Mkhaimar Abusada, Buffett Institute Visiting Scholar and Visiting Lecturer in Political Science and the Middle East and North African Studies Program, was quoted in a piece reflecting on President Donald Trump's recent plans to force Palestinians out of Gaza. Read Abusada's perspective on why "Palestinians are against this and would rather live in tents and in the rubble of their destroyed homes than leave."

“The governance of AI is absolutely critical,” shared V.S. Subrahmanian, Buffett Institute Faculty Fellow and Professor of Computer Science at McCormick School of Engineering, at a recent Institute for Policy Research talk on AI policymaking. Subrahmanian was joined by McCormick visiting professor Barry O’Sullivan, a professor at University College Cork in Ireland, who shared how the European Union approaches AI governance and policy.

As conflicts and climate crises proliferate and intensify, countless families are being torn apart. Now, a group is exploring a DNA-based extragovernmental solution to help reunite those separated.

Sara Huston, co-lead of the Buffett Institute’s Global FamDNA Working Group and Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University and Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, was featured in "Nature" regarding the urgent need for an international DNA database designed specifically to aid the reunification of living family members.

Our 2024–25 winter quarter Buffett Symposium on AI and Geopolitics convened leading strategists, researchers and policymakers to discuss the transformative opportunities and profound challenges that AI poses in geopolitics. Speakers offered insights on how AI technologies influence global power dynamics, national security, economic development, international relations and more, exploring the role that international governance and cooperation will play in its future.

Matej Jungwirth, a Buffett Institute Graduate Research Fellow, is a PhD candidate in Political Science in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. His research explores the impacts of territorial loss and displacement, aiming to illuminate the experiences of displaced communities and guide the development of policy solutions. Learn more about Matej in this profile by The Graduate School.

At the 13th annual Global Health Day organized by the Havey Institute for Global Health, two Buffett Undergraduate Research Fellows, Emily Lynott and Ella Kuffour, presented research they conducted under the guidance of their faculty mentor, Professor Faith Summersett Williams. Learn about their research on health inequities in Switzerland in this Global Health Day recap.