Kroc Institute faculty members are experts in various aspects of peacebuilding and international affairs. They welcome questions from the media. Our faculty fellows also offer expertise in various disciplines.

Faculty experts

Scott Appleby, John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute and Professor of History. Expertise: the roots of religious violence and potential of religious peacebuilding; fundamentalism; history of and current issues within the Catholic Church. Contact: appleby.3@nd.edu or 574-631-5565.

Joseph Bock, Director of External Relations. Expertise: Religious leadership and violence prevention; early warning and early reponse to violence, ethnic conflict, humanitarian relief and development. Contact: jbock@nd.edu or 574-631-5799.

David Cortright, Research Fellow; president of the Fourth Freedom Forum. Expertise: economic sanctions and incentives; United States and United Nations policy in Iraq; nonviolent social change. Contact: dcortright@fourthfreedom.org or 574-631-8356.

Hal Culbertson, Executive Director, attorney and instructor. Expertise: Management of international non-governmental organizations. Contact: culbertson.1@nd.edu or 574-631-8832.

John Darby, Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies. Expertise: ethnic conflict, especially in Northern Ireland; the management of peace processes; peace accords; post-agreement peacebuilding. Contact: darby.3@nd.edu or 574-631-0997.

Larissa Fast, Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution. Expertise: humanitarian security; development and conflict; conflict transformation. Contact: lfast@nd.edu or 574-631-7096.

Robert Johansen, Senior Fellow and Professor of Political Science. Expertise: U.S. foreign policy and international relations; the United Nations, peace, and security; international ethics; international human rights; war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the International Criminal Court. Contact: johansen.2@nd.edu or 574-631-6971.

Asher Kaufman, Assistant Professor of History. Expertise: politics and society in Lebanon and Syria; Israeli policy in the Middle East; boundaries and territoriality in Syria, Lebanon, and Israel; nationalism in the Middle East. Contact: Kaufman.15@nd.edu  or 574-631-8213.

John Paul Lederach, Professor of International Peacebuilding. Expertise: Active in sustainable reconciliation and the design and conduct of conflict transformation programs throughout the world (Central America and the Andean region, the Horn of Africa and West Africa, Northern Ireland, Tajikistan and the Philippines, among others). Contact: JPBus@aol.com or 574-631-0934.

George A. Lopez, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. Professor of Peace Studies. Expertise: United Nations; state violence and coercion, especially war, terrorism, economic sanctions, and gross violations of human rights. Contact: lopez.1@nd.edu or 574-631-6972.

Daniel J. Myers, Director of Research and Faculty Development; Professor of Sociology. Expertise: Riots; racial conflict; movements; poverty; the diffusion of violence. Contact: dmyers@nd.edu or 574-631-7695.

Rashied Omar, Research Scholar of Islamic Studies and Peacebuilding. Expertise: Islam, religion and violence; interreligious dialogue and peacebuilding; and post-conflict peacebulding in South Africa. Contact: omar.1@nd.edu or 574-631-7740.

Daniel Philpott, Associate Professor of Political Science. Expertise: Ethics of reconciliation; approaches to past injustice (truth commission, trials, etc.); religion and global politics; conflict reconciliation in Kashmir; humanitarian intervention; sovereignty; self-determination and secession; the justice of war. Contact: philpott.1@nd.edu or 574-631-7667.

Susan St. Ville, Lecturer in Trauma, Gender, and Peacebuilding. Expertise: Trauma and peacebuilding; gender issues in war and peace; psychological effects of violence. Contact: sstville@nd.edu or 574-631-2628.

Gerard F. Powers.  Director of Policy Studies.  Expertise:  Ethical and legal norms governing the use of military force; ethics and international affairs; religion, conflict and peacebuilding; Catholic social teaching. Contact: gpowers1@nd.edu or 574-631-3765.

Jackie Smith. Associate Professor of Sociology. Expertise: Transnational organizing and activism, globalization and protest, social movements and democracy, United Nations and civil society. Contact: jsmith40@nd.edu or 574-631-2640.

Peter Wallensteen, Richard G. Starrman Sr. Research Professor of Peace Studies, Kroc Institute, and and Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala, Sweden. Expertise: Peace and peacebuilding; causes of war; conflict resolution; conflict prevention; economic sanctions; U.N. affairs; Scandinavian events. Contact: e-mail: wallensteen.4@nd.edu, and phone 574-631-0935.

 

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