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The Jackson School’s Peacebuilding Initiative will host a conversation with Beatrice Fihn, who will share lessons from negotiating the nuclear ban treaty and opportunities for action today. The conversation will be moderated by Jackson School lecturer Federica Du Pasquier.

An expert on international law, weapons governance and civil society mobilization, Fihn is the director of Lex International Fund, a philanthropic fund focused on supporting and developing international law. She is the former executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaign coalition that works to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. Fihn has worked for more than a decade to convince governments, parliamentarians and international organizations to come together and work collectively for global governance solutions, presenting at the United Nations, the European Parliament, the World Economic Forum, the Munich Security Conference and SXSW. She has been featured or profiled on CNN, The New York Times, Time, and Bloomberg.

This event is open to the Yale community.