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 Legal Counsel, directed the Ceasefires Practice Area, and advised state and non-state parties in peace negotiations. He successfully opened PILPG’s office in Libya and led its office in Kosovo. He is now co-founder and Chief Negotiation Officer of Expeditionary, an applied AI research and advisory company reimagining negotiation design and execution.

The conversation explores how negotiation landscapes have evolved, the challenges of high-stakes, multi-stakeholder environments, and how AI can augment, but not replace, human judgment. Tyler walks through lessons from his career, including strategy design, stakeholder mapping, mitigating blind spots, and building trust in conflict-affected and corporate environments. The episode also highlights how Expeditionary, the AI research and advisory company he co-founded, supports intelligence synthesis, coordinated execution, and ethical decision-making in negotiations, while keeping humans central to the process.