Federica Du Pasquier

Federica Du Pasquier is a humanitarian diplomat, lawyer, and innovator. She spearheads a GESDA initiative at the intersection of science, technology, and the future of peace and war. Federica is also a lecturer on Law and Global Affairs at Yale University, and is leading a reflection on revitalizing international law. Prior to this, Federica spent close to a decade at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), contributing to its dialogue with conflict parties in Ukraine, Ethiopia, Syria and the Occupied Palestinian Territory and to its legal outreach at the UN in New York. For three years, she worked closely with the ICRC President on creating diplomatic opportunities for humanitarian action in some of the world’s most acute crises. Federica holds degrees from the universities of Harvard and St Gallen. She speaks English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, and Arabic – and is passionate about finding new ways to prevent, manage, and resolve conflict.

Cara Fallon

Cara Kiernan Fallon is a senior lecturer in global health and the director of undergraduate studies (DUS) of the Global Health Studies Program at the Jackson School of Global Affairs. Her research analyzes the production of health disparities, the marginalization of the elderly and disabled from basic frameworks of health, and chronic disease in global health history. Her current book project, Healthy Forever, examines the history of cultural aspirations and medical innovations for healthy aging in the U.S. and the world. Her work has been supported by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Smithsonian Institutes, and the Consortium for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology. Cara holds a PhD in the history of science from Harvard University and an MPH from the Yale School of Public Health. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was also appointed as a Fellow in the Center for Public Health Initiatives and a Clark Scholar at the Penn Memory Center. She earned a BA from Yale in history of science/history of medicine, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Mark Freeman

Mark Freeman is the executive director of the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) and a leading expert in political transitions and high-level peace negotiations with more than 30 years of experience. He is regularly consulted for advice on crisis management and conflict resolution. He has worked in countries including Colombia, Bolivia, Bosnia, Burundi, Kenya, Morocco, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Turkey, and Zimbabwe. Freeman is the author of Necessary Evils: Amnesties and the Search for Justice (Cambridge, 2010) and Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness (Cambridge, 2006), and the co-author of Negotiating Transitional Justice (Cambridge, 2020), which draws upon his years as an adviser inside the Colombian peace talks in Havana.

Josip Glaurdić

Josip Glaurdić is a professor of political science at the University of Luxembourg and a scholar of democracy, governance, and the political legacies of conflict, whose research focuses on how war, political violence, and unresolved institutional arrangements shape democratic accountability, electoral competition, and state capacity over the long term. He was the principal investigator of a €1.5 million European Research Council Starting Grant for the Electoral Legacies of War project, and previously held fellowships at the University of Cambridge, including a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. He earned his Ph.D. in political science (with distinction) from Yale University in 2009.

Suna Hanöz-Penney

Suna Hanöz-Penney’s work involves building collaborative partnerships, while she manages the transfer and implementation of AÇEV’s educational programmes to local organizations in numerous countries including Cambodia, Tanzania, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Brazil. She designs and supervises early intervention programs for children and families implemented at both national and international levels. Suna is a Fulbright Scholar, holds a dual MA in early childhood education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. She also holds dual BA degrees in early childhood education and psychological guidance and counseling from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.

Sergio Jaramillo

Sergio Jaramillo is a a philosopher and classicist with degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, the University of Toronto, and the University of Heidelberg. Jaramillo served as Colombia’s High Commissioner for Peace and National Security Advisor under President Juan Manuel Santos. As High Commissioner, he led the secret negotiations with the FARC that produced the General Agreement of 2012, and then co-led the four years of public negotiations in Havana that ended with the signing of the Final Peace Agreement on November 24, 2016. He is currently president of Fundación Acordemos in Colombia and peace negotiations advisor based in Brussels.

Damir Kapidžić

Damir Kapidžić is professor of comparative politics at the Faculty of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where his research examines how democratic and authoritarian politics are institutionalized in contexts of ethnic conflict, power-sharing, and democratic innovations. As a consultant, he designs deliberative processes and advocates for citizens’ assemblies, working with the Council of Europe, the United Nations Office for Project Services, and the European Union. He has previously served as a Weatherhead Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar.

Qusai Khraisha

Qusai Khraisha is a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. His research and teaching sits at the intersection of global health and peacebuilding, with a focus on displaced and conflict-affected populations. Specifically, he examines how the effects of protracted displacement are carried across generations and how strengthening intergenerational relationships can support peacebuilding. He applies artificial intelligence to scale this work in fragile and humanitarian settings. Qusai holds a PhD in psychology from Trinity College Dublin and a master’s in war and psychiatry from King’s College London and brings over a decade of experience serving and advising humanitarian organisations.

Hélène Landemore

Hélène Landemore is the Damon Wells ’58 Professor of Political Science at Yale University and a Faculty Fellow at Yale’s Institute for Social and Policy Studies, where she founded a research program on Citizens’ Assemblies. She is also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. She completed her doctorate in political science at Harvard University in 2008, and is the author of Democratic Reason (Princeton University Press, 2013), Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the 21st Century (Princeton, 2020), and Debating Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2021). Her current book, Politics Without Politicians, proposes civic lotteries as a pathway for everyday citizens to govern as temporary stewards of the common good, drawing on ancient Athenian practices and contemporary citizens’ assemblies.

