Event Type: Students
Finding Common Ground in Polarized Times
Laura Krause is a ’24 Yale World Fellow and an expert on social cohesion and democracy. She is the Founding Director of More in Common Germany, an organization dedicated to understanding the forces driving people apart, identifying common ground, and countering “us vs. them” narratives. Laura is part of the organization’s international executive team, working with colleagues from France, Poland, the UK, the US, and Brazil. Founded in response to polarization and growing threats to liberal democracies, More in Common seeks to identify shared challenges and effective solutions across countries. Laura partners with diverse groups across German society – from grassroots initiatives and political institutions to media organizations and businesses…
More InformationA Fireside Debate: Why Taiwan Matters and the US Election
Join 2024 Yale World Fellow Xu Heqian as he moderates a fireside debate on Why Taiwan Matters and the US Election. Panelists include Howard Shen (Director KMT office in DC), Fanny Chao (Former Assistant Analyst, Tsai Ying-wen administration of Taiwan), and Ouyang Bin (Associate Director, Center on US-China Relations, Asia Society). As Taiwan’s geopolitical importance continues to grow, understanding the island’s trajectory—both in its role in maturing democracy in East Asia and its position in the global technology supply chain—has become increasingly vital. These factors, along with Taiwan’s role in the context of U.S.-China relations, are central to global stability. As the outcome of the upcoming U.S. presidential election will…
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…
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Business. Purpose. People. A discussion on how the next generation of leaders is redesigning organizational models to drive change and create economic value by prioritizing people and collective healing. Short bio: Hector Verdugo is the Associate Executive Director of Homeboy Industries, where he has worked for over 16 years, overseeing day-to-day operations, training, and mentoring. He is also a public speaker on gang prevention and re-entry, and serves on several non-profit boards and advisory, including Anti Recidivism Coalition, Legacy LA and LA VoicePICO. Working with “those left behind without hope focusing on healing and re-entry with impact creating a positive ripple effect not only around the city of Los Angeles,…
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2024 World Fellow Anna Biriukova and 2018 World Fellow Leonid Volkov, from their work with the Anti-Corruption Foundation, will discuss What Russians Think of Putin and War.
More InformationNation Building and Development: Challenges and Opportunities in Asia's Youngest Democracy
2024 Yale World Fellow, Fausto Ximenes, will be the Pierson College Tea guest speaker. His talk with be: Nation Building and Development: Challenges and Opportunities in Asia’s Youngest Democracy. Mr. Ximenes is Oxfam International Country Director for Timor-Leste where he 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, Fausto was a Development Economist and Senior Policy Advisor to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), a Graduate Researcher with the University of Oxford’s Changing Character of War (CCW) Centre where he undertook research and…
More InformationGlobal Leadership in Practice
Mr. Ximenes is a 2024 World Fellow and Oxfam International Country Director for Timor-Leste where he 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, Fausto was a Development Economist and Senior Policy Advisor to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), a Graduate Researcher with the University of Oxford’s Changing Character of War (CCW) Centre where he undertook research and developed a case report on the Philippines’ Moro conflict, a Senior Access to Justice Manager on a USAID project, as well as a Human…
More InformationCivil Society, Elections and Democracy in Africa. Voting and Obstacles: Navigating Africa's Challenging Journey to Democratic Elections—A focus on Zimbabwe
Jonathan Edwards Tea with Ms. Babra Bhebe, 2024 World Fellow from Zimbabwe. She is the Executive Director of the Election Resource Centre (ERC), a civil society organization that stands to promote electoral democracy in Zimbabwe and across the African continent. She has worked in the governance and human rights sector for more than 18 years. Since joining the organization in 2021, the ERC has under her leadership extended its influence to South Africa and Angola where it has been instrumental in building the capacity of political parties on various election related issues. Her reputation as an election expert is demonstrated by the multiple international election observation missions she has been…
More InformationGuaranteeing Legal Aid & Access to Justice in post-conflict societies- the case of Timor-Leste
2024 World Fellow Nino Ximenes, will discuss legal aid and access to justice in post-conflict societies by sharing the example of his home country of Timor-Leste. Mr. Ximenes is Oxfam International Country Director for Timor-Leste where he 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, Fausto was a Development Economist and Senior Policy Advisor to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), a Graduate Researcher with the University of Oxford’s Changing Character of War (CCW) Centre where he undertook research and developed a case…
More InformationOn the Frontlines of Climate Violence: Journalist Peter Schwartzstein in conversation with Yale World Fellows Leon McCarron and Roba El Husseini
Peter Schwartzstein is an award-winning British-American journalist and researcher, who has reported on water, food security, and particularly the conflict-climate nexus across more than thirty countries in the Middle East, Africa, and occasionally further afield. He mostly writes for National Geographic, but his work also regularly appears in the New York Times, BBC, Foreign Affairs, and many other outlets. He is a Global Fellow with the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program, a TED fellow, and a fellow at the Center for Climate and Security. Based in Athens, Greece, he consults for a range of UN agencies and iNGOs. The Heat and the Fury is his first book, which…
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