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The 2026 Yale Peacebuilding Colloquium, “Peace, Power, and the Global Good,” convened scholars and practitioners to share evidence, test ideas, and prepare work for the United Nations General Assembly.

A senior lecturer at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs and Department of Economics, Amand explores stablecoins, international trade, and why the plumbing of global finance is suddenly a policy question.

What does it take to rebuild a society fractured by distrust, populism, and eroding civic bonds? In his third Yale Conversations lecture, author and columnist David Brooks traces the shifting cultural paradigms of the past 70 years to diagnose how America arrived at its current crisis.

During a Blue Center Co-Lecture on the Theory and Practice of Statecraft, the FBI veteran and the legal scholar examined how U.S. law enforcement operates in the foreign policy arena.

A Yale Jackson lecturer and economist, Hasanbasri explores why “who owns what” is harder to answer than it sounds — and why getting it right matters for women’s well-being across lower-income countries.

Participants in the International Leadership Center’s Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship gathered on campus in March 2026 for a week of dialogue and professional development.

Participants in the International Leadership Center’s Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship gathered on campus in March 2026 for a week of dialogue and professional development.

Yale students traveled to China in March 2026 for a week-long intensive program, the latest iteration of an exchange with students from China's Renmin University focused on topics ranging from the future of Sino-American relations to the implications of cutting-edge advances in AI and robotics technologies.

The February 9, 2026 event, “The World from the Periphery,” explored Bosnia and Herzegovina’s position in geopolitics — as a small country, a generation removed from war and genocide, still searching for stability.

A new public forum aiming to foster respectful debate and intellectual exchange across differences, Yale Conversations are presented by the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs in collaboration with the office of the university president and led by Presidential Senior Fellow David Brooks.