The annual peacebuilding colloquium hosted at the Yale University Jackson School of Global Affairs brings together scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to highlight issues at the forefront of peacebuilding, human rights, and global health.

The 2026 colloquium, Peace, Power, and the Global Good, examines how peace is negotiated, brokered, and sustained across shifting landscapes of political power, technological change, and intergenerational responsibility. Participants include peace and conflict experts from institutions including the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator, the Institute for Integrated Transitions, AI for Peace, the Early Childhood Peace Consortium, the Moving Minds Alliance, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Sarajevo, the Université du Luxembourg, and Yale University, as well as scholars and practitioners from across the world.

Participants will present and discuss key innovations and insights across four sessions: evolving partnerships at the intersection of law, science, and technology; intergenerational pathways to peace; citizen agency and participatory democracy in post-conflict societies; and the role of artificial intelligence in the future of peace. This conference builds upon past colloquia: the 2022 Strategies for Sustainable Peacebuilding, the 2024 Building Peace Across Generations, and the 2025 The Dynamics of Peace.