July 19, 2012
Contact:

Renée LaReau, rlareau1@nd.edu, 574-631-5098

When Notre Dame peace studies students begin fall semester classes in August, they’ll enroll in some of the more than 50 peace-related courses in disciplines ranging from anthropology to political science to sociology.

Peace studies courses offered primarily to undergraduates include:  

  • Jerusalem: Peace or Apocalypse? (new) - Prof. Atalia Omer
  • Peace vs. Justice: What is ‘Justpeace’? (new) - Prof. Jason Springs
  • Hindu, Christian Interaction (new) - Prof. Bradley Malkovsky
  • Ideas and American Foreign Policy (new) - Prof. Andrew Bacevich
  • Nonviolent Social Change - Prof. David Cortright
  • Women’s Human Rights - Prof. Eileen Botting
  • Introduction to Islamic Civilization – Prof. Li Guo
  • Anthropology of War and Peace – Prof. Carolyn Nordstrom
  • Introduction to Peace Studies – Profs. Asher Kaufman and Larissa Fast
  • Aid and Violence – Prof. Larissa Fast
  • U.S. Foreign Policy – Prof. Nilay Saiya
  • Modern Middle East – Prof. Asher Kaufman
  • Rethinking Crime and Justice – Profs. Susan Sharpe and Ed Kelly

Peace studies courses offered primarily to master’s and Ph.D. students include:  

  • Trauma and Peacebuilding – Prof. Susan St. Ville 
  • Environmental Justice – Prof. Kristin Shrader-Frechette
  • Peacebuilding and Public Policy – Prof. Gerard Powers
  • Politics of Reconciliation – Prof. Daniel Philpott
  • Approaches to Conflict Transformation - Profs. Julie Macfarlane and Bernard Mayer
  • International Law – Prof. Mary Ellen O’Connell
  • Women’s Human Rights - Prof. Eileen Botting
  • Contemporary Conflict and Peace Processes – Prof. Madhav Joshi
  • Modern Genocide – Prof. Ernesto Verdeja
  • International Peace Research – Prof. Peter Wallensteen 
  • Strategies of Peacebuilding: Organizing the Field – Prof. George A. Lopez
  • Organizational Leadership for the Third Sector – Theresa Rieke-Kiely
  • Foundations in Peace Studies – Prof. George A. Lopez 

Notre Dame’s academic year begins on Tuesday, August 21, 2012.