His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, will formally launch “Within Your Gates: The Forum for the Universal Vocation of Jerusalem” on Sept. 7 in partnership with Notre Dame Jerusalem, the University of Notre Dame’s academic center in Jerusalem.
This fall, the Keough School of Global Affairs welcomes a diverse group of undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students to campus — young leaders who are dedicated to working on global policy issues that impact human dignity and flourishing worldwide.
Mia Clarke , a junior global affairs and peace studies major from Indianapolis, reflects on lessons learned from her summer internship with the Arms Control Association.
Junior Lillian Post shares highlights from her involvement in Professor Gerard Powers' summer Rome course on Catholic approaches to war and peace. The experience allowed her to attend a major conference on AI and nuclear weapons and extended her work with the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, which Powers coordinates .
The University of Notre Dame’s Peace Accords Matrix is expanding its work to Africa’s Great Lakes region, seeking to contribute to the peace process between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda by providing expertise on peacemaking and peacebuilding that will support the work of local stakeholders.
Scholars and practitioners from the University of Notre Dame and across the globe recently gathered in Rome to examine how religion can serve as a resource for democratic renewal amid authoritarian attempts to weaponize it. The convening aligns with larger work of the Notre Dame Democracy Initiative.
Mia Clarke, a Notre Dame undergraduate student and co-leader of CPN's Student Disarmament Webinar series, worked a summer internship with the Arms Control Association (ACA).…
By the time the panel closed, George A. López had been in Mexico City for a little over 24 hours—just long enough to start recognizing faces in the room at Universidad Autómoma de México’s (UNAM) Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte (CISAN). But López has spent a career learning...
Each year in June, Laurie Nathan, director the of the Mediation Program, runs an annual Ph.D. course on international mediation, which this year was co-hosted by the Kroc Institute and a new partner,…
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…
In the Hesburgh Center for International Studies, there’s a colorful booklet called “Kenya Youth Scenarios” on the desk in Ann Mische’s office. It dates back 15 years to a participatory dialogue project designed to help young…
The celebration may have looked different this year, but the excitement was just the same. Instead of an evening reception as in years past, this year the Kroc Institute, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, hosted a celebratory breakfast on May 15 for graduating seniors earning a supplementary…
University of Notre Dame Rome and Caritas Internationalis have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), formalizing and strengthening their collaboration in research and formation at the service of the Church’s humanitarian mission. The agreement builds…
For the second consecutive year, the Kroc Institute will convene peacebuilders from around the world for the 2026 Strategic Peacebuilding Academy, to take place on campus Tuesday, May 26 through Saturday,…
“A neglected but devastating, low-intensity war is unfolding in our communities,” said A. Rashied Omar, as part of his presentation in the seminar, “Gangsterism…
As Colombia stands at a historic threshold in the implementation of its 2016 Final Peace Agreement, decisions made in the coming months will be important for shaping the continuity and long-term sustainability of the peace process amid a changing…
