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January 12, 2012 — Professor George A. Lopez explains the meaning of this year's lost minute.
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Patrick Mason explains why Islam, Catholicism, and secularism are the focus of this ambitious research project at Notre Dame.
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May 18, 2010 – A fuel swap between Iran and Turkey is a positive development that the United States should support, says Director of Policy Studies David Cortright.
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Emad Shahin, who recently joined the Kroc Institute faculty, studies and compares Islamic movements and politics in different countries of the Middle East. We asked him to reflect on his new position at a peace institute within a Catholic research university.
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May 7, 2009 — A mounting political crisis came to a head this week in Nepal. Is Nepal’s historic peace process at risk? We asked Manish Thapa, a visiting research fellow at the Kroc Institute.
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March 24, 2009 — This April marks the 15th anniversary of the 100-day period in 1994 when an estimated 1 million people were killed in Rwanda. Christian Davenport has released data that challenges standard perceptions of who was responsible for the massive violence.
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March 20, 2009 — The recent killings of two soldiers and a policeman in Northern Ireland were the first murders of security forces since the Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998. The Kroc Institute’s John Darby, an expert on the Irish peace process, explains the causes and consequences of the violence.
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March 19, 2009 — The U.S. recently launched missile attacks into Pakistan from unmanned drones based in Afghanistan. While the Obama administration is considering expanding the attacks, Kroc Research Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell, an expert on international law, says there is little legal basis for doing so.
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February 26, 2009 — President Obama’s first major decision as commander in chief was to order 17,000 more troops to deploy to Afghanistan. David Cortright, research fellow at the Kroc Institute, believes a military surge and escalation of the war will make matters worse.
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January 7, 2009 — Pre-inauguration, Barack Obama has not yet indicated how he will respond to the violence in Gaza. Scott Appleby, director of the Kroc Institute and a historian specializing in religious violence and strategic peacebuilding, says the moment calls for decisive action.
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