Richard Marcantonio

Richard Marcantonio is an assistant professor of environment, peace, and global affairs at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, where his work focuses on regenerative livelihoods, environmental management and policy, environmental violence, and peacebuilding. He is the author of Environmental Violence: In the Earth System and the Human Niche (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and lead co-editor of Environmental Violence Explored (2024), also from Cambridge. He is additionally a U.S. Marine combat veteran and holds a Ph.D. in peace studies from the University of Notre Dame.

Ensar Muharemović

Ensar Muharemović is a political scientist specializing in comparative politics, political discourse, and post-conflict governance. His research focuses on democratization, peacebuilding, and the political legacies of war, with particular attention to Bosnia and Herzegovina, EU enlargement, and post-conflict institutional settings. He studies how political narratives, institutional design, and elite strategies shape public understandings of constitutional politics. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Luxembourg in 2024.

Katie Murphy

Katie Murphy is the interim director of the Moving Minds Alliance, a global multi-stakeholder alliance of more than 40 organizations working together to drive the policies, financing, and collective action needed to ensure young children affected by crisis and displacement receive sustained, holistic support to thrive. She also serves as global practice lead and director of research for early childhood development at the International Rescue Committee, where she leads strategy, evidence generation, and innovation across the organization’s early childhood portfolio in humanitarian and fragile contexts. Katie has over 20 years of experience advancing early childhood development, education, and sustainable development in crisis-affected settings. She began her career as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador and has since played a leading role in major global initiatives, including the development and expansion of IRC’s early childhood programming in humanitarian contexts and the award-winning Ahlan Simsim initiative supporting young children affected by the Syria crisis. She holds a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary human development and an M.P.H. from the University of Pennsylvania, an Ed.M. from Harvard University, and a bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University.

Branka Panic

Branka Panic is the founding director of AI for Peace, a U.S.-based think tank ensuring artificial intelligence benefits peace, security, and sustainable development, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University. She is a Stimson-Microsoft Responsible AI Fellow, a member of UNESCO Women4Ethical AI, and a senior advisor on AI to the German Federal Foreign Office, as well as a Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina. Recognized as one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2022, she holds an M.A. in international development policy from Duke University and an M.S. in international security from the University of Belgrade.

Catherine Panter-Brick

Catherine Panter-Brick is the Bruce A. and Davi-Ellen Chabner Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global Affairs at Yale University. Her work focuses on peacebuilding and mental health in war-affected settings, with long-term research on Afghan and Syrian refugee families advancing intergenerational approaches to child and adolescent development and social cohesion. She leads initiatives that link research with practice and policy; at Yale, she co-directs the Peacebuilding Initiative, directs the Global Health Studies Program, and leads the Program on Conflict, Resilience, and Health. She received the Lucy Mair Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute for excellence in applying anthropology to the recognition of human dignity. She publishes widely in scientific journals and produces policy briefs for practitioners and decision-makers in global health and peacebuilding. Her interdisciplinary work integrates anthropology, global health, and peace and conflict studies to inform policy and practice in conflict-affected settings, contributing to international discussions at the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank. Her collaborative research with Syrian refugee families on the biological and intergenerational signatures of trauma features in the documentary Terror and Hope: The Science of Resilience.

Lisa Schirch

Lisa Schirch is the Richard G. Starmann, Sr. Professor of the Practice of Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, with more than 30 years of experience in peacebuilding research, policy advocacy, practice, and teaching. Her most recent book, Social Media Impacts on Conflict and Democracy: The Tech-tonic Shift (Routledge, 2021), maps how digital technologies drive polarization and extremist narratives; her current research centers on “peacetech” and digital peacebuilding. A former Fulbright Fellow in East and West Africa, she is the author of eleven books, a senior research fellow at the Toda Peace Institute, and formerly served on U.S. State Department working groups on religious actors, diplomacy, and peacebuilding.

David Simon

David J. Simon is the assistant dean for graduate education as well as a senior lecturer at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University. He also serves as the director of Yale’s Genocide Studies Program. Simon’s research focuses on mass atrocity prevention and post-atrocity recovery, with a particular focus on cases of mass atrocity in Africa, including those in Rwanda and Cote d’Ivoire. He is co-editor of Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age: Memorialization Unmoored (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2020, with Eve M. Zucker), and co-editor of the Handbook of Genocide Studies (Edward Elgar, 2021, with Leora Kahn). He leads the Genocide Studies Program’s Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era initiative, which addresses how digital technology has influenced the commission of mass authorities, as well as efforts to prevent them ex ante and to memorialize them ex post. He has served as a consultant for various United Nations offices, including the Office of the Special Advisor for the Prevention of Genocide. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA and a B.A. from Princeton University.

Bonnie Weir

Bonnie Weir is a senior lecturer and assistant dean for undergraduate education at the Jackson School of Global Affairs. She is the founding co-director of the Peacebuilding Initiative at Yale University and co-director of the Human Rights studies program. Weir’s research focuses on political violence and post-conflict politics with a focus on Northern Ireland. Her current projects investigate whether and how sectarianism affects political behavior and the consequences of minority rights provisions. Weir teaches courses on civil conflict, terrorism, and The Troubles and post-conflict politics in Northern Ireland. Previously, Weir was a senior lecturer of political science and served as director of undergraduate studies for the Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale. She is a visiting scholar at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast.