Identity, Conflict, and Displacement: Rethinking Gender-Based and Sexual Violence During War

Nov. 18, 2025
12:00PM - 1:30PM
SLB Room 124
Open to the Yale Community

This panel brings together scholars and practitioners to explore the intersections of gender-based violence, conflict, and forced displacement. Drawing on research and fieldwork from diverse contexts, participants will examine recent advances in scholarship on conflict-related sexual violence and its role in forced displacement, the differential effects of identity on wartime experience, and reflect on innovations and challenges in global policy responses.

Panelists:

  • Graeme Reid is the United Nations Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, as well as lecturer at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University
  • Elisabeth Wood is the Crosby Professor of the Human Environment and Professor of Political Science and International & Area Studies at Yale University
  • Samuel Ritholtz is a post-doctoral research fellow in politics at All Souls College, University of Oxford

Lunch will be provided.

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Schell Center for International Human Rights