LL.M. Programme in Arbitration & Dispute Resolution

Speaker: Mr Paul Dziatkowiec, Director of Mediation and Peace Support, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Moderator: Shahla Ali, Faculty of Law, HKU
Date: 9 November 2026
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Venue: Room CBC, LG 1/F, Chow Yei Ching Building, Main Campus, HKU
For Registration, please click here.

About the Speaker:
Paul Dziatkowiec has spent the last 25 years working in diplomacy and conflict mediation. He is currently Director of Mediation and Peace Support at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and earlier led diverse mediation initiatives over a decade at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. In his mediation work, Paul has facilitated numerous confidential dialogue processes, including in the Ukraine-Russia context, the Caucasus, Middle East, Arctic, Asia and the US-China context. Paul was previously an Australian diplomat for over a decade, with postings in Africa, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific. He is also a Senior Adviser to the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Peace Dividend Initiative, an expert on UNDP’s crisis response roster, Fellow at the Oxford Global Society and World Academy of Art and Science and member of Diplomats Without Borders and the Explorers Club.