At a time of deep global uncertainty and conflict, the Center for Peace and the Global Good puts Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs at the forefront of scholarship and practice dedicated to building a more just and stable world, equipping rising leaders with the vision, knowledge, and practical skills to build that world and to lessen, or even avert, future conflict.
Launched in Fall 2026, the Peace Center aligns with Yale Jackson's mission and values in its dedication to academic rigor, interdisciplinary study, research, teaching, and policy engagement on peace and human welfare. It will significantly expand the school’s current academic offerings around humanitarian themes. This strategic investment will balance and complement the school’s already well-established programs on diplomacy, security, and statecraft, allowing for a wider range of opportunities for Jackson master’s students, global affairs majors in Yale College, and the whole student population across the university.
The latest news from the Peace Center
Yale Jackson launches the Center for Peace and the Global Good
The center will support work on a wide range of issues, such as peacebuilding, human rights, global health, conflict resolution, social entrepreneurship, and inclusive economic prosperity.
Poet Pádraig Ó Tuama speaks on language and mediation at inaugural Peace Center event
Drawing on two decades of peace work in Northern Ireland, Ó Tuama argued that art — not strategy — may be peacebuilding's most underused resource.
Philippe Bolopion on the ‘perfect storm’ of factors challenging the human rights movement
The executive director of Human Rights Watch recently spoke at the Yale Jackson School about the “dire” challenges facing human rights advocacy and the hope he holds moving forward.
Yale peacebuilding fellows reflect on summer fieldwork around the world
Four Yale students spent their summers as Peacebuilding Initiative student fellows, documenting how communities in Bosnia, Ecuador, Georgia, and Northern Ireland recover from conflict and pursue lasting peace.
Initiatives
The Center for Peace and the Global Good supports a number of initiatives in its commitment to strengthening cross-disciplinary collaboration at Yale Jackson and across the university.
Human Rights
The Center of Peace and the Global Good's Human Rights Initiative promotes both the study of human rights and preparation for careers in the field. The Initiative promotes critical engagement with the concept of human rights by fostering important conversations about its basis, scope, and application in a wide variety of global contexts.
Peacebuilding
The Peacebuilding Initiative advances faculty and student research, develops and supports curriculum and internship opportunities, and promotes collaboration between scholarship, practice, and policy on a wide range of peacebuilding-related issues, from conflict resolution to reconciliation.
Global Health
The Global Health Initiative provides students and faculty with opportunities to engage in global health research, academic training and extracurricular engagement, and supports interdisciplinary conversations across health-related issues in peace and social cohesion.
Social Innovation
The Social Innovation Initiative convenes students, practitioners, and scholars working on social innovation to address the world’s most pressing problems. We define social innovation as finding a novel solution to a complex social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than existing solutions, disrupts the status quo, and creates value on a societal rather than individual level.