Yale Jackson launches the Center for Peace and the Global Good

The Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs today announced the establishment of the Center for Peace and the Global Good, made possible by a major gift from John '67 and Susan Jackson. The center will support faculty, visiting fellows, scholars, and students working on a wide range of issues, such as peacebuilding, human rights, global health, conflict resolution, social entrepreneurship, and inclusive economic prosperity.  

At a time of deep global uncertainty and conflict, the center is expected to position the school 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.

Senior Lecturer Bonnie Weir will serve as the center's inaugural executive director. Its initiatives will focus on a wide range of subjects and issues, positioning the center to play a coordinating, interdisciplinary role at Yale. It will fund course development, programming, internship opportunities, and other academic offerings around humanitarian themes. 

“This gift gives Yale Jackson the resources to turn scholarship on peace and the global good into work that shapes policy and practice, not just the academic conversation,” said Jim Levinsohn, Charles W. Goodyear Professor of Global Affairs and dean of the Jackson School. “We expect this center to become a place where research and study translate directly into impact — for policymakers, for practitioners, and for the students who will carry this work forward.”

Weir and the center's other leaders will spend the fall semester planning its structure and programming, with the aim of having the center fully up and running in spring 2027.

Read coverage in Yale News.