The Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) Project has long been a premiere source of comparative data on peace agreements and their implementation, and now the project has launched a new, fully-accessible website to help global researchers, policymakers, and peacebuilders take full advantage of this unique resource.
In a new article published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, three University of Notre Dame researchers preview the development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) early warning system meant to monitor the ways manipulated content online (i.e., altered photos, misleading memes, edited videos) can lead to violent conflict, societal...
Notre Dame senior Maria Rossi and junior Mitchell Larson are serving as co-chairs of the Notre Dame Student Peace Conference planning committee. In this interview, they reflect on their hopes for the conference, the importance of peace studies and what they are learning through the conference planning process.
Bina D’Costa, M.A. 1997, has been selected to receive the Kroc Institute’s 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award.
On January 30, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Catholic Peacebuilding Network were among the co-sponsors of a lecture by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi on the Catholic Church and nuclear disarmament. The lecture took place at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.
From December 25-30, 2019, students and faculty from the University of Notre Dame converged with madrasa (Islamic seminary) graduates from India and Pakistan for a week of intensive teaching, dialogue, and exploration in Doha, Qatar.
Victoria Nyanjura, a current Master of Global Affairs, International Peace Studies student at the Keough School of Global Affairs, is one of two recipients of the 2019 Ginetta Sagan Award from Amnesty International USA. The award, named after former honorary Amnesty International USA board chair and human rights activist Ginetta...
In her newly published book, “Marxism and Intersectionality,” Ashley Bohrer explores the connections between oppression and exploitation by drawing on the socioeconomic tradition of Marxism and intersectionality, the theory that the overlap of various social identities, such as race, gender, sexuality, and class, contributes to the ways systemic oppression and...
Richard “Drew” Marcantonio, a current doctoral student in peace studies and anthropology, has received a prestigious three-year Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship.
In Catherine Bolten’s recently published book, "Serious Youth in Sierra Leone," she presents findings on generational preconceptions and their impact on young men in Makeni, Sierra Leone. Her research has implications for everything from development to post-conflict reconstruction to how millennials are perceived and engaged around the world.
From November 7-10, 2019, over 450 attendees from 37 different countries gathered at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, for a conference on the state of the field of peace research and practice, and the nexus between...
When they graduate this week, Meg Spesia and Juan Fernandez will both become the third member of their family to complete a supplementary major or minor in the undergraduate peace studies program at the University of Notre Dame.
Implementation of South Sudan’s 2018 peace agreement faces critical challenges at the six-month mark, according to an April 11 report released by three researchers at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, within the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. Although both parties in South Sudan are...
Cornel West, professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard University and a prominent public intellectual, will deliver the 25th annual Hesburgh Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy at 4 p.m. April 12 (Friday) in O’Laughlin Auditorium in Saint Mary’s College’s Moreau Center for the Arts.
Melinda Davis, a psychology and peace studies major from New Orleans, has secured a competitive postgraduate placement with the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the U.N. She is one of four 2019 summer interns selected through a highly competitive global search process.
Valarie “Vat” Kamatsiko is spending two months at the University of Notre Dame as the 2019 Kroc Institute-CRS Fellow. Kamatsiko is the Africa Peacebuilding Technical Advisor with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and is based in Kampala, Uganda.
Notre Dame seniors Monica Montgomery, a political science major with a supplementary major in peace studies, and Madeleine Thompson, a theology major with a supplementary major in peace studies and minor in Catholic Social Tradition, are serving as co-chairs of the conference planning committee. Here they reflect on their hopes...
P. Carl, B.A. 1988 and M.A. 1990, has been selected to receive the Kroc Institute’s 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award. Throughout his career, Carl has explored the power of story and the arts to create policy, to facilitate dialogue, and to transform people and systems. He is a longtime artistic director...
Kroc's own Madhav Joshi and Louise Olsson write on the status of gender considerations within the peace agreement implementation process in Colombia for PVGlance: "Strengthened efforts to realize the gender stipulations of the Peace Agreement can help set new standards for future peace processes elsewhere. As Resolution 1325 turns 20, Colombia...
Associate Professor Ann Mische writes about the democratic crisis in Brazil for the Mobilizing Ideas blog: "Brazil is the country of the future – 'always in the future' (as Brazilians typically add with a laugh). The future of the world looks very bleak right now. Can Brazil help to re-direct world-historical currents...
The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize goes to Dr. Denis Mukwege and Ms. Nadia Murad, two brave individuals that have stood up to sexual violence as 'the helper' and as the 'witness,' as expressed by the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Ms. Berit Reiss-Andersen. The prize gives visibility to sexual violence in...
For the second summer in a row, students and faculty from the University of Notre Dame converged with madrasa (Islamic seminary) graduates from India and Pakistan for two weeks of intensive teaching and dialogue in Dhulikhel, Nepal (an hour outside of Kathmandu). Drawn by Notre Dame’s Madrasa Discourses project, the...
Ernesto Verdeja, associate professor of political science and peace studies, was invited to participate in the third meeting of the Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes (GAAMAC) network in Kampala, Uganda, from May 23-25.
Sixty-four faculty from seven countries around the world attended the tenth annual Summer Institute (SI) for Faculty at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies from June 11-15. The SI is a week-long training for academics who want to launch or strengthen peace studies programs at...
Over 90 veterans, scholars and activists from around the world will gather May 22-24 at the University of Notre Dame for “Voices of Conscience: Antiwar Opposition in the Military.” This is the first major academic conference to explore the impact of military antiwar movements, especially during the Vietnam and Iraq...
The recently published book Healthy Conflict in Contemporary American Society offers new insight into the productive and positive roles that conflict can play in the midst of religious intolerance and moral disagreements in contemporary American society. Drawing together original research conducted by Jason A. Springs over the course of 13 years,...
Elton Skendaj, M.A. '01, is returning to the 2018 Student Peace Conference, this time as a peace studies professor bringing his students to present their original research.
