The Peace We Make: A Youth-Led Buffett Symposium
The Roberta Buffett Institute's 2025–26 Brave New Futures event series began with The Peace We Make: A Youth-Led Buffett Symposium.
Young people are leading global efforts to end conflict, defend human rights, and advocate for sustainable peace. This student-led symposium brought together activists, politicians, NGO leaders, and negotiators from across the world to explore how youth are transforming the future of peace and justice. The daylong program featured a special conversation with Nobel Peace Laureate Nadia Murad.
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00:00:00 | Opening Remarks
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Deborah Cohen, Director of the Roberta Buffett Institute and Richard W. Leopold Professor of History, Northwestern University
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Giavanna Chopra and Liana Liu Ioannides, undergraduates at Northwestern University and members of the Institute’s Youth & Peacebuilding Working Group that organized this Buffett Symposium
00:10:48 | Opening Plenary with Claire Hajaj, Executive Director of Inter Mediate
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Moderated by Liana Liu Ioannides
01:00:41 | Panel Discussion: Youth Architects of Peace
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Alana Gebremariam, Belarusian pro-democracy activist and elected member of the Coordination Council facilitating a democratic transfer of power in Belarus
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Amos Kiyingi, Founder and National Director of Uganda Unites
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Cristina Rosero-Arteaga, Senior Legal Adviser for the Center for Reproductive Rights’ Latin America & Caribbean Program
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Moderated by Giavanna Chopra
02:23:25 | Conversation with Nadia Murad, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of Nadia's Initiative
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Moderated by Wendy Pearlman, Jane Long Professor of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University