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The 2024 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference, themed “Peace by Piece: Disrupting Dualities in Peacebuilding,” is set to take place on April 12-13, 2024, at the University of Notre Dame. This year’s conference received the second-highest number of student submissions in its history. Registration…
LeChartre Wins Second Place in Shaheen 3MT Competition
Kroc Institute Ph.D. candidate, Joséphine Lechartre (peace studies and political science), won second place in the annual Shaheen Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, which took place Feb. 28. She was one of nine finalists competing for $4,500 in prize money.…
Nobel laureate, democracy advocate Maria Ressa to speak at Keough School
Maria Ressa, a Filipino-American journalist and Nobel laureate known for her work to defend democracy and combat disinformation, has been named a distinguished policy fellow in the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. A former CNN bureau chief and correspondent in Jakarta and Manila, Ressa co-founded the...
Keynoter for the 2024 Student Peace Conference Announced
Sa’ed Atshan has been tapped as the keynote speaker for this year’s Notre Dame Student Peace Conference, “Peace by Piece: Disrupting Dualities in Peacebuilding.” An associate professor of peace and conflict studies and anthropology at Swarthmore College, Atshan will present “Sexualities and Queer Imaginaries Across the Middle East and North...
Opportunity for doctoral students to study international mediation in Oslo, Norway
The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) have announced the call for applications for their annual summer Ph.D. course on international mediation. “International Mediation: Theory, Cases and Skills,” will take place in person in Oslo, June 10-14, 2024. Now in its fourth year,...
Events
Israel’s New War: Causes, Consequences, and Regional Dynamics
The Middle East is now embroiled in a new conflict. On Oct. 7th, Hamas launched a devastating campaign of terror targeting communities in the south of Israel. In its aftermath, Israel has launched a new military offensive in the Gaza Strip - a campaign that, more than four months on,...
2024 Distinguished Alumni Award Lecture
This year's honoree is Jorge Vargas Cullell (M.A. ‘94), director of Estado de la Nación, a Costa Rica-based center of thought that conducts research on sustainable development.
He will present, "The Uneasy Relationship of Peace, Democracy and Human Development: Reflections on the Hopes and Disappointments of Central America's Peace Agreements."…
Master of Global Affairs International Peace Studies Capstone Conference Presentations
Learn about the research of our Master of Global Affairs students concentrating in international peace studies when they present their capstone projects to classmates and Keough School faculty!
Schedule of Presentations
12:30 p.m.Evaluation of the Tigray Peace Agreement in the Ethiopian Civil War: A Conclusion or a Prologue?…
The Multiple Forms of Micro-Dynamic Agency at Work in Conflict-Affected Societies
Colombia, Lebanon and Northern Ireland served as sites for a recent research project that examined conflict associated with micro-dynamics of everyday inter-group encounters. Drawing on the project's findings, Roger MacGinty will highlight how everyday agency can be identified and categorized. Furthermore, research shows that with this comes the development of...
The Escalating Crisis in Haiti: What is Needed from a Humanitarian and Human Rights Perspective
As the political and economic crisis escalates in Haiti, one that has inevitably led to Haitians fleeing in search of livelihood and safety, this panel will explore the historical context of the crisis with a particular focus on U.S. intervention in Haiti, U.S. immigration policy and treatment of Haitian refugees....
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