Event Type: Panel Discussions and Roundtables
Yale Cyber Leadership Forum | AI Ethics and Safety
The 2022 Yale Cyber Leadership Forum will take place as a series of hybrid in-person and virtual discussions, bringing together an impressive array of attorneys, technologists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and academics to explore the national security challenges associated with artificial intelligence and machine learning. A collaboration between Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and Yale Law School’s Center for Global Legal Challenges, the Forum is directed by Oona A. Hathaway, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law. This year’s Forum, Bridging the Divide: National Security Implications of Artificial Intelligence, will explore how advances in AI have the potential to dramatically alter the cybersecurity threat landscape. The Forum will…
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Migration Crisis in the Belarusian Borderland
Featuring: -Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram, Polish human rights lawyer and 2021 Yale World Fellow -Mauro Mondello, freelance reporter, war correspondent, documentary filmmaker; and 2020 Yale World Fellow -Maksimas Milta, MA Candidate in European & Russian Studies, Yale; and professional in higher education management, policy analysis, and media of Lithuania and Belarus Moderated by Dr. Bradley Woodworth, Program Manager of Baltic Studies Program at the MacMillan Center, Yale Sponsored by the following MacMillan Center at Yale programs and area studies councils: Baltic Studies Program; European Studies Council; Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses; Council on Middle East Studies Register to Attend on Zoom: https://bit.ly/3FySvrS Biographies: Mauro Mondello is a former Yale…
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Political Competition as a Trigger for Instability in Africa
This webinar will explore how political competition devolve to destabilizing conflicts in Africa and the peculiar elements that make these trend rampant. It will interrogate various conflicts in the region and the nature of interventions that were deployed to address them. It will further explore the relevant steps and reforms needed to prevent these conflicts. It will also rely on firsthand account of mediators and political leaders in the panel to analyze the place of leadership and altruism in ensuring national stability and healthy democratic competition. Speakers: HE Olusegun Obasanjo, Former President Federal Republic of Nigeria (AU Special Envoy to Ethiopia) HE Mme Aminata Touré, Former Prime Minister of Republic…
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Understanding the Role of Regional Bodies in Addressing Democracy Decline in West Africa
The African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), by their constituting documents and protocols, affirm the commitment of the region to promote human rights, democracy, and good governance. The AU Charter on Democracy, Election and Good Governance and the ECOWAS Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance have clear obligations on members state to protect and promote democracy. The regional bodies (ECOWAS and AU) have been carrying out the job of promoting democracy with mixed result. The recent trajectory in the region suggest that democracy is on the reverse gear in the region. This webinar is designed to interrogate the role of the regional organization…
More InformationCommunity-Based Conservation in Papua New Guinea: Challenges and Opportunities
Ambroise Brenier, 2020 World Fellow, was the Country Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Papua New Guinea from 2016 to 2021. He will talk about the in’s and out’s of working with government and indigenous communities, from tackling illegal logging, to addressing unsustainable uses of marine and forest resources. Ambroise will discuss the particular challenges the conservation community is facing, and opportunities to increase conservation impact, in this spectacular and unique part of the world.
More InformationFireside Chat with Abdi Ismail
Join 2021 World Fellow Abdi Ismail for a fireside chat about his career working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Most recently stationed in Yemen, Abdi was in charge of managing the security of ICRC staff, assets, and operations in a very volatile security environment. Open to Yale students.
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From Rainbow Madonnas to Rainbow Families: LGBTQ Protest Movements in Poland and Hungary
The discriminative politics and hateful rhetoric of the Hungarian and Polish authoritarian governments have put the local LGBTQ communities under increased attacks in recent years. Polish municipalities have declared themselves “LGBT-free zones” and prosecuted the protesting activists. Meanwhile, the Hungarian parliament revised the constitution to legally establish that in a family “the mother is a woman, the father a man,” and also passed a law that bans the “promotion” of sexual orientation in schools and in other public institutions. This panel, with the participation of artists, activists, and scholars, will discuss the different ways in which these illiberal states limit the rights and affect the everyday lives of the LGTBQ…
More InformationLast in Line? The Struggle for LGBTQ Rights in Peru, within the South American Context
Join Alberto de Belaunde, 2021 World Fellow, for a discussion on LGBTQ rights in Peru and South America. Open to Yale students.
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Moonlight Conversation on Loss, Grief, and Healing
Come and enjoy storytelling, music, and dancing with 2021 World Fellows Udo Jude Ilo and Korto Reeves. Open only to Yale students, registration at bit.ly/yasa-moonlight.
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Re-Claiming Memory: Creative Expressions as Catharsis, Redemption & Paths to Memorialization
Join a conversation with Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Korto Reeves, Udo Jude Ilo, and Hyppolite Ntigurirwa. This event will bring speakers with a wealth of experience to a discussion on healing justice and peace building. It will focus on how citizen-led initiatives influence memory to shape their understanding of history and their society’s future. The speakers will center on non-traditional processes and “artivism” and how it has driven and defined memorialization. The discussion will focus on the experiences of work in Sierra Leone, South Africa, Rwanda, Liberia, and Nigeria.
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