Peace in a Changing World: A Fireside Chat with Mark Muller Stuart KC

Peace in a changing world: A fireside chat on 21st century conflict and peacemaking

Date: Tuesday 2nd December 2025, 6-7:30pm.

Venue: Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical School building, University of Glasgow.

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The ILGSPD 2026 Annual Lecture will be presented in a fireside chat with Mark Muller Stuart KC, an international mediator and senior advocate who specialises in public international law.

The fireside chat will be followed by Q&A with the audience and a drinks reception.

About the speaker:

Mark Muller Stuart KC is founder and executive director of Beyond Borders, a Scottish organization dedicated to fostering peace and international exchange, and director of the Scottish Peace Platform. He is also a senior advocate associated with Doughty Street Chambers in London, where he specialises in public international law, criminal, terrorism and human rights related litigation.

Mark regularly advises numerous international bodies on humanitarian and conflict resolution related issues. He was Senior Mediation Advisor to the UN Department of Political Affairs and the UN Special Envoy to Syria in the Syrian peace talks. He has also acted as a Senior Advisor to the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (Geneva), Beyond Conflict (Boston) and previously for Inter Mediate (London).

As an advocate and mediator he has appeared before various UN, OSCE, EU, and Council of Europe bodies including the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. He has also written a number of books and reports on human rights and conflict related issues areas, having conducted international missions to Afghanistan, Sudan, Palestine, Iraq, Oman, Bahrain, Syria, Libya, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, India, Cuba, Columbia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Afghanistan.

Mark has been twice recognized and praised for his international work in defence of human rights and vulnerable communities by LIBERTY and JUSTICE in 2006 and 2007. In 2008 he won the Bar Council’s Sydney Elland Goldsmith Award for his work in promoting the rule of law in Afghanistan for the BHRC.

About the Erasmus Mundus Master in International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development:

The Erasmus Mundus Master in International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development (ILGSPD) is a collaborative and multidisciplinary degree delivered by the University of Glasgow, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), the University of Tartu, Radboud University, Leuphana University of Luneburg, and the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

ILGSPD is designed to train the next generation of lawyers and policy-makers with the ability to navigate the political context of international law, and the comprehensive knowledge needed to engage with the issues of global security, peace and development. It is funded by the European Commission as an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree.

For more information about ILGSPD, please visit the programme’s website: https://globalsecuritylaw-erasmusmundus.eu