Distinguished lecturer, T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Deputy High Commissioner in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, will deliver the Gruber Lecture.

Dr. Rima Salah, Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale Child Study Center who is the former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, joins a distinguished panel that will address ways in which the UN has changed its approach to addressing conflict over the last seven decades. Dr. Salah, appointed member of the UN high level panel to improve its peace operations, shares her extensive experience in the field as well as her expertise in sociology, cultural anthropology and education that will broaden the discussion.