The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, has welcomed 15 new students pursuing a master of global affairs with a concentration in international peace studies. These students are part of the Keough School’s largest-ever master of global affairs...
Elizabeth Boyle, a current Notre Dame Master of Global Affairs student, is currently in Rome working for the Community of Sant’Egidio in their Office of International Relations, but this is not…
In July, five second-year Keough School Master of Global Affairs students with a concentration in International Peace Studies (IPS) began six-month field experiences with partner peacebuilding organizations around the world. These six-month internships are part of an integrated field learning…
In a first-of-its-kind study that combines assessments of the risks of toxic emissions (e.g., fine particulate matter), nontoxic emissions (e.g., greenhouse gases) and people’s vulnerability to them, University of Notre Dame postdoctoral research associate Drew (Richard) Marcantonio, doctoral student Sean Field (anthropology), Associate Professor of Political Science Debra Javeline and...
In less than six minutes, the new film “Breaking the Cycle” invites caregivers, parents, policymakers, and anyone concerned with child development to adopt more collaborative and peace-inducing strategies for child rearing. The new film, a companion to the website EvolvedNest.org, grew out of ground-breaking research by Darcia Narvaez, Kroc Institute...
As Jason Springs watched Black Lives Matter protests sweep the United States in the summer of 2020, he felt an urgent need to adjust his fall semester class to academically engage the movement of the moment. Many courses in …
In May, Accomplice, a student-led website and multimedia hub launched in an effort to elevate decolonial scholarship, conversations, and activism related to the University of Notre Dame. The project was supported by the Mediation…
For the first time since its inception, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies hosted its innovative Summer Institute for Faculty (SI) virtually. From June 14-16, the event drew over 350 participants from over 140 organizations and 19 countries for conversations about best practices for launching peace studies programs at...
Beginning this summer, Catherine Bolten will begin a new role as Associate Editor for the African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review (ACPR), an “interdisciplinary forum for…
Even in the midst of the ongoing pandemic, new and recent graduates of the Ph.D. Program in Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies continue to secure high-profile teaching, research and administrative positions in higher education institutions. …
During Commencement weekend, Kroc Institute faculty member Ann Mische, associate professor of sociology and peace studies, was one of two University of Notre Dame faculty members to receive the James A. Burns, C.S.C., Graduate School Award.
In another strong showing from University of Notre Dame students in the doctoral program for peace studies, three Ph.D. students received major fellowships and research awards this spring. The Ph.D. Program in Peace Studies is administered by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.…
Haga clic aquí para leer el comunicado de prensa en español Throughout 2020, a year of global disruption and upheaval, government actors and Colombian civil society members continued to advance implementation…
The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies celebrates the graduation of 31 undergraduate seniors who completed either a supplementary major or minor in peace studies, 2 undergraduate students who completed the supplementary major in global affairs with a concentration…
The Keough School of Global Affairs has awarded the Hesburgh Global Fellowship to María José Daza Bohórquez and the Raymond C. Offenheiser Fellowship to Margaret Adomako. Daza and Adomako, from Colombia and Ghana, respectively, are members of the Master of Global Affairs Class of 2021. Created in…
The 2021 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference, the first to be held virtually, drew over 180 attendees from 46 universities and colleges. Attendees represented higher education institutions in 19 different countries, including Canada, China, Colombia, the Gambia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malta, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Serbia, South Africa,...
The newly published book, In Their Own Words: Christian Leadership for Such a Time as This, presents the stories of eight Christian peacebuilders and leaders from the East Africa Great Lakes region. The stories were shared during interviews with co-authors Emmanuel Katongole,…
Amaryst Parks, a Ph.D. student in peace studies and sociology at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, is the recipient of a prestigious three-year Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
During an April 15, 2021, address, Pope Francis cited a book published by the Kroc Institute's Contending Modernities initiative.
The Notre Dame Student Peace Conference, endowed by Joan B. Kroc and sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, is an annual gathering organized by students and for students. Its mission is to provide space for graduate…
Notre Dame junior Matthew Bisner has been elected undergraduate student body vice president for the 2021-22 academic year. Bisner and his running mate, Allan Njomo, won with 51.18% of the votes in an election that saw the highest student voter turnout in three years, according to The Observer, Notre Dame’s...
For the first time since its inception, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies will host its innovative Summer Institute for Faculty (SI) virtually, a move that organizers made in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic also forced the cancellation of what was to be the 12th annual...
When Notre Dame’s spring semester began on February 3, the 33 members of the Master of Global Affairs Class of 2022 were able to attend in-person classes together for the first time. Due to pandemic-related travel restrictions in the United States throughout the fall 2020 semester, many international…
Since 2017, the Madrasa Discourses project, part of the Contending Modernities initiative at the University of Notre Dame, has been engaging young Islamic religious leaders from India and Pakistan in conversation about pluralism, modern science, and technological advances. These efforts have grown…
On January 27, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the iconic Doomsday Clock would remain at 100 seconds from midnight. This measurement, the closest to midnight the clock has ever been, emphasizes that the combined threats of climate change and unchecked nuclear weapons…
The Peace Accords Matrix Program (PAM), part of the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, has released its first report monitoring the implementation of 80 stipulations within the 2016 Colombian Peace Agreement related to ethnic communities across the country.
For Alisher Khamidov, the awareness of conflict is not new. Growing up in Kyrgyzstan, he was a first-hand witness to acts of violence and lived in a context that was fraught with ethnic conflict since before his birth. However, it was these very experiences with violence that laid the groundwork...
When searching for an organization to work with during her second year of studies at the University of Notre Dame, Helina Haile knew that she wanted to work alongside an organization focused on systemic racism in the United States. Her search led her to the Chicago Torture Justice Center (CTJC),...
