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The series focuses on the theme of “character” and is hosted by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a former Senior Fellow at Jackson, and inspired by his recent book on the subject.

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.

Impact & Innovation, a podcast hosted by Professor Teresa Chahine, faculty director of the Social Innovation Initiative (SII), recently interviewed Josh Trautwein, founder of About Fresh.

The fourth cohort of the Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship included a Fijian climate negotiator, a Namibian legislative advisor, and a Filipino battery-technology entrepreneur.

Students and faculty from the Jackson School’s Schmidt Program participated in an exchange that featured panels on the role of AI in national defense across the maritime, ground, aerial, cyber, and space domains.

Yale Law professor Harold Koh and former Pentagon official Rheanne Wirkkala examined Congress’s diminishing role in foreign affairs, arguing that legislative inaction has increasingly concentrated foreign policy power in the executive branch.

During a Blue Center event, Icelandic Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir discussed Iceland’s role within NATO and the Arctic, and her rapid rise from Jackson School graduate to the world’s youngest serving head of government.

Nine years after graduating from Yale Jackson, Kristrún Frostadóttir returned to New Haven as Prime Minister of Iceland — and the world's youngest sitting head of government — for a fireside chat with Blue Center for Global Strategic Assessment director Phil Kaplan.

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.

Elhanan Miller on the power of religious and cultural dialogue in building bridges between Jewish and Muslim communities, and how Elhanan’s Arabic-language media project aims to foster empathy across deep political divides.