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We at the Kroc Institute mourn the death of Jude Ash (Majd al-Shoufi), a doctoral student studying peace studies and psychology.

We at the Kroc Institute want to name our solidarity with the Asian-American, Asian and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in the U.S. as their community remains under assault and experiences a rise in racially-motivated violence.

At the Kroc Institute we honor the legacy of two civil rights giants who passed away last Friday: Representative John Lewis, a nonviolent student civil rights leader in the 1960s who later served for more than 30 years as a member of the U.S. Congress, and Rev. Cordy Tindell “C.T.”...

We at the Kroc Institute are following the new wave of protest and riots for racial justice that are now engulfing American cities and we join the call for action in response.

Those of us here at the Kroc Institute are mourning the death of Anne Marie Yoder, a long-time friend and supporter of the Institute who passed away on Friday, September 20.

We at the Kroc Institute mourn the death of Badi Foster, a member of the Institute’s Advisory Council (now Advisory Board) since 2005. Badi passed away peacefully at his home in Evanston, Illinois, on January 31, 2019.

The 2017-18 academic year was a year of remarkable change and growth for the Kroc Institute. Although I have been a faculty member within the Institute since 2005, in my new role as the Institute’s Director, I had a first-hand view this year of all the many ways that our...

Asher Kaufman, professor of history and peace studies, has been appointed the John M. Regan, Jr. Director of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, effective July 1, 2017.

Ruth Abbey, professor of political science at Notre Dame, has been appointed Interim Director of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

Professor Darby died peacefully at his home in Ireland on June 2.

In this short video, Scott Appleby, director of the Kroc Institute, comments on President Obama's June 4 address in Cairo.