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Drawing on two decades of peace work in Northern Ireland, Ó Tuama argued that art — not strategy — may be peacebuilding's most underused resource.

In the first installment of the Fall 2026 Yale Conversations series, Presidential Senior Fellow David Brooks traces a history of human exploration, from Homo erectus to philosopher John Stuart Mill and Hawaiian navigator Nainoa Thompson.

The Permanent Questions, a new podcast from Yale Jackson Presidential Senior Fellow David Brooks, launched on September 13, with new episodes appearing every Sunday after that.

Zimbabwean democratic activist and Yale World Fellow Evan Mawarire opens up on courage, leadership— and whether the internet can be a force for positive change.

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

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.

A group of young Ukrainian women joined Yale World Fellows Federica Du Pasquier and Leon McCarron on a “peace walk” in Northern Ireland, using nature and dialogue to reflect on trauma, identity, and the meaning of peace.

Just a generation ago, Filipinos lived under the dictatorial rule of Ferdinand Marcos. Elisa Cruz ’26 spent last summer in Manila to research the ways cultural institutions are fighting the nation’s collective denialism over these events to adequately address systemic social issues.

2016 Yale World Fellow Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir “InnSæi: Heal, revive and reset with the Icelandic art of intuition,” available in the United Kingdom in March 2024. Hrund shared her insights on the art of flourishing, leading, and innovating in an age of distraction and planetary crisis.