Date: 19 November 2025, 17:20-18:50 

Location: Corvinus Universty of Budapest, building C, C 106 

Language of the event: English 

The lecture provides a timely overview of how mediation works in practice, and the challenges it faces in today’s changing international environment — given the decline of 
multilateralism, a renewed emphasis on hard security considerations and military solutions, the proliferation of mediators, and the emergence of a new, transactional style of peacemaking, among other trends.Paul Dziatkowiec is Director for Mediation and Peace Support at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He is an experienced diplomat and conflict mediator. After over a decade in the Australian diplomatic service in various conflict environments, he has since pursued a career in mediation and peacemaking.The talk will be moderated by Péter Marton (Department of International Relations, Institute of Global Studies, Corvinus University of Budapest). 

IR TALKS is a series of guest and roundtable talks organised by the Department of International Relations at Corvinus University to make sense of the world we live in at a time of turbulent international politics.