During the 2004-05 fiscal year, the institute continued to direct the income generated by Joan Kroc’s $50 million gift toward the implementation of our strategic plan. The plan envisions an integrated program of research, education and policy outreach that is deeply engaged with field sites around the world.

During 2004-05, the institute had operating expenses of approximately $2.5 million, not including tuition scholarships. Faculty and staff salaries and benefits together with graduate student stipends constituted approximately three-fourths of overall expenditures. The remaining quarter was used for research and program activities.

Complementing our endowment resources, institute research programs received substantial external support. The Program in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding (PRCP) continued to receive support from the Rockefeller Foundation, which awarded a $325,000 grant for the Rockefeller Visiting Fellowships program from 2003-2007. The PRCP also received funds from the Henry Luce Foundation, which in 2000 awarded the institute a Henry R. Luce Professorship in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding. The Sanctions and Security Project, led by Kroc faculty members George Lopez and David Cortright, received grants amounting to $178,630 from the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the United Nations Foundation, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the United States Institute of Peace. These grants supported collaborative research on counter- terrorism between the institute and the Fourth Freedom Forum of Goshen, Indiana. The institute also benefited from several gifts, including a generous bequest of $100,000 from Advisory Council member Thomas D. McCloskey.

The institute also garnered several new awards in 2004-05. The United States Institute of Peace awarded $45,000 to fund a joint initiative in 2005-06 with Catholic Relief Services to develop tools for evaluating peacebuilding efforts. The project is led by John Paul Lederach. The PRCP was awarded $28,000 from the U.S. State Department for collaborative projects in 2005-06 with the Indiana Center for Cultural Exchange. The center, at Purdue University, coordinates exchange programs with the Muslim world.

Four new faculty and staff members were hired to strengthen research initiatives and academic programs. Asher Kaufman was appointed assistant professor of history and will focus his research and teaching on the contemporary Middle East. Jackie Smith, a graduate of the Kroc M.A program, was appointed to the peace studies faculty as associate professor of sociology. Her research and teaching focus on social movements. Another Kroc graduate, Jaleh Dashti-Gibson, was appointed director of academic programs. Dashti-Gibson holds a Ph.D. in government and international studies, also from Notre Dame. Colette Sgambati, program assistant for research and policy, was hired to provide administrative support to several research and policy initiatives.

Over the summer of 2004, the Kroc Institute renovated its first-floor offices in the Hesburgh Center to provide space for new faculty and staff. The institute also enhanced research support for faculty and faculty fellows by instituting a leave of absence policy, offering seed money grants, and providing semester-long or summer-long grants.

Facts about our students
Sixteen students from thirteen countries were chosen from among 190 applicants to comprise the Class of ’06, the first in the institute’s newly expanded M.A. program. They ranged in age from 22 to 58, with an average age of 28. One student attends Kroc on a Muskie/Freedom Support Act fellowship, and one on a Fulbright fellowship.

In spring of 2005, there were 115 undergraduates with supplementary majors or minors in peace studies. All but seven of those students came from the College of Arts and Letters. Peace studies was most popular as a minor or second major among political science majors, with 36 enrolled.

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