April 3—Saumitra Jha will explore the challenges of building resilient inter-ethnic peace around the world, an increasingly difficult task in nations and communities with less experience navigating a diverse setting.
Date
April 3, 2024
Time
7:00—8:30 PM PT
Location
Los Altos Library, 13 S San Antonio Rd, Los Altos, CA 94022
Hosted by
Commonwealth Club World Affairs Peninsula Chapter
Category
A key challenge that many nations face in the 21st century is to build societies that are not only able to peacefully accommodate increasing ethnic diversity, but also leverage its potential benefits. This is not necessarily a straightforward task. With 82.1 million people around the world forcedly displaced due to persecution and conflict in 2020, as well as widespread economic migration, the challenge of building resilient inter-ethnic peace is one faced not only by societies that have been diverse historically, but increasingly in nations and communities with less experience navigating a diverse setting. Yet, the challenge of building resilient inter-ethnic peace, while modern, is also very old, and communities around the world have addressed it, with varying degrees of success, for centuries.
Speaker:
Saumitra Jha is an Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Affairs (FSI).
Schedule:
Doors open: 6:30 PM PT
Program: 7:00 PM—8:30 PM PT
This program is free to attend, and pre-registration is not required. Seating capacity is limited to 100, so please arrive early to ensure a seat.