(Sponsored, co-sponsored or hosted by the Kroc Institute)

September 11-13
RIREC Conference: “Peacebuilding After Peace Accords” (see page 5)

Lecture series: “Environmental Justice: Grassroots Voices”
September 17: “Gary Dumps, Environmental Justice and the Catholic Worker Movement” Jose Bustos, Service Employees International Union in Chicago, chairman of Coalition for a Clean Environment
September 17: “Environmental Injustice in Northwest Indiana” Betty Balanoff, distinguished labor historian, local community environmental activist and resident of Hammond, Indiana.
October 1: “Legal Obstacles to Environmental Justice” Bryan Bullock, activist for Gary and the northwest Indiana region.
October 8: “Water Security and Public Health” Joan Rose, Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research, Michigan State University

Series co-sponsored by O’Neill Family Chair, Science, Technology and Values Program, Kroc Institute, African and African-American Studies Program, and Departments of Anthropology, Biological Sciences, and Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences.

September 23
Lecture: “Iraq War II: A Blatantly Unjust War” James Sterba, Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame

Lecture Series: Program in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding Africa Seminar featuring Rockefeller Visiting Fellows
October 9: “Media Liberalization in Africa: Raising the Stakes of Religious and Ethnic Conflict” Rosalind Hackett, Distinguished Professor in Humanities, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
October 30: “Of Secular Snakes and Spiritual Serpents: Indigenous Revivalism, Ethnic Nationalism, and National Consciousness in Post-Moi Kenya” James Smith, social-cultural anthropologist (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2002)
November 13: “Prospects for Islamic Peacebuilding in Sub-Saharan Africa” Sakah Mahmud, Associate Professor of Political Science, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky

October 29
Lecture: “Being a Muslim in Christian Philippines” Princess Emraida Kiram, born the daughter of Sultan Kiram and Sultana Bai Labi Laila Kiram in Mindanao, Philippines

Organized by Filipino-American Student Organization, with support from the Kellogg Institute and the Kroc Institute

October 3
Lecture: “Reconciliation and Peace Efforts in Palestine” The Rev. Elias Chacour, Melkite Catholic priest working for peace in the Holy Land Co-

Sponsored by Center for Social Concerns, Kroc Institute, and Notre Dame/Saint Mary’s Peace Coalition

November 3
Lectures: “The World’s Forgotten Wars and the Witness of the Community of Sant’Egidio” and “The Christian Gospel and Friendship with the Poor: The Witness of the Community of Sant’Egidio,” Paolo Mancinelli, Rome, Italy, Community of Sant’Egidio

Co-sponsored by Community of Sant’Egidio, Notre Dame Campus Ministry, Center for Social Concerns, the Justice Education Program at Saint Mary’s College, and the Kroc Institute

November 4
Lecture: “Peacebuilding and Development in Guatemala and Ireland,” Charles Reilly, former Director of the Peace Corps in Guatemala, Kroc Institute visiting fellow

February 12
Lecture: “Just War Thinking in a New Age” Peter Temes, author of The Just War: An American Reflection on the Morality of War

Co-sponsored by the Program in Liberal Studies

February 24
Lecture: “It’s Not All Sex and Violence: Anthropological and Evolutionary Reflections on the Role of Cooperation, Social Complexity, and Peace in Humans,” Agustin Fuentes, Associate Professor of Anthropology

March 2
Panel discussion: “Iraq One Year Later: What Have We Learned?” with panelists Keir Lieber, Assistant Professor, Political Science; Daniel Lindley, Assistant Professor, Political Science; George Lopez, Director of Policy Studies, Kroc Institute; Martha Merritt, Director of Strategic and International Development, Kroc Institute

March 3
Film: Dr. Strangelove, with introduction by Daniel Lindley, Assistant Professor of Political Science

March 4-6
Conference: “Tending the Helper’s Fire: Mitigating Trauma and Stress in International Staff and Volunteers”

Sponsored by Idealist.org, hosted by the Kroc Institute

March 15
Lecture: “Ten Trends in Religion and Conflict between 1945 and 2001,” Jonathan Fox, Lecturer in Political Science, Bar Ilan University

March 18
Lecture: “Religious War and the Cultural Politics of Peace,” Wayne te Brake, Professor of History, Purchase College, State University of New York

Co-sponsored with Department of History and the McAnaney Chair

March 23
Lecture: “Just Peacemaking Theory: A Better Approach to Terrorism?,” Glen Stassen, Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics, Fuller Theological Seminary, Kroc Institute visiting fellow

March 25
Lecture: “Spiritual Politics and Social Healing in an Age of Culture Wars and Terror,” Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun Magazine

Co-sponsored with the Center for Social Concerns, the Abrams Chair of Jewish Thought and Culture in the Department of Theology, the Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley, the American Studies Department, the Center for Ethics and Culture, Amnesty International, the Children’s Defense Fund, Catholic Peace Fellowship, and Lyons Hall.

March 26-28
Student Peace Conference: “Freedom from Fear: The Freedom of Peace”

March 31-April 3
PRCP conference: “Religion in African Conflicts and Peacebuilding Initiatives: Problems and Prospects for a Globalizing Africa”
(see page 4)

Sponsored by the Kroc Institute Program in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Jinja, Uganda

April 5
Film: “The Triumph of Evil,” Remembering Rwanda: 10 Years After Genocide

April 7
Program: “In Rwanda we say...the family that does not speak, dies.” Remembering Rwanda: 10 Years After Genocide

Organized by Rwandan students at Notre Dame

April 8
Lecture: “Cyprus (1959-1974) and Northern Ireland (1968-2003): Reluctant Polities in Comparative Perspective,” Angeliki Kanavou, Kroc Institute visiting fellow

April 13-14
Lectures: “The Real Japan: The Cult of Authenticity” and “Remarks on the Israel/Palestine Conflict,” Ian Buruma, Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights and New-Media at Bard College

Presented by College of Arts & Letters and Asian Studies Advisory Group
Co-sponsored with the Center for Asian Studies, the Graduate School, the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the W.M. Scholl Chair, the Kellogg Institute

April 20-21
Tenth Annual Hesburgh Lectures in Ethics and Public Policy: “The War in Iraq: Justified as Humanitarian Intervention?” and “Counter Terrorism: Are Human Rights an Obstacle or Part of the Solution?,” Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

April 22
Lecture: “The Israeli Anti-Terrorist Fence,” Samantha Rollinger, Director of Academic Affairs, Israel Consulate, Chicago

April 22
Forum: “The Kashmir Conflict: Implications for South Asia and the World,” featuring Cynthia Mahmood, Kroc Institute Director of Graduate Studies, Kroc Institute and Associate Professor of Anthropology; and Raouf Ahanger, Kroc graduate student

Co-sponsored with the Indian Association of Notre Dame

April 23
Lecture: “Terrorism and the Unconscious,” Daniel Sibony, Professor of Mathematics, Universite Paris-VIII

Co-sponsored with the Program in French and Francophone Studies, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Kellogg Institute, Philosophy and Literature Colloquium, and Center for Social Concerns

April 29
Annual John Howard Yoder Dialogues on Nonviolence, Religion and Peace : “Memory and Reconciliation,” Miroslav Volf, Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology, Yale Divinity School

May 7
Lecture: “The Arab Conflict: Is Objectivity Possible?,” by Kroc Institute faculty fellow Alan Dowty; a farewell upon his retirement from the Department of Political Science

June 30
Graduation: M.A. Peace Studies Class of 2004

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