2009-10
Viva Bartkus (management) received a Kroc Faculty Fellow Research Grant for a project in which she and Notre Dame MBA students investigated the role of business in post-war reconstruction efforts in Lebanon, Uganda, and Kenya.
Larissa Fast (peace studies) received a Kroc Faculty Research Grant to develop asearchable global database of nonviolent events interfering with the delivery of emergency and developmental aid. The database is intended to improve security for those working to prevent and minimize the suffering caused by violence.
Cynthia Mahmood (anthropology) received a Kroc Faculty Fellow Research Grant for a book on the Anabaptist roots of socialist-pacifist success in Reading, Pennsylvania. The research draws on documents and artifacts from Mahmood'd father, Elwood Keppley.
Daniel Philpott (political science and peace studies) received a Kroc Faculty Research Grant for a workshop on his manuscript "Just and Unjust Peace: an Ethic of Political Reconciliation."
2008-09
Viva Bartkus (management) received a Faculty Fellow Research Grant for a project in which she and Notre Dame MBA students investigated the role of business in post-war reconstruction efforts in Bosnia and Lebanon.
Eileen Hunt Botting (political science) received a Faculty Fellow Research Grant to explore how Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill, the leading philosophers of women's rights in the 19th century, contributed to the invention of feminism and its intersection with peace, labor, and human rights movements.
E. Mark Cummings (psychology) received a Faculty Fellow Research Grant for a study on the effects of political violence on children in Croatia, a continuation of a five-year project examining political violence on children in Northern Ireland.
Michael Desch (political science) received a Faculty Fellow Research Grant to analyze the trends, causes, and consequences of the waning influence of academics on U.S. national security policy and offer guidance on how scholars and policymakers can engage each other on national security issues.
Debra Javeline (political science) was awarded a Faculty Associate Fellowship. She conducted field research in North Ossetia, Russia, for a book focusing on local responses to the violent siege on the Russian school in Beslan.
Sebastian Rosato (political science) received a Faculty Associate Fellowship to work on a book about the construction of the European Union, focusing on the causes of European integration and the wider debate among international relations scholars about the causes of war and peace.
Ernesto Verdeja (political science and peace studies) received a Kroc faculty research grant for a workshop to bring together scholars of peace, democracy, and social movements and a book to advance thinking about global power relations, capitalism, and violent conflict around the world.
Todd Whitmore (theology) received a Faculty Associate Fellowship for work in Uganda on a book that explores the conditions under which people are willing to undertake risks, even to their own lives, in situations of armed conflict.
2007-08
Asma Afsaruddin (classics) received a Faculty Fellow Research Grant for a study of jihad and martyrdom in Islamic thought and practice.
Rev. Bob Dowd, C.S.C. (theology) received a Faculty Research Grant to conduct fieldwork in Senegal to examine the extent to which participation in Christian and Islamic religious communities encourages or discourages participation in economic development, social welfare, and the wider political community.
Rev. Paul Kollman, C.S.C. (theology) received a Faculty Research Grant to visit early sites of evangelization in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania to examine the historical roots of contemporary Christian realities in East Africa.
Maura Ryan (theology) was awarded a Faculty Associate Fellowship. She is exploring the intersection of gender, health, and armed conflict as an issue in Christian bioethics, drawing on epidemiological studies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Naunihal Singh (political science) received a Faculty Research Grant to compile a dataset on military coup attempts since 1945 as part of a larger research project exploring why some coup attempts succeed and others fail.
2005-06
Dan Lindley (political science) was awarded a Faculty Associate Fellowship for his project "Is War Rational?" The project assessed the extent to which miscalculation and misperception dominate decisions for war. He also completed research for his book Promoting Peace with Information: Transparency as a Tool of Security Regimes (Princeton University Press, 2007), which explores the idea that peacekeeping institutions such as the United Nations can reduce the risk of war by increasing transparency between adversaries.
