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Scott Appleby, John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute and Professor of History
Expertise: Roots of religious violence and potential of religious peacebuilding; fundamentalism; history of and current issues within the Catholic Church.
Contact: appleby.3@nd.edu or (574) 631-5665.

Joseph Bock, Director of External Relations
Expertise: Religious leadership and violence prevention; early warning and early response to violence, ethnic conflict, humanitarian relief and development.
Contact: jbock@nd.edu or (574) 631-6970.

Catherine Bolten, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Peace Studies
Expertise: Structural violence; cultural and moral dimensions of violent conflict; post-war healing and social development in Africa.
Contact: catherine.bolten.2@nd.edu or (574) 631-5099

David Cortright, Director of Policy Studies
Expertise: Economic sanctions and incentives, United States and United Nations policy in Iraq, and nonviolent social change.
Contact: dcortrig@nd.edu or (574) 631-8356.

Hal Culbertson, Executive Director, attorney and instructor
Expertise: Management of international non-governmental organizations, peacebuilding project design and evaluation.
Contact: culbertson.1@nd.edu or (574) 631-8832.

John Darby, Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies
Expertise: Ethnic conflict, especially in Northern Ireland; the management of peace processes, peace accords; post-agreement peacebuilding.
Contact: darby.3@nd.edu or (574) 631-0997.

Jaleh Dashti-Gibson, Director of Academic Programs
Expertise: Peace education (undergraduate and graduate); reflective practice; education of scholar-practitioners in peacebuilding.
Contact: jdashtiz@nd.edu or (574) 631-6970

Christian Davenport, Professor of Peace Studies, Political Science, and Sociology
Expertise: Political conflict; government oppression and human rights violations; genocide, mass killings, and racism. 
Contact: cdavenp1@nd.edu or (574) 631-0361

Larissa Fast, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Expertise: Humanitarian security, development and conflict, and conflict transformation.
Contact: lfast@nd.edu or (574) 631-7096.

Robert C. Johansen, Senior Fellow and Professor of Political Science
Expertise: U.S. foreign policy and international relations; the United Nations, peace, and security; international ethics; international human rights, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the International Criminal Court.
Contact: johansen.2@nd.edu or (574) 631-6971.

Asher Kaufman, Assistant Professor of History
Expertise: Politics and society in Lebanon and Syria; Israeli policy in the Middle East; boundaries and territoriality in Syria, Lebanon, and Israel; nationalism in the Middle East.
Contact: Kaufman.15@nd.edu or (574) 631-8213.

John Paul Lederach, Professor of International Peacebuilding
Expertise: Active in sustainable reconciliation and the design and conduct of conflict transformation programs throughout the world (Central America and the Andean region, the Horn of Africa and West Africa, Northern Ireland, Tajikistan and the Philippines, among others).
Contact: JPBus@aol.com or (574) 631-6970.

George A. Lopez, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor of Peace Studies
Expertise: United Nations; state violence and coercion, especially war, terrorism, economic sanctions, and gross violations of human rights.
Contact: lopez.1@nd.edu or (574) 631-6972.

Rashied Omar, Research Scholar of Islamic Studies and Peacebuilding
Expertise: Islam, religion and violence, interreligious dialogue and peacebuilding, and post-conflict peacebulding in South Africa.
Contact: omar.1@nd.edu or (574) 631-7740.

Mary Ellen O'Connell, Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution
Expertise: International legal regulation of the use of force, conflict and dispute resolution, and the resolution of disputes prior to an escalation to armed conflict
Contact: MaryEllenOConnell@nd.edu or (574) 631-7953.

Daniel Philpott, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies
Expertise: Ethics of reconciliation; approaches to past injustice (truth commissions, trials); religion and global politics; conflict reconciliation in Kashmir; humanitarian intervention; sovereignty; self-determination and secession; the justice of war.
Contact: philpott.1@nd.edu or (574) 631-7667.

Gerard F. Powers, Director of Catholic Peacebuilding Studies
Expertise: Ethical and legal norms governing the use of military force; ethics and international affairs; religion, conflict and peacebuilding; Catholic social teaching.
Contact: gpowers1@nd.edu or (574) 631-3765.

Emad Shahin, Luce Associate Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Expertise: Islam and politics; democracy and political practice in Islamic law; Islamic movements in the Middle East and North Africa.
Contact: emad.e.shahin.2@nd.edu or (574) 631-4685

Jackie Smith, Associate Professor of Sociology and Peace Studies
Expertise: Transnational organizing and activism, globalization and protest, social movements and democracy, United Nations and civil society.
Contact: jsmith40@nd.edu or (574) 631-2640.

Susan St. Ville, Associate Director of Academic Programs
Expertise: Trauma and peacebuilding; gender issues in war and peace; psychological effects of violence.
Contact: sstville@nd.edu or (574)631-2628.

Peter Wallensteen, Richard G. Starrman Research Professor of Peace Studies, Kroc Institute and Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala, Sweden
Expertise: Peace, peacebuilding, causes of war, conflict resolution, conflict prevention, economic sanctions, UN affairs, Scandinavian events.
Contact: wallensteen.4@nd.edu or (574)631-0935.