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Peter Wallensteen on the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, and the human rights organization Memorial in Russia and the Centre for Civil Liberties in Ukraine. Ales Bialiatski is in prison without trial in Belarus since 2020, Memorial is being liquidated by the Russian...

Peter Wallensteen on the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize

Remembering Rev. Andrew (Drew) J. Christiansen, S.J.

The Kroc Institute mourns the passing of one of its earliest leaders, the Rev. Andrew (Drew) J. Christiansen, S.J. He passed away on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, at the age of 77. Most recently he served as a Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Human Development in Georgetown’s School of Foreign...

Remembering Rev. Andrew (Drew) J. Christiansen, S.J.

Peter Wallensteen on the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, journalists from the Philippines and Russia respectively. In their announcement, the Nobel Committee wrote that the two were selected "for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace," and that they...

Peter Wallensteen on the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

Response to the Human Rights Watch report on Palestine-Israel

On April 27, 2021, Human Rights Watch released a 213-page report titled “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution,” examining Israeli treatment of Palestinians. The report states that “Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.”…

Response to the Human Rights Watch report on Palestine-Israel

Peter Wallensteen on the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the United Nations World Food Programme for its efforts to provide food assistance and eliminate hunger worldwide, especially in the midst of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Peter Wallensteen on the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

Blog 2: The stabilizing gambit

Ann Mische is associate professor of sociology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. This is the second in a series of posts examining public debates over prediction, crisis diagnoses, and social transformation stemming from COVID-19. The opening post can be found…

Blog 2: The stabilizing gambit

Blog: We are all futurists now

We are currently living through a moment of dramatic protest over racial injustice, on the heels of a profoundly destabilizing global pandemic that has undermined our routines and exposed deep social fissures. The pandemic, in turn, has emerged in the context of broader interlocking crises, from climate change to economic...

Blog: We are all futurists now

Climate Action, Gandhian Ways: Remarks on Mahatma Gandhi's 150th Birthday

This is an excerpt from remarks delivered by David Cortright, Kroc Institute director of policy studies and the Peace Accords Matrix, at the International Day of Nonviolence event hosted by the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations (UN) at the UN Headquarters in New York on October 2,...

Climate Action, Gandhian Ways: Remarks on Mahatma Gandhi's 150th Birthday

Statement on World Refugee Day

Today on World Refugee Day, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies honors the bravery and resilience of the over 70.8 million refugees and forcibly displaced individuals who have fled their homes, and often homeland, in search of protection.

Statement on World Refugee Day