Fr. Emmanuel Katongole, Professor of Theology and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Keough School of Global Affairs, was honored by weekly Catholic publication The Tablet as one of “Fifty Minds That Matter.”
The Kroc Institute recently released a report in collaboration with UN Women, Women’s International Democratic Federation, and Sweden, describing how the inclusion of a gender perspective and specific gender-related commitments in the text of the 2016 Colombian Peace Accord is an important step toward strengthening women's meaningful participation in the building of peace. This...
As a student-athlete, Rebecca Nunge, a science preprofessional studies (pre-med) major with a minor in peace studies and a senior outside hitter on the University of Notre Dame volleyball team, has spent most of her summers on campus — taking classes and training with teammates. But it was only recently...
The 2019 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference Committee announces this year’s conference theme, “Expanding Circles: Peace in a Polarized Age?” The conference will take place March 29-30, 2019.
On Wednesday, November 14, George A. Lopez, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, testified at a Washington D.C. hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. The hearing focused…
Patrick Regan, Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies, was instrumental in the creation of the Urban Adaptation Assessment, an open-source, free measurement and analysis tool that explores a city’s ability to adapt and readiness for adaptation to climate change. Read
A new report published on October 31 reveals that stipulations in Colombia’s Peace Accord centered on gender equality and women’s rights are being implemented, but more slowly than other provisions within the accord.
Professor Laurie Nathan, Mediation Program Director and Professor of the Practice of Mediation, has been awarded a contract to develop a Mediation Protocol for the Intergovernmental Authority on Development.
On September 29, the Kroc Institute Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) team was honored with the University of Notre Dame's Presidential Team Irish Award. The award honors staff teams that exemplify the University's core values on behalf of their department or their university.
Kroc's own Madhav Joshi and Louise Olsson write on the status of gender considerations within the peace agreement implementation process in Colombia for PVGlance: "Strengthened efforts to realize the gender stipulations of the Peace Agreement can help set new standards for future peace processes elsewhere. As Resolution 1325 turns 20, Colombia...
Associate Professor Ann Mische writes about the democratic crisis in Brazil for the Mobilizing Ideas blog: "Brazil is the country of the future – 'always in the future' (as Brazilians typically add with a laugh). The future of the world looks very bleak right now. Can Brazil help to re-direct world-historical currents...
Madhav Joshi, associate director of the Peace Accords Matrix project and associate research professor, and Matthew Hauenstein, postdoctoral research associate at Kroc, wrote an in-depth analysis piece for The Washington Post titled, "What are the prospects for South Sudan’s new peace agreement? Here are the critical next steps."
Ukraine is on the brink of war-related environmental disaster according to new research published by two Kroc Institute doctoral students. Kristina Hook and Richard Marcantonio, both doctoral candidates in anthropology and peace studies, published their research in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on October 16.
Patrick Regan, Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies, was instrumental in the creation of the Urban Adaptation Assessment, an open-source, free measurement and analysis tool that explores a city’s ability to adapt and readiness for adaptation to climate change.
Victoria Nyanjura, a student in the Master of Global Affairs, International Peace Studies program, is a first place recipient of the Navarra International Solidarity Award. Organized by the Government of Navarre, Spain, and Laboral Kutxa, a Spanish credit union, the award recognizes people, NGO’s, and institutions whose work advances the...
The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize goes to Dr. Denis Mukwege and Ms. Nadia Murad, two brave individuals that have stood up to sexual violence as 'the helper' and as the 'witness,' as expressed by the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Ms. Berit Reiss-Andersen. The prize gives visibility to sexual violence in...
The 11th Annual Summer Institute for Faculty at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies will be held June 10-14, 2019,…
From its inception, the United Nations (UN) has engaged in preventive diplomacy in situations of conflict in order to prevent the outbreak of large-scale violence. A 2015 report on UN Peace Operations and support from UN Secretary-General António Guterres has led to renewed interest in preventing…
The start of any new academic year is full of firsts, but for the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, this year was special, marking the launch of Kroc’s new mediation program.…
George A. Lopez, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies, was quoted in the NBC News story "South Korea's talks with North are going well, unlike Trump's."
“The glass may seem half empty from the standpoint of people’s expectations, but it is half full in comparison” with peace processes that have followed conflicts in other parts of the world," said Borja Paladini Adell. Kroc's work to monitor the progress of the Colombian peace accord implementation…
Professor Ebrahim Moosa (Professor of Islamic Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and Department of History) was quoted in the Newsweek article "What is Hajj? Here are the rituals muslims perform during the pilgrimage”
George Lopez, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies, wrote The Hill op-ed “The Iran sanctions are bound to fail.”
Ernesto Verdeja, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, will receive the 2018 Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award.