Gender and Conflict: A World Fellows Panel

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.

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Evening Chai with 2024 World Fellow, Sokny Onn

The Asian American Cultural Center (AACC) will host a conversation with 2024 World Fellow Sokny Onn, the Country Director of Epic Arts in Cambodia, who will share her journey of advocating for disability inclusion in Cambodia.

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The Role of Civil Society in Post-Conflict Reconciliation and Development

Graduate students at the Jackson School of Global Affairs will host a conversation with 2024 World Fellow Fausto “Nino” Ximenes. Before coming to Yale, Ximenes served as the Country Director of Oxfam International in Timor-Leste where he strived, together with more than twenty civil society organization partners, stakeholders and communities, in tackling challenges of climate justice, gender equality, just economic development and civic participation. Prior to that, Ximenes served with various civil society & international organizations including the UN. Ximenes’ academic and career paths are heavily influenced by the tumultuous independence journey of his native Timor-Leste, as well as the post-conflict national-building and development. Food will be provided.

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Film Screening: Navalny

The World Fellows program will host a screening of the Oscar-winning film “Navalny,” which details the 2020 assassination attempt of Russian opposition leader and former World Fellow Alexei Navalny. The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Christo Grozev, an investigative journalist with Bellingcat; Leonid Volkov, 2018 World Fellow and Navalny’s chief of staff; and Anna Biriukova, 2024 World Fellow and a pollster at the Anti-Corruption Foundation. This event is open to the public, but registration is requested.

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Investigative Insights into Putin's Worldwide Malign Networks

2024 World Fellow Anna Biriukova will lead a discussion with investigative journalist Christo Grozev (Spiegel, The Insider, ex-Bellingcat). Grozev’s investigations into the identity of the suspects involved in the 2018 poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal earned him and his team the European Press Prize for Investigative Journalism. He played a crucial role in identifying the details of Alexei Navalny’s poisoning in 2020. The talk is open to the public.

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Pursuing 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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Accountability For Forgotten Crises

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.

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Lon Marum People of the Volcano (Film screening and conversation)

2024 World Fellow Soraya Hosni will be joined by 2019 World Fellow Alex Munoz for the screening of her film “Lon Marum: People of the Volcano.” The film will be followed by discussion with the audience.

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Crossroads of Innovation: Policy, Science and Entrepreneurship in Latin America

The Council on Latin America and Iberian Studies will host a panel on the Crossroads of Innovation: Policy, Science and Entrepreneurship in Latin America. Panelists include 2024 World Fellows include Gabriel Silva, Gonzalo Moratorio, and Leticia Jauregui. The panel will be moderated by Prof. Ligia Fabris Campos.

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Building Inclusive Societies in Post Conflict Context: Cambodia and Timor-Leste

The World Fellows Program will host a panel discussion on building inclusive societies in post conflict context with 2024 World Fellows Sokny Onn and Fausto Ximenes.

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