The Kroc Institute’s research in 2007-08 focused on these programs: sanctions and security, which explores non-military means of enforcing international norms; peace processes and peace accords, which seeks to understand why so many peace agreements collapse or deteriorate; religion, conflict, and peacebuilding, which seeks to elucidate the complex role of religion in modern conflict; strategic peacebuilding, which is pioneering a complementary set of practices focused on transforming a society from a state of violence to one of just peace; and social change and social movements, which studies the impact and dynamics of social mobilization and transnational movements that contribute to political and social change.
Scott Appleby was on sabbatical leave working on two projects: a study comparing 20th-century Catholic and Muslim responses to religious freedom, pluralism, and democracy; and a book demonstrating the relevance of peace studies for mainstream U.S. foreign policy. He was appointed cochair, with Abner Mikva and Richard Cizik, of the Chicago Council on Global Affair’s Policy Study of Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy. He authored “Building Sustainable Peace: The Roles of Local and Transnational Religious Actors” in Religious Actors in World Politics (Oxford University Press, 2008). At the University of Tuebingen, Germany, he delivered the closing keynote at the conference “Resisting the Instrumentalization of Religious Traditions in Political Conflicts and Promoting their Peacemaking Potential.” The conference was based on his book, The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000). His keynote address to the 2008 convention of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, “Lifting the Siege: The Promise of Catholic Higher Education in Church and Society,” was published in Origins. His essay, “Decline or Relocation? The Catholic Presence in Church and Society, 1950-2000,” was published as a chapter in The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholicism since 1950 in the United States, Ireland, and Quebec (Catholic University of America Press, 2007).
Joe Bock received a Notre Dame faculty research grant for a book on early warning and early response to violence. He was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Committee of Development in Practice, Oxfam Great Britain’s peer-reviewed journal of relief and development.
David Cortright published Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cambridge University Press, 2008). He co-edited Uniting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat (MIT Press, 2007). With George A. Lopez and Alistair Miller, he received a grant from CORDAID, the Netherlands-based international development agency, for the project “Counter-Terrorism and Development: Avoiding Adverse Consequences.” He consulted with the foreign ministries of Canada, Greece, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, and Sweden about UN sanctions policy and a proposed new process to improve Security Council measures. He coauthored “UN Security Council Sanctions” in The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations (Oxford University Press, 2007) and “The Sanctions Era: Themes and Trends in UN Security Council Sanctions Since 1990” for The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice Since 1945 (Oxford University Press, 2008). He wrote “The Right Fight” in Peace Not Terror (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008). His articles “Eight Points about Iran’s Nuclear Program” appeared in The Christian Century (June 2008) and “The Movement against War in Iraq” in Nonviolent Social Change: the Bulletin of the Manchester College Peace Studies Institute (November 2007).
Hal Culbertson coauthored Reflective Peacebuilding: A Planning, Monitoring, and Learning Tool Kit (Kroc Institute/Catholic Relief Services, 2007).
John Darby received a grant from the United States Institute of Peace to establish the Peace Accords Matrix, an online resource for comparing peace accords worldwide. He cowrote Peacebuilding after Peace Accords (Notre Dame Press, 2006). He wrote “Peace and Reconciliation Processes” for the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. He wrote “Violence and Peace Processes” in The Practice of War (Routledge). He served as an independent expert for “Civil Society and Peacebuilding,” an international comparative study of peace processes in 13 countries. The study was initiated by the World Bank’s Social Development Department and is based at the University of Geneva.
Larissa Fast published “Characteristics, Context, and Risk: NGO Insecurity in Conflict Zones” in Disasters (2007). She co-authored “Humanitarian Agenda 2015: The State of the Humanitarian Enterprise” (March 2008) for the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University. She coauthored the final report of the “Security Perceptions Survey,” the product of a grant from the United States Institute of Peace. The second edition of Conflict, her co-edited textbook about conflict analysis and resolution, was published by Continuum.
Robert Johansen served as Acting Director of the Kroc Institute. He led the development of the Kroc Institute’s new Ph.D. program and served as director of doctoral studies. He published “The E-Parliament: Global Governance to Serve the Human Interest,” in the Widener Law Review (Widener University School of Law, 2008).
Asher Kaufman’s article “Too Much French but a Swell Exhibit: Representing Lebanon at the 1939 New York World’s Fair," appeared in the British Journal for Middle Eastern Studies (April 2008).
