The 2025 Kenner Lecture

Please join the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs for a conversation with Hauwa Ibrahim, an international human rights and Shariah law attorney with significant academic and government experience. Ms. Ibrahim is the founder of the Peace Institute, which pursues international peace through education and leadership initiatives serving women, youth, and vulnerable populations around the world. Ms. Ibrahim is an Envoy for the European Parliament (EU initiatives on girl child education), a member of the Council of Human Rights of the International Bar Association, and is a sought-after speaker on human rights, especially related to gender, justice, and interfaith dialogue.

Ms. Ibrahim will discuss the role mothers’ soft power plays in building peace and slowing down radicalization and the flow of extremist ideologies around the world. She is currently researching and working on “Mothers Without Borders: The Phenomenology of Mothers’ Soft Power in Building Peace” with groups of women across dozens of countries in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, while building bridges of cooperation between mothers in different regions and developing collaborations between religious and non-religious communities where extremism has become an issue. Chipo Dendere, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, will facilitate the discussion.

No advance registration is required; tune in to WellesleyLIVE at the date and time to watch live. This event will be recorded and posted to the Albright Institute website.

The Kenner lecture is the Albright Institute's endowed fall lecture to introduce this year’s theme, "Leadership in a Fragmented World." We thank Hyunja Laskin Kenner ’88 and Jeffrey Kenner for establishing the endowed fund that supports this lecture series.

Questions about the event? Please contact albrightinstitute@wellesley.edu.