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As the crisis in Afghanistan evolves after the fall of the country’s government in August 2021, global actors are debating how the international community should respond to the new Taliban regime. …
"No Country for Criminals: Understanding Support for Iron Fist Candidates in Brazil" Featuring Jake Turner, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science Open to Ph.D. students, fellows, and faculty who are interested in civil war, violence, crime, peace, conflict management, and conflict resolution. The workshop is an informal gathering to discuss work-in-progress, dissertation...
Featuring David Ragland, Co-Executive Director for Reparations, Culture, and Organizing, The Truth Telling Project Register to attend the lecture >>> The term reparationist integrates the holistic and spiritual concepts of reparations for Black people with the “abolition-democracy” concept-the practiced dismantling of the systems that maintain, reinforce, and profit from various...
Religious actors in the United States and Northern Ireland each face ongoing challenges of conflict and violence tied to political polarization. While the two cases present distinct dynamics and call for distinct responses, what lessons might be learned about how religion can be a force for peace, justice and reconciliation...
Climate change. Inequalities exposed by a global pandemic. Polarization. Gun violence. Mass migration. Religious conflict. In the face of ongoing challenges, how and where do we begin the work of building a better world? Peace studies can equip you with knowledge about the nature of violence, oppression, and inequality, and...
Can peoples and nations find ways to forge a more cooperative global community? Or will the world descend into further chaos? Can we recommend policies, drawing on the most compelling narratives and perspectives presented in the first two panels, to advance King’s dream of greater equality and a just community...
"Post-Coup Bargaining in the Shadow of the African Anti-Coup Norm" Featuring Laurie Nathan, Gary Goertz, Jeremy Graham, University of Notre Dame Open to Ph.D. students, fellows, and faculty who are interested in civil war, violence, crime, peace, conflict management, and conflict resolution. The workshop is an informal gathering to discuss work-in-progress,...
Featuring Felipe Roa-Clavijo, Visiting Research Fellow, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Discussants: Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, Director, Peace Accords Matrix; Associate Professor of the Practice Caroline Hughes. Associate Dean for Policy & Practice, Keough School of Global Affairs; Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Chair in Peace Studies, Kroc Institute...
"Sacred Spaces for Healing and Reconciliation" Featuring Tecla Namachanja Wanjala, Kenyan Peace Advocate; Renowned Consultant on Transitional Justice, Conflict Transformation, Social Healing, and Reconciliation Inter-communal armed conflicts usually affect people physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially. The violence leaves the affected people with bitter memories and anger or rage. During campaigns...
"Military Juntas, Civil Society Activism, and Post-Coup Political Orders" Featuring Sebastian Elischer, University of Florida and Kellogg Fellow Open to Ph.D. students, fellows, and faculty who are interested in civil war, violence, crime, peace, conflict management, and conflict resolution. The workshop is an informal gathering to discuss work-in-progress, dissertation chapters and...
Join us for the continuing series of monthly conversations focused on the Catholic approach to nuclear weapons that will engage students from Catholic Universities, which include Notre Dame, Georgetown, Catholic University, Northwestern, and university partners in Japan, Africa, South America, Mexico, and more. Conversations will address the moral implications of using the bomb, current...
Featuring Andrea Bartoli, President of the Sant'Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue Since its key role in facilitating the 1992 Mozambique accord, Sant'Egidio, a lay Catholic community based in Rome, has become widely recognized as a leader in Track 2 diplomacy by civil society actors. Sant'Egidio is now playing a...
Register to attend this event » Reginald Dwayne Betts is the Founder and Director of the Million Book Project. A poet and lawyer, he transformed himself from a sixteen-year old kid sentenced to nine-years in prison to a critically acclaimed writer and graduate of the Yale Law School. He has written three...
"When are Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) Programs Successful? Introducing the DDR-18 Dataset (1980-2018)" Featuring Sally Sharif, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Kroc Institute Open to Ph.D. students, fellows, and faculty who are interested in civil war, violence, crime, peace, conflict management, and conflict resolution. The workshop is an informal gathering to discuss work-in-progress,...
Register to attend this event » Poet, novelist, translator, critic, and scholar Ammiel Alcalay teaches at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. His books include After Jews and Arabs, Memories of Our Future, Islanders, neither wit nor gold: from then, from the warring factions, and a little history. Recent books include...
"Land Restitution and Racial Inequality in Colombia’s Post-conflict Transition" Featuring Laura García-Montoya, Visiting Fellow, Kellogg Institute, and Ana Montoya, Duke University Open to Ph.D. students, fellows, and faculty who are interested in civil war, violence, crime, peace, conflict management, and conflict resolution. The workshop is an informal gathering to discuss work-in-progress, dissertation chapters...
Featuring Kara Ellerby, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware This lecture will first outline how a lack of intersectionality in discourse and measures of gender equality permeate today's peacebuilding and development efforts, often reinforcing inequality. Ellerby will then explore how re-engaging feminist ideas about identities and justice can...
Register to attend this event » Salwa Ismail is Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research examines everyday forms of government, urban governance, and governmental violence. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in both Egypt and Syria,...
Join us for the continuing series of monthly conversations focused on the Catholic approach to nuclear weapons that will engage students from Catholic Universities, which include Notre Dame, Georgetown, Catholic University, Northwestern, and university partners in Japan, Africa, South America, Mexico, and more. Conversations will address the moral implications of using the bomb, current...
Register to attend this event » Hassan Blasim (b. 1973) is an Iraqi writer, poet, and filmmaker who is currently living in Helsinki, Finland. Born in Baghdad, he studied at the city’s Academy of Cinematic Arts where two of his screenplays won the Academy’s Festival Prize for Best Work. In 1998...
