Annual Conference 2025: Uniting Expertise and Community

Last year, we convened our Annual Yale Global Justice Conference under the theme Sustaining Justice: Food, Environment, and New Technologies, bringing together leading scholars, practitioners, and the ASAP community. The four-day conference (October 23-26) was held in hybrid format, with Friday, October 24 offering both in-person sessions at Rosenfeld Hall and digital participation, while the other conference days were available online.

The sessions sparked vital dialogue on some of our most pressing global challenges. We are delighted to announce that some of the conference recordings are now available on the Yale Global Justice Program YouTube playlist : Here











Another highlight of the conference was the presentation of winning essays from our 2025 twelfth Amartya Sen Essay Prize Competition, administered in partnership with Global Financial Integrity:

• First Prize ($3,000): Ekoja Solomon, "Deep Dive into Livestock Rustling: The Improvised Oil Well Fueling Under-Development, Animal Abuse and Terrorism in Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin"

• Second Prize ($2,500): Aremu Ololade Mustafa, "Old Ghost, New Shadows: Resource Curse Dynamics and the Growing Illicit Flows in Africa's Carbon Market"

• Second Prize ($2,500): Wasima Khan, "Ancient Riches, Modern Crimes: Illicit Financial Flows in Today's Global Art Market"

• Honorable Mention: God'sWill Dickson, "A Penny for One's Thoughts About the Future: Decentralized Prediction Markets and its Architectural Risks of Illicit Financial Flows"

Video presentations from our prize winners will be available later on our YGJP YouTube channel.