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Janine di Giovanni is a multi-award-winning journalist and author, and a Senior Fellow at Yale University鈥檚 Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.听For this event, she will be sharing the darkest sides听of our recent history which, unfortunately, echoes what is happening on the ground in Ukraine as we speak.
Janine writes long format reportage, mainly about war and the politics of conflict.听 She was awarded a听 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship and is a public speaker and a foreign policy analyst. In 2020, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her their highest non-fiction prize, the Blake Dodd.听
Di Giovanni was a war reporter for nearly three decades, from the first Palestinian intifada in the early 1990s to the siege of Sarajevo; the Rwandan genocide; the brutal wars in Sierra Leone, Somalia, Ivory Coast, and Liberia to Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. She reported extensively in听Iraq pre and post-invasion as well as covering covered both the Arab Spring听and the conflict in Syria.听 Her fieldwork for her current book takes her to Gaza, Iraq, Egypt, and Syria. 听 听
Her focus is on war crimes; global terrorism; refugee issues and sexual violence during wartime. Her goal is to document evidence on the ground that can later be cited in war crimes tribunals.听 She works alone,听often undercover, and in closed and difficult countries. She is the former Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and has won more than a dozen awards, including the National Magazine Award, two Amnesty International Prizes and the prestigious听Courage in Journalism Award.
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