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Peace in the Time of a Pandemic: Video Shorts

In the midst of the ongoing global pandemic, how are efforts to build peace and address the causes of violent conflict and injustice impacted? 

New video shorts will be released via Facebook and on this page each Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. EDT (3:00 p.m. GMT).Throughout the summer, join faculty members and graduate students from the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies for weekly video conversations related to the COVID-19 crisis, current events, and peace studies. 

Episode 1: The Impact of Coronavirus on Ramadan 2020

Featuring Professor of Islamic Studies Ebrahim Moosa with Madrasa Discourses participants Sumera Saleem (Pakistan) and Saiful Hadi (India). Learn more about the Madrasa Discourses project at contendingmodernities.nd.edu. 

Episode 2: COVID-19 and the Global Refugee Crisis

Featuring Kroc Institute Executive Director Erin Corcoran and Bill Frelick, Director of the Refugee and Migrant Rights Division, Human Rights Watch

Episode 3: AI, Early Warnings, and Political Instability in the COVID-19 Era

Featuring Associate Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies Ernesto Verdeja and Kroc Institute Faculty Fellow Walter Scheirer

Episode 4: How to Support Children and Families during a Pandemic

Featuring Kroc Institute Faculty Fellow Darcia Narvaez and Kroc Institute Doctoral Student in Psychology and Peace Studies Mary Tarsha 

Episode 5: Ongoing Protests in Hong Kong

On July 1, Hong Kong's Establishment Day, we hosted a conversation on the ongoing protest movements in the country. Featuring Victoria Hui, Associate Professor of Political Science and Kroc Institute Faculty Fellow, and Maggie Shum, Research Associate for the Master of Global Affairs Program at the Keough School of Global Affairs

Episode 6: Movements for Justice in Israel-Palestine and the United States

Atalia Omer, Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute, and Orly Noy, Public Intellectual, Journalist, and Political and Cultural Activist, discuss synergies between the Black Lives Matter and the movement for Palestinian lives.

Episode 7: A Summer Solstice Fire in Pandemic Time: The Prophetic Imaginations of Flannery O'Conner and Simone Weil

Featuring Ruthann K. Johansen, Professor Emerita in the Program of Liberal Studies and Kroc Institute Faculty Fellow, and E. Jane Doering, Director Emerita of the Teachers as Scholars Program

Episode 8: The Ongoing Global Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic

In the midst of the ongoing global pandemic, how are efforts to build peace and address the causes of violent conflict and injustice impacted?

Episode 9: COVID-19 and Peace Accord Implementation

Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, director of the Peace Accords Matrix Project (PAM), and Luis Felipe Botero and Rebecca Gindele, Specialists for the PAM Barometer Initiative in Colombia, discuss the impact of COVID-19 on Peace Agreement implementation and efforts to build sustainable peace in Colombia.