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In October 2022, 10 finalists participated in roundtable discussions as candidates for Registrar of the International Criminal Court (ICC). One finalist, Rosette Muzigo-Morrison…

The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame has launched the Legacy Project, a new initiative to migrate a digital archive of more than 200,000 audiovisual and textual materials from the Colombian Truth Commission…

Notre Dame anthropologist Catherine “Cat” Bolten has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to support the writing of her book that examines links between food insecurity, human population growth and wildlife depletion, land politics and degradation, and climate change in Sierra Leone. The associate professor of anthropology...

Editor’s Note: The new year dawned amid more destruction in Ukraine. Anna Romandash, a Ukrainian journalist and recent graduate of the Keough School of Global Affairs, offers this dispatch about her home country’s resilience, echoing her story in our winter issue…

“Allow me to tell you, from my own experience,” said Juan Manuel Santos, delivering the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Lecture as the president of Colombia, “that it is much harder to make peace than to wage war.” The mistaken notion Santos alluded to ­— that peace comes easily — is...

Lenai Taylor Johnson (MGA ’22) isn’t sure how much people know about peace and security issues related to nuclear weapons, but she is working to ensure they know more—even using Instagram and TikTok to broach the topic with younger, more diverse groups.…

The international community should leverage the insights of everyday Afghans to design bottom-up approaches to aid and development and negotiate a political settlement that promotes government accountability. That was the consensus among speakers at a recent panel discussion at the Keough School Washington Office…

Isabel Güiza-Gómez, (Ph.D. student in Peace Studies and Political Science) was recently awarded an Alejandro Angel Escobar Prize in Human and Social Science by Fundación Alejandro Ángel Escobar for her book, La Constitución del Campesinado. Luchas por reconocimiento y redistribución en el campo jurídico…

Valerie Hickey, a 2000 graduate of the International Peace Studies Master’s program at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected to receive the Kroc Institute’s 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award. Hickey serves as a Global Director for Environment, Natural Resources and the Blue Economy at the World Bank. Throughout her...

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 (MGA-IPS). These students are part of the Keough School’s master of global affairs...

The Center for Social Concerns introduced its inaugural cohort of 14 Notre Dame graduate students to the Graduate Scholars program. Among those selected were two current Peace Studies doctoral students at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Helal Khan …

Gwendolyn Purifoye has joined the core faculty of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies as assistant professor of racial justice and conflict transformation. She is one of seven new faculty members appointed by the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs…

Former Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos, who led the signing of the historic 2016 Colombian peace agreement and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts, shared insights on peace processes, leadership, and conflict transformation with Notre Dame students and faculty during a weeklong visit at the Keough School of...

Five new students representing four disciplines recently began the Kroc Institute’s interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Peace Studies. Incoming students were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants from around the world. 

The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies is pleased to announce that five scholars began their terms as visiting research fellows at the start of the 2022-23 academic year.

Notre Dame Peace Studies grad Drew Marcantonio is bringing his expertise in peacebuilding and environmental research to one of Mendoza's most prominent programs: Business on the Frontlines.

Juan Manuel Santos will teach in the Keough School’s Master of Global Affairs and undergraduate programs, and will deliver the 29th annual Hesburgh Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 13 (Tuesday) in the Decio Theatre at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. The lecture is free but ticketed,...

The new edited volume Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice (Oxford University Press, 2022) brings together interdisciplinary authors to explore the ethical questions, dilemmas and obligations that both activists and academics have to confront in the midst of work to build a more just and...

Beginning this month, second-year Keough School of Global Affairs (MGA) students with a concentration in International Peace Studies (IPS) departed for six-month field experiences with partner organizations around the world. The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies administers the IPS concentration and facilitates these experiences.…

The Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society introduced its inaugural cohort of 10 Notre Dame Ph.D. students to the Lucy Scholars program. Among those selected were two current Peace Studies doctoral students at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Cat Gargano and Wesley Hedden. Both students are advised by core Kroc Institute faculty...