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The 2016 Prize, awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, is "in line with the will of Alfred Nobel,” Wallensteen says.

Professor Cat Bolten was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) for the spring 2017 semester.

Doctoral students Francis Bonenfant and Ji Eun Kim have been named the Steven D. Pepe Ph.D. Fellows in Peace Studies for the 2016–2017 academic year.

Doctoral students Colleen Cross and Katherine Grein have been named Mullen Family Fellows for the 2016-17 academic year.

Doctoral students Angela Chesler and Steven Savides have been named the first recipients of the Darby Fellowship.

The Kroc Institute is pleased to announce that four scholars specializing in conflict and peace have begun their terms as visiting research fellows during the 2016-17 academic year.

The historic Colombia peace agreement announced on Aug. 24 gives the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies primary responsibility for technical verification and monitoring of implementation of the accord through the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) Barometer initiative.

Five new students in four disciplines recently began the Kroc Institute’s interdisciplinary doctoral program in peace studies.

Jason Springs, associate professor of religion, ethics and peace studies, has been appointed director of doctoral studies at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute, effective July 1, 2016.

A new book, “The Puzzle of Peace” by Gary Goertz, Paul F. Diehl, and Alexandru Balas moves beyond defining peace as the absence of war and develops a broader conceptualization and explanation for the increasing peacefulness of the international system.

The University of Notre Dame’s new Donald R. Keough School of Global Affairs announces the opening of applications for its inaugural academic program, the two-year professional Master of Global Affairs.

It’s a highly anticipated time of year — when master’s students in peace studies spend nearly 6 months working as interns and conducting field research at international organizations.

A new book edited by Heinz-Gerhard Justenhoven and Mary Ellen O’Connell offers reflections on Pope John XXIII’s peace encyclical Pacem in Terris from the disciplines of philosophy, law, theology, and political science.

This year's Summer Institute was co-sponsored by the Kroc Institute and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington, D.C.

On May 24th and 25th, 40 bishops, Catholic scholars, and policy specialists from nine countries gathered in London to identify issues that need to be addressed to create the conditions for a world without nuclear weapons.

The Kroc Institute recently held two special events to honor 44 graduating peace studies seniors who majored or minored in peace studies and 21 graduates of the master’s in international peace studies program.

The Kroc Institute is pleased to announce Notre Dame seniors Teresa Kennedy and Connor Hayes as the recipients of the 2016 Yarrow Award in Peace Studies.

The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies is delighted to share that peace studies junior Caleb “C.J.” Pine has been named a 2016 Truman Scholar.

Professor Ebrahim Moosa has launched a three-year project to enrich scientific and theological literacy among recent graduates of Islamic seminaries in India.

From April 13-16, the Kroc Institute hosted three dozen peacebuilding specialists from Catholic Relief Services and its partners for CRS' 17th annual Summer Institute of Peacebuilding (SIP).