Kroc Welcomes Spring 2018 Visiting Research Fellows
The Kroc Institute is pleased to announce that two scholars will begin their terms as visiting research fellows during the spring 2018 semester.
The Kroc Institute is pleased to announce that two scholars will begin their terms as visiting research fellows during the spring 2018 semester.
Fr. Dave Kelly once managed to gather together a police officer whose house had been burglarized and the young man who had broken in. Convening a “peace circle” with the victim, the offender, and other community members, Kelly and fellow participants talked for hours about what led up to the crime, as...
The Kroc Institute is pleased to announce that the ScreenPeace Film Festival will be presented Feb. 9 to 11 (Friday to Sunday) in the Browning Cinema of the DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts.
Zachary Elkins will explore a varied set of historical data in order to understand the allegedly disruptive power of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Part of the ScreenPeace Film Festival 2018
Part of the ScreenPeace Film Festival 2018
Anastasia Kushleyko is a regional legal adviser for the International Committee of the Red Cross, where she leads efforts to integrate and promote international humanitarian law.
Brian Klein is a PhD student studying Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, studying the political economy of energy and extractive industries.
Anna Walther is an associate attorney at Martinez, Aguilasocho & Lynch, APLC, in Bakersfiled, California, where she advocates for the rights of farmworkers.
Adriana Quiñones Giraldo is a regional advisor for the Ending Violence Against Women initiative of the Regional Office for Americans and the Caribbean at UN Women, the United Nations entity that supports the empowerment of women and girls.
Peace studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that draws on political science, sociology, history, anthropology, theology, psychology, philosophy, and other fields to:
Peacebuilding becomes strategic when it works over the long run and at all levels of society to establish and sustain relationships among people locally and globally. Strategic peacebuilding connects people and groups “on the ground” (community and religious groups, grassroots organizations, etc.) with policymakers and powerbrokers (governments, the United Nations, corporations, banks, etc.) It aims not only to resolve conflicts, but to build societies, institutions, policies, and relationships that are better able to sustain peace and justice.