On March 6, 2026, Senegalese women’s rights activist Awa Fall-Diop was awarded the Anne Klein Women’s Prize. In her speech, she highlights how closely global inequalities, colonial legacies, and feminist struggles are intertwined.

Game theory is built on a structure of calculations seeking to optimise for a desired outcome. Nonviolent resistance – the approach of choice for two major 20th-century human rights figures, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr – can be interpreted through game theory to understand how the power of peace can sometimes trump the power of violence and force.

Inherited and intergenerational trauma produce complex effects at the individual, familial, and societal levels that can impact willingness to participate in public discourse and protest. In the Lebanese context, the mothers of Gen Z daughters have firsthand experience of high-stakes military conflict that often shape their perceptions of danger. Memories of war inform both mothers' responses to later events, such as the 2020 Beirut port explosion and the way they seek to protect their daughters from similar trauma. Daughters, in turn, inherit aspects of their mothers' trauma but nevertheless seek to engage with means of breaking cycles of violence.