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Four Yale students spent their summers as Peacebuilding Initiative student fellows, documenting how communities in Bosnia, Ecuador, Georgia, and Northern Ireland recover from conflict and pursue lasting peace.

From a UN border post in Tajikistan to a hydropower investment desk in Nairobi, this year's MPP candidates spent their summer putting Yale Jackson training to work around the globe.

Two Yale Climate Fellows from India and the Philippines turned a fellowship conversation into a sodium ion battery pack housed in an enclosure made from recycled chip packets.

Affinity Africa, Ghana’s leading digital banking platform, has released a new report in collaboration with the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and Yale’s International Leadership Centre examining the drivers and impacts of cash dependency in Africa and the steps required to address it.

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.

2025 Climate Fellows publish report on the unseen dimensions of climate change: mapping the nuance, experiences and untold stories of the climate crisis.

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.

Agnes Sjöblad ’26 details her summer research on the reasons for her native Sweden’s drastic shift from military neutrality to joining NATO. She found that the shift wasn’t as drastic as she first thought.

Yale Climate Fellow Rafael Pastor publishes a piece in the Yale Daily News on resilience, optimism and hope that continues to offer solutions even in the face of overwhelming challenges.

The majority of the world’s migrants are hosted in the Global South, often subjected to few resources and potential conflict. Maheen Iqbal ’25 researched “South-South” migration in Morocco and was surprised to find “a relatively progressive stance on integration” — and new ways for Western nations to approach immigration policy.