John Paul Lederach provided consultation, training, and support for national peace processes and community-level peace initiatives in Nepal, Colombia, the Philippines, Bolivia, and other countries. His partners and clients in this work included Catholic Relief Services (the Philippines and Colombia), the Carter Center (Bolivia), the Secretariado Pastoral Social of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Colombia and Justapaz, a Mennonite peacebuilding organization in Colombia. He also worked with the United Religions Initiative to apply the ideas from his book The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace (Oxford University Press, 2005) to interreligious dialogue processes in the Philippines, India, Ethiopia, and Northern Uganda as part of a pilot project to develop a wider replicable initiative. He received support from the Fetzer Institute for a pilot initiative to develop different approaches for mentoring apprentices to people working as reflective peace practitioners in Thailand and the southern cone of Latin America. He coauthored Reflective Peacebuilding: A Planning, Monitoring, and Learning Tool Kit (Kroc Institute and Catholic Relief Services, 2007). He was profiled as “The Peace Professor” in the Chronicle of Higher Education (September 14, 2007). His book The Moral Imagination was published in Spanish for distribution in Latin America (by editorial Norma) and in the Basque Country, Spain (by Editorial Bakaez).
George A. Lopez was installed as the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor of Peace Studies. He won the Frank O’ Malley Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching from Notre Dame’s student government. He co-edited Uniting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat (MIT Press, 2007). He cowrote “Sanctions as Counter-Genocide Instruments” in The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide (Transition Books, 2007). He published “Effective Sanctions: Incentives and UN-U.S. Dynamics” in the Harvard International Review (Fall 2007). He coauthored “UN Security Council Sanctions,” in The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations (Oxford University Press, 2007) and “The Sanctions Era: Themes and Trends in UN Security Council Sanctions Since 1990” for The United Nations Security Council and War: The Evolution of Thought and Practice Since 1945 (Oxford University Press, 2008). He wrote “Matching Means with Intentions: Sanctions and Human Rights” in The Future of Human Rights: U.S. Policy for a New Era (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). He provided expert testimony on “The Efficacy of U.S. and UN Sanctions on Iraq” for the United States Government Accountability Office. He was appointed to the publications committee of the American Political Science Association and served as chair of the Leonard M. Rieser National Fellowship Program of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. With David Cortright and Alistair Millar, he received a major research grant from CORDAID, Netherlands, titled “Counter-Terrorism and Development: Avoiding Adverse Consequences.”
Dan Myers served as the Kroc Institute’s director of research and faculty development. He won the University of Notre Dame’s Sheedy Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Rashied Omar published “The Right to Religious Conversion: Between Aposty and Proselytization” in the Kroc Institute Occasional Paper series.
Daniel Philpott was a research fellow with the Alexander Humboldt Foundation with the Hertie School of Government and Social Science Research in Berlin, Germany, where he conducted research on the ethics of political reconciliation. He wrote “Explaining the Political Ambivalence of Religion” in the American Political Science Review (August 2007); “What Religion Brings to the Politics of Transitional Justice” in the Journal of International Affairs (Winter 2007); and “Religion, Reconciliation, and Transitional Justice: The State of the Field” for the Social Science Research Council (October 17, 2007). He published “Reconciliation: An Ethic for Responding to Evil in Global Politics” in Evil and Moral Responsibility in World Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and “Global Ethics and the International Law Tradition” in The Globalization of Ethics: Religious and Secular Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Gerard F. Powers published “Our Moral Duty in Iraq” in America (February 18, 2008). He coordinated the Conference on the Future of Catholic Peacebuilding at Notre Dame.
Jackie Smith published Social Movements for Global Democracy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). She coauthored The World Social Forums and the Challenge of Global Democracy (Paradigm Publishers, 2008). Her paper, “Explaining Participation in Regional Transnational Social Movement Organizations,” coauthored with Dawn Wiest, a former Kroc postdoctoral scholar, won second place in an international research competition sponsored by the World Society Foundation in Zurich, Switzerland. The paper was published in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology. She coauthored two book chapters: “The Global Compact and Its Critics: Activism, Power Relations, and Corporate Social Responsibility” in Discipline and Punishment in Global Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and “New Politics Emerging at the United States Social Forum” in The World and US Social Forums: A Better World is Possible and Necessary (Brill, 2008). She was appointed director of Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change and is leading a team that is assembling and analyzing a dataset on transnational social change organizations and their wider networks.
Susan St. Ville joined the Kroc Institute as lecturer in trauma, gender, and peacebuilding. She holds a Ph.D. in systematic theology from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree in social work. She has worked as a therapist since 2002.
Peter Wallensteen continued in his role as director of the Conflict Data Program, a searchable database of armed conflicts worldwide, at Uppsala University in Sweden. He coauthored “United Nations Arms Embargoes: Their Impact on Arms Flows and Target Behaviour,” an analysis of the 27 embargoes imposed since 1990. Funded by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the report was a collaboration with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. He received an honorary medal from the Swedish city of Uppsala for his commitment to peace and peace research. He co-edited Third Parties in Conflict Prevention (Stockholm, 2007). He wrote a chapter on dilemmas in post-war democratization in From War to Democracy: Dilemmas of Peacebuilding (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and a chapter on armed conflict to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Yearbook (Oxford University Press, 2008).
