The Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab is pleased to announce the selection of five Notre Dame graduate students for its Tech Ethics Graduate Fellowship program. After a competitive application and evaluation process, the students--including the Kroc Institute’s Will O’Brien (Ph.D. student, peace…
Two Notre Dame undergraduate students, Garrett Pacholl (history and global affairs, peace studies concentration, class of 2024, and 2024 Student Peace Conference co-chair) and Linnea Barron (biology and peace studies, class of 2026), returned from a transformative…
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…
Kroc Institute Ph.D. candidate, Joséphine Lechartre (peace studies and political science), won second place in the annual Shaheen Three Minute Thesis…
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…
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” --Albert Einstein, May 1946 On Tuesday, Jan.…
Call for abstracts due Feb. 16 Afghan scholars and practitioners from around the globe are invited to participate in an upcoming colloquium, “Generating a Political Process in Afghanistan,” to take place at the University of Notre Dame April 25-26. Organized by the American…
University of Notre Dame alumna Becca Blais, a recent Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient for her work at the intersection of data science and politics, has been named a 2023 Samvid Scholar. She is Notre Dame’s first Samvid Scholar and one of just 20 members of this year’s cohort, which...
The Notre Dame Student Peace Conference is back, and this year, it focuses on breaking down barriers with the theme "Peace by Piece: Disrupting Dualities in Peacebuilding." Join us April 12-13, 2024, here at the University of Notre Dame.
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Five University of Notre Dame alumni have been recognized as Forbes 30 Under 30 recipients. Forbes unveils its 30 Under 30 list each fall, spotlighting the 30 most accomplished individuals in the United States under the age of 30 in various industries. The list features emerging talent in 20 fields, including...
The Board of Trustees of the University of Notre Dame has elected Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., as the University’s 18th president, effective June 1. He will succeed Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., who…
The aim of Chapter 6 of the United Nations Charter is both broad and thoughtful. It requires countries with disputes that have the potential to lead to war to first seek solutions through peaceful methods. These include “negotiation,…
When Professor Laurie Nathan, director of the Kroc Institute Mediation Program, was a South African graduate student, he was engaged in the anti-apartheid struggle – and fiercely opposed to mediation. He believed that mediators should…
“We have heard the long-expressed hope – spoken with great passion by popes, bishops, and other Church leaders, especially in the West – that the future of the Catholic Church is in Africa,” said Rev. Kenneth Amadi, a Kellogg doctoral…
As the world tunes in to news coverage about the unfolding Israel/Palestine tragedy, Afghanistan shoulders the aftermath of a catastrophic natural disaster -- but without media fanfare. Late in the morning of Oct. 7, the first 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook Afghanistan’s Herat region. About…
When his family moved from the United States back to Bogotá, Colombia, Matthew Bocanumenth suddenly gained a front-row seat to a historic peacebuilding project. The administration…