully realized multipolar system, ...
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, Dr. Paul Williams speaks with Kat Fotovat, a global expert on gender, artificial intelligence, and international security, to explore how technological disruption and shifting power structures are reshaping the role of women in peacebuilding.
Drawing on two decades of experience across conflict and post conflict settings, Kat reflects on the evolution of gender policy within international insti...
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, Dr. Paul Williams sits down with Dr. Łukasz Adamski, historian, political scientist, and Deputy Director of the Mieroszewski Dialogue Centre, to discuss the profound historical and political shifts redefining Eastern Europe’s role in the global order.
They discuss why 70 to 80 percent of modern politics is actually a discussion about history, how Poland’s "deep trauma" of 1939 shapes its curren...
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, Dr. Paul Williams sits down with two prominent former senior Mexican diplomats, Ambassador Rubén Beltrán and Ambassador Jorge Lomónaco, to examine Mexico's place in the shifting global order and the difficult choices it faces as a rising middle power caught between geography, history, and a transforming international system.
They discuss why Mexico sits between a rock and a hard place in its re...
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, Dr. Paul Williams sits down with Dr. Kushtrim Istrefi, Senior Peace Fellow at PILPG, Associate Professor of Public International Law and Human Rights at Utrecht University, and substitute member of the Venice Commission, to interrogate whether the rules-based international order is fracturing, evolving, or simply revealing what it always was.
They discuss why Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukr...
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, Dr. Paul Williams sits down with Dr. Mitat Çelikpala, Professor of International Relations and Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, to examine Türkiye’s evolving role at the center of the global paradigm shift.
They discuss why the Black Sea has become the defining microcosm of great power competition, how Türkiye’s transactio...
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, Dr. Paul Williams sits down with Dr. Maria Mälksoo, Professor of International Relations at the University of Copenhagen and one of Europe's leading scholars on memory, identity, and security politics, to make sense of the paradigm shift reshaping global order right now.
They discuss why the collapse of shared ritual and legal norms may be more dangerous than it appears, whether Europe's strate...
Does war suspend our commitment to human rights or test it?
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, host Dr. Paul Williams speaks with Dr. Taras Leshkovych of the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine at OHCHR about documenting violations during active conflict. They discuss how the human rights landscape has evolved since 2014, the impact of the 2022 full scale invasion, conditions in occupied territories, digital ...
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, Dr. Paul Williams sits down with David Crane, Senior Peace Fellow at PILPG, to discuss the evolving global order, the role of international law, and the future of accountability for atrocity crimes.
Drawing on more than 40 years of experience as a U.S. Army officer, Judge Advocate, and founding Chief Prosecutor of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, David reflects on the post-WWII system, para...
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, Dr. Paul R. Williams speaks with Tyler Thompson about the future of negotiations and the role of artificial intelligence in complex high-stakes processes.
Tyler Thompson is a PILPG Peace Fellow, a peace negotiator, legal advisor, and senior government official with nearly two decades of experience advising on complex negotiations across both public and private sectors. At PILPG, he served as Leg...
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, Dr. Paul R. Williams speaks with Dr. Marieke de Hoon about the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 and the long road to accountability for the 298 civilians murdered on July 17, 2014.
Dr. de Hoon is Professor of International Criminal Justice at the University of Amsterdam and Director of PILPGs Netherlands Office. She has worked closely on legal analysis connected to MH17 and has supporte...
This episode of the Lawyering Peace Podcast’s Ukraine Series features an in depth conversation with Lidiia Kuzmenko, Protection Officer at the UNHCR Ukraine Country Office, on the profound human impact of internal displacement during Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. With more than five million people uprooted inside Ukraine, Lidiia offers expert insight into the daily realities facing displaced families, the legal and ad...
This episode of the Lawyering Peace podcast focuses on one of the most crucial pillars of peace building in Ukraine: gender equality and the central role of women in shaping a just and durable peace.
Dr. Paul R. Williams speaks with Dr. Khrystyna Kit, chairwoman of the Ukrainian Women Lawyers Association JurFem and expert adviser to the Prosecutor General’s Office on conflict related sexual violence. Drawing on more than fifteen...
Can an investment fund become a cornerstone of peace?
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, Dr. Paul R. Williams speaks with Henry Scott, a partner at Milbank and a leading authority on international project finance, about the United States Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund, a first of its kind vehicle jointly launched by Washington and Kyiv.
Henry explains how this groundbreaking framework blends in-kind equity, strategic f...
What happens when a nuclear power plant becomes a battlefield?
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, Dr. Paul R. Williams speaks with Dr. Dmytro Koval — Co-Executive Director of Truth Hounds and Associate Professor of International Law at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy — about the weaponization of Ukrainian nuclear infrastructure in Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
Drawing on Truth Hounds’ groundbreaking report “In a Nuclear Prison”,...
What happens when the battlefield moves online?
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, Dr. Paul R. Williams speaks with Dr. Anna Mysyshyn, a Ukrainian legal scholar and expert in AI ethics, cybersecurity, and digital governance. As the Founder of the Institute of Innovative Governance, Anna has helped shape Ukraine’s legal and strategic response to one of the most digitally complex wars in modern history.
Together, they explore the in...
What does true accountability look like in the face of unprovoked aggression?
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, Dr. Paul R. Williams sits down with Dr. Anton Korynevych, Director of the Department of International Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and one of the key legal architects of the proposed Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine.
Together, they explore the groundbreaking legal and dip...
What does it take to build lasting peace — and secure it?
What kind of security guarantees can truly deter renewed aggression?
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, Dr. Paul R. Williams is joined by Lesia Ogryzko, Director of the Sahaidachnyi Security Center, and Julian Braithwaite, former UK Ambassador to the UN and WTO, to unpack what a post-war security framework for Ukraine could and should look like.
Together, they explore how t...
What does it take to create an international reparations mechanism? How can individuals and institutions contribute to a future justice process—one claim at a time?
In this latest episode of Lawyering Peace, Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi, Executive Director of the Register of Damage for Ukraine, joins Dr. Paul R. Williams to discuss one of the most innovative legal accountability efforts emerging from Russia’s war of aggression.
The Regis...
What are the legal and political pathways for using frozen Russian assets to compensate Ukraine?
And why has the transfer of these assets become a litmus test for the rules-based international order?
In this episode of Lawyering Peace, Ukrainian diplomat and legal expert Mykola Yurlov joins Dr. Paul R. Williams to discuss how frozen Russian sovereign assets could - and should - be used to support Ukraine’s reconstruction and delive...
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