The racially-motivated shooting and mass killing in Buffalo, New York, calls attention—yet again—to two disturbing and converging phenomena in the United States: white supremacist violence motivated by conspiracy theories such as “replacement theory” and unabated gun violence propelled by the proliferation and easy availability of weapons. …
It has been more than a week since the start of the current cycle of violence in Israel/Palestine and we at the Kroc Institute watch with despair and alarm as lives are lost, homes are destroyed, and chances for peace and justice seem further away than ever.
We at the Kroc Institute want to express our concern with the current situation in Colombia, and name our solidarity with the peaceful protesters in the many Colombian cities and towns that have suffered disproportionate use of force by the police since April 28, 2021. We add our voice to...
Yesterday afternoon we learned that Derek Chauvin, the police officer who killed George Floyd, was found guilty on all of the charges that were brought by the prosecutors. We know that many of us were anxiously awaiting this news, and hoping for some measure of accountability. As much as we...
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.”...
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.
In this short video, Scott Appleby, director of the Kroc Institute, comments on President Obama's June 4 address in Cairo.
