Event Type: Law, Politics and Society
Rethinking U.S. Policy Towards Africa: Lessons from the Sudans and the Horn of Africa
The International Leadership Center will host a panel discussion on U.S. policy towards Africa, featuring U.S. diplomat Molly Phee, Sudanese researcher Raga Makawi, and writer Joshua Craze. Jackson professor Alden Young will moderate. Molly Phee is a senior U.S. diplomat known for her strategic leadership in navigating complex political and security challenges. She has led negotiations to end conflicts, build coalitions, and arrange humanitarian access across Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. She has operated effectively in insecure environments, collaborating with the U.S. military, USAID and other U.S. government agencies, the UN, international NGOs, foreign partners, and civilian stakeholders. Raga Makawi is the Sudan research coordinator, with a focus…
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The world is evolving rapidly. With sweeping shifts in global leadership, advancement of artificial intelligence, population changes, and social media, societal paradigms are quickly transforming. How do we make sense of this moment? What opportunities are there to shape it? What role does technology play? Join the Jackson Schoolâs Social Innovation Initiative as three former Yale World Fellows share the challenges and opportunities they are tackling as they innovate new solutions for Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Speakers include: Belabbes Benkredda, founder of Munathara Initiative, the Arab worldâs largest online and television debate forum highlighting voices of youth, women, and marginalized communities; Joshin Raghubar, serial technology and impact venture…
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The Jackson School Office of Alumni Affairs will host a virtual discussion on the impact of the U.S. presidential election on Russia’s war in Ukraine with Luke Johnson MA â18 and 2019 World Fellow Olena Sotnyk, moderated by Eric Sanderson BA â20. Luke Johnson is a Berlin-based journalist covering politics, media, and society in Central and Eastern Europe, primarily focusing on the War in Ukraine and its regional effects. He writes the newsletter Public Sphere for people trying to understand the crisis of democracy in the U.S. and abroad. His reporting and analysis have been featured in The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Columbia Journalism Review, Internationale Politik Quarterly, The Washington…
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2024 World Fellow and Oxfam International Country Director for Timor-Leste, Nino Ximenes, will discuss post-conflict development and reconciliation and the role of religion in Timor-Leste. As Oxfam International Country Director for Timor-Leste, Ximenes leads an international country team and strives, alongside local civil society partner organizations and communities, to tackle challenges of climate justice, gender equality and gender justice, inclusive economic development, and civic participation. Before joining Oxfam, Ximenes was a Development Economist and Senior Policy Advisor to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), a Graduate Researcher with the University of Oxfordâs Changing Character of War (CCW) Centre where he undertook research and developed a case report on the Philippinesâ…
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2024 World Fellow Charlotte Wang will discuss AI for energy and energy policy influence, hosted by the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. Wang is an expert in AI data-driven energy management and sustainability, with professional experience in clean energy and smart grid in China, the United States, Germany, and Russia. She is a serial entrepreneur and founded EQuota Energy in 2014. An AI-based data analytics SaaS company, EQuota provides grid management, energy optimization, and carbon management for energy intensive manufacturers and utilities to improve grid stability, reduce energy consumption, and carbon emission. EQuota serves utility groups, steel, chemical, and coal mining in China and Middle East and…
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The Schell Center for International Human Rights will host a panel on “Gender and Conflict” featuring 2024 World Fellows Roba El Husseini, Iraq’s Deputy Bureau Chief for Agence France Presse, and Priya Pillai, international lawyer and director of the Asia Justice Coalition. The panel will be moderated by Dina Francesca Haynes, executive director of the Yale Law School’s Schell Center for International Human Rights.
More InformationPursuing Justice for Mass Atrocities via Universal Jurisdiction
Panel discussion with Hayley Evans, Max Planck Institute (Recent Developments in Universal Jurisdiction for International Crimes), Priya Pillai, 2024 World Fellow (Avenues for Universal Jurisdiction for Myanmar Cases), and Janine di Giovanni, The Reckoning Project (Can Universal Jurisdiction Provide Justice for Ukraine?). Lunch will be served. Sponsored by the Yale MacMillan Center Genocide Studies Program.
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A panel discussion with Nathaniel Raymond, Director, Humanitarian Research Lab, Yale School of Public Health; Priya Pillai, Director, Asia Justice Coalition and 2024 Yale World Fellow; Karnig Kerkonian, International Lawyer, Armenian Delegation to the ICJ, and moderated by Claudia Flores, Director, Schell Center for International Human Rights at the Yale Law School. The panelists, representing Sudan, Myanmar, and Nagorno-Karabakh, will discuss accountability for forgotten crisis.
More InformationThe Far Right in Europe and Recent Elections: A Roundtable Conversation
Recent European elections have solidified a sharp rightward tilt in France, Germany, Austria, and the European Parliament, among others. As we approach a watershed US election, ESC Race, Migration, and Coloniality in Europe Working Group invites you to a discussion of how the instrumentalization of migrants and asylum seekers are intensifying racialization, the mainstreaming of white supremacy and anti-Blackness, but also strategies of resistance that seek to provide counter-histories to dominant narratives. Panelists include: Jonathan Bach (The New School) Ibrahim Bechrouri (John Jay College, CUNY) Fatima El Tayeb (Yale University) Laura Kristine-Krause (More in Common Germany; Yale World Fellow) Lunch with be provided. Reach out to sam.jones@yale.edu if you have…
More InformationCMES Lecture: Covering the Middle East: The Human Toll of Conflict
Journalist Roba El Husseini has spent the past decade working with the French news agency AFP in Beirut, covering war-torn Syria and crisis-hit Lebanon, relaying breaking news and resulting human tragedies. She has reported on numerous military operations and has deployed multiple times to Syria and Iraq to cover battles against the Islamic State group. Roba will discuss her process in covering the Middle East today: how to provide context to breaking news, and which emerging stories take precedence. She will be in conversation with author Leon McCarron whose most recent book is based on five years of reporting on the river Tigris in Iraq.
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