Kroc Institute highlighted as part of special issue of Peace Science Digest
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. A special…
Kroc Institute installs 40th anniversary poster exhibit
Happy 40th anniversary to the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies! In honor of its anniversary, the Kroc Institute has installed a poster exhibit along the hallways of the Hesburgh Center for International Studies. The exhibit showcases the Institute’s achievements in the areas of…
Kroc Institute hosts two visiting research fellows for the fall 2026 semester
Two visiting research fellows are part of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies for fall 2026, kicking off the Institute’s Visiting Research Fellows Program for the 2026-2027 academic year. The program brings outstanding peace studies…
Mediation theory meets practice in Switzerland this summer
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,…
Laurie Nathan leads June mediation course for senior UN officials in Switzerland
Laurie Nathan leads the United Nations High Level Mediation…
Mechanisms for healing in a broken world, the focus of the Kroc Institute’s second annual Strategic Peacebuilding Academy
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…
Kroc Institute has presence in Pretoria retreat
Laurie Nathan, director of the Kroc…
Graduating seniors honored at Kroc Institute’s recognition ceremony
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…
Kroc Institute to host its second annual Strategic Peacebuilding Institute, May 26-30
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,…
The religious reverence for human life
“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…
Debora Rogo honored with a 2026 Kellogg Institute Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student Contributions
Debora Rogo, a peace studies and history doctoral candidate at the University of Notre Dame, was named the recipient of a 2026 Kellogg Institute Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student Contributions. The award, which includes…
Notre Dame students head to Colombia over spring break as part of course on peacemaking, peace accords and their implementation
It wasn’t a "typical" spring break week, poolside or playing volleyball on the beach. Instead, Notre Dame students enrolled in the class “Peace Agreements: Global Perspectives and the Colombian Experience” headed south to Colombia, with time spent in Bogotá, the capital, followed by Medellín, in the…
Kroc Institute has a presence in mediation of Sudanese conflict
This month’s work in Germany marks an international mediation win toward resolving the civil war in Sudan. Laurie Nathan, who directs the Mediation Program housed at the Keough School’s Kroc Institute…
Annual Notre Dame Student Peace Conference arrives to the Kroc Institute, April 10-11
Now in its 33rd year, the 2026 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference is set to take place Friday and Saturday, April 10-11 and again will offer a variety of presentations and talks on peacebuilding topics led by emerging scholars from the United States and…
The talent behind the Notre Dame Student Peace Conference: Meet this year’s student organizers
As the much-anticipated annual Notre Dame Student Peace Conference approaches, I visited with its 2026 student organizers Coby McKeown (B.A. ’26 – majoring in English/Creative Writing and Peace Studies) and Faiza Filali (B.A. ’26 – a Glynn Family Honors Program…
A Q&A with Ambassador Samantha Power, featured speaker of the Kroc Institute's Hesburgh Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy
Following are questions posed to the Honorable Samantha Power, the 2026 featured speaker of the Hesburgh Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy, and her responses by email. This annual…
Roberto (Bear) Guerra tapped for 2026 Kroc Institute Distinguished Alumni Award
Roberto (Bear) Guerra, an award-winning photographer and visuals editor whose work contemplates human connections – to each other and to the natural world – has been selected as the recipient of the Kroc Institute’s 2026 Distinguished…
Summer opportunity for doctoral students to study international mediation in Geneva, Switzerland
The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies has paired up with the Geneva Graduate Institute and its Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding to offer a summer Ph.D. course on international mediation. …
Kroc Institute welcomes four visiting research fellows in spring 2026
Four research scholars and practitioners from around the world have joined the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in spring 2026, to begin their terms as visiting research fellows on campus. The opportunity to study at the Keough School of Global Affairs’ Kroc Institute comes from…
Kroc Institute to welcome three Catholic Relief Services research fellows in spring 2026
Thanks to the Kroc Institute-Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Peacebuilding Fellowship, three visiting scholars will join the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies on campus in spring 2026 to pursue independent…
“New Game, New Peaces: Strategies for a Shifting Field,” the theme for the 2026 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference
The calendar reads “January,” but preparation for the annual spring 2026 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference is well underway. …
Reflections on the 17th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars
When Professor Ernesto Verdeja approached the Kroc Institute about co-sponsoring the 17th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), it was an easy yes. "We’re a…
Uzra Zeya, Kroc Institute Advisory Board member, honored with United Nations Association diplomacy award
Uzra Zeya, president and CEO of Human Rights First and a member of the Kroc Institute Advisory Board, was named the recipient of the 2025 F. Allen “Tex”…
Kroc Institute alumnus Frank Castillo (M.A. '90) profiled as part of "Sacred Stories" Advent series
Peter Wallensteen honored by the Peace Science Society for research contributions
Peter Wallensteen…
Peace studies graduate Isabel Güiza-Gómez wins prestigious dissertation award for research on peace and land reform
The following is adapted from the Kellogg Institute's website article that ran on Nov. 10, 2025. Kroc Institute alum Isabel Güiza-Gómez (Ph.D., '25) was named the recipient of the 2025…
Keough School institutes partner to launch new academic journal at first-ever conference on disappearance studies
The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies hosted the conference on Sept. 29-30 with more than 40 scholars and practitioners from around the world.
Mediation Program Director contributes to "Religious and secular mediators need each other" op-ed
Laurie Nathan, director of the Mediation Program housed within the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, co-authored the op-ed below, "Religious and secular mediators need each other." The piece first ran Oct. 16 on Peace…
Kroc Institute welcomes three visiting research fellows in fall 2025
Three visiting research fellows have joined the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, kicking off the Institute’s Visiting Research Fellows Program for the 2025-26 academic year. The program brings outstanding peace studies scholars…
Compassion + Action + Education = Positive Change
Connection, listening, empathy, voice, resolution, understanding – these are words that aptly describe the center of Laurie Nathan’s work as a mediator and as the director of the Kroc Institute’s Mediation Program. His professional focus is aimed at…
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