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In this student perspectives piece, Global Affairs major Jad Abdel Nour ‘28 reflects on hosting the author of Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria — and collaborating with Yale Jackson students and faculty.

The second-year Masters in Public Policy student reflects on several days at the AI safety hub Lighthaven, where he and peers participated in an intensive residential program aimed at contributing to the AI safety and governance landscape.

In a piece first published on the Center for Democracy & Technology website, Yale Jackson MPP candidate Seiyoon Ko examines how advertising inside AI chatbots can turn intimate, ongoing conversations into personalized persuasion, and why labels and existing privacy protections fall short.

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.

In the first convening of the Science-Policy Interchange, experts Mary-Louise Timmermans and Ben Strong explored how rapid warming and sea-ice loss are transforming the Arctic Ocean, reshaping global climate systems, human activity, environmental risks, and geopolitics across the region.

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.

Members of the Deitz Family Initiative on Environment & Global Affairs report on the February 10th, 2026 session of the Science Policy Interchange featuring Elizabeth Yankovsky of Yale and Janos Pasztor, a former Assistant Secretary-General to the UN.

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.