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Date and Location

March 23, 2026
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM ET
Malkin Penthouse

Contact

617-631-5315
Building Peace: Lessons from the Frontlines of Negotiation with Neha Sanghrajka

Join us for an intimate conversation with Neha Sanghrajka, Kenyan negotiator, mediator, and scholar whose career has shaped some of the most consequential peace processes of our time — from working alongside Kofi Annan during Kenya's 2007 post-election crisis to serving as a key architect of the landmark 2019 Maputo Accord that ended decades of conflict in Mozambique. Currently a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center at Harvard University and Senior Advisor at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and Board Member of the Kofi Annan Foundation and the Berghof Foundation and previously a Yale Peace Fellow. Neha brings a rare combination of frontline mediation experience and rigorous academic insight to the urgent questions defining global peace-making today: How do we build trust between parties who have every reason not to talk? What role should the Global South play in leading peace processes? And what does it take to turn a ceasefire into a lasting accord? 


Moderator: Mathias Risse, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy and Director of the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights

Speakers and Presenters

Neha Sanghrajka, Fellow at the Weatherhead Center at Harvard University and Senior Advisor at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Organizer

Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights