The University of Notre Dame welcomed approximately 100 participants, speakers and facilitators from around the world May 26-30, here for the second annual Strategic Peacebuilding…
Roberto (Bear) Guerra, an award-winning photographer and visuals editor whose work contemplates human connections – to each other and to the natural world – has been selected as the recipient of the Kroc Institute’s 2026 Distinguished…
When Professor Ernesto Verdeja approached the Kroc Institute about co-sponsoring the 17th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), it was an easy yes. "We’re a…
More than 60 participants from around the world visited the University of Notre Dame in late May as part of the Strategic Peacebuilding Academy hosted by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the …
Fatima Faisal Khan, a 2024 graduate of the Keough School’s Master of Global Affairs program, works as an associate for ecosystem trust and safety at the Institute for Security and Technology, a think tank that provides impactful solutions to pressing technological issues. In this conversation, she shares how her experience and...
University of Notre Dame alumna Becca Blais, a recent Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient for her work at the intersection of data science and politics, has been named a 2023 Samvid Scholar. She is Notre Dame’s first Samvid Scholar and one of just 20 members of this year’s cohort, which...
Five University of Notre Dame alumni have been recognized as Forbes 30 Under 30 recipients. Forbes unveils its 30 Under 30 list each fall, spotlighting the 30 most accomplished individuals in the United States under the age of 30 in various industries. The list features emerging talent in 20 fields, including...
The University of Notre Dame’s Master of Global Affairs students have been actively advancing gender equality and the rights of women and girls at the United Nations through field placements at UN Women in Geneva. In the past year,…
Conal Fagan ’21, the first Irish native to serve as the official Notre Dame leprechaun, returned home to Ireland to continue his mission of using sports as a means for social change.
One month after Russian forces invaded his home country of Ukraine in February 2022, Oleksii Kovalenko MGA ’19 joined Voice of America as an international media journalist based in Washington, DC. Since that time, Kovalenko has worked as part of a team of 30 journalists that produces in-depth coverage…
The Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame announced the winners of two prestigious awards, the annual Hesburgh Global Fellowship and the inaugural Howard S. Brembeck Fellowship. Sarah…
Editor’s Note: The new year dawned amid more destruction in Ukraine. Anna Romandash, a Ukrainian journalist and recent graduate of the Keough School of Global Affairs, offers this dispatch about her home country’s resilience, echoing…
Valerie Hickey, a 2000 graduate of the International Peace Studies Master’s program at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected to receive the Kroc Institute’s 2022 Distinguished Alumni…
Mohammad Omar Metwally (MGA ’19) loves to walk through historic Old Cairo at night. The crowded city of 20 million people slows down, allowing him to enjoy a view of the Nile River and think about his peacebuilding mission in the quiet streets of the place he has always called...
Brittney Nystrom, a 1998 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, has been selected to receive the Kroc Institute’s 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award. Nystrom currently serves…
Even in the midst of the ongoing pandemic, new and recent graduates of the Ph.D. Program in Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies continue to secure high-profile teaching, research and administrative positions in higher education institutions. …
