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This year's cohort of World Fellows includes a Ukrainian journalist, a Chinese environmentalist, and a Kenyan orchestral conductor.

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.

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 study led by Catherine Panter-Brick uses visual mapping to reveal how understandings of everyday peace differ across stakeholder groups in conflict-affected societies. Originally published by Yale News.

Yale Jackson faculty presented new research on "Everyday Peace" in Sarajevo, examining how institutional trust, information integrity, and civic tone shape peace in daily life 30 years after the Dayton Accords.

The 2026 cohort, chosen from about 4,700 applicants, spanned a Cypriot former justice minister, an Indian UN official focused on Ukraine, and a Sierra Leonean writer leading national war remembrance work.

Peace Fellow Kholood Khair examines Sudan’s war, the international failures to stop it, and the urgent need to elevate civilian voices in the push for justice, democracy, and lasting peace.

Catherine Panter-Brick and Bonnie Weir of Yale Jackson School joined researchers and practitioners at the UN General Assembly to present evidence that war trauma alters gene expression across generations — and that early childhood investment can break the cycle.

On an episode of Disrupting Peace, a podcast produced by the World Peace Foundation, Panter-Brick discussed what it takes to nurture hope, resilience, and peace across generations.

The Venezuelan opposition leader, barred from office in 2024, led massive rallies against Maduro’s regime and became an internationally recognized symbol of resistance to authoritarian rule.