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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.

At the 2026 Munich Security Conference, the Blue Center and NATO’s Allied Special Operations Forces Command convened defense and intelligence leaders to discuss strategies for countering Russian hybrid threats and grey-zone activities below the threshold of war.

Three Jackson School students traveled to COP30 in Belém, Brazil, where they supported national delegations on climate justice, loss and damage, and conservation finance — and returned with renewed conviction that climate cooperation is still possible.

Yale Jackson research scholar Graeme Reid reflects on his work as a UN independent expert, drawing on global advocacy, country visits, and diplomatic engagement to assess the shifting politics of LGBTQ rights worldwide.

Brooks joins Yale as part of an initiative to foster respectful debate and bridge the academy and society at large.

Why are Christian churches in parts of Africa defending liberal democracy? Kate Baldwin’s new book shows how religious institutions back democratic systems to protect their independence.

Aleena Gul, Pranav Pattatathunaduvil and Jordan Van Doren were selected from a pool of more than 5,800 candidates for the prestigious fellowship.