The fall 2025 semester saw the arrival of six new doctoral students at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs. Four of the incoming students make up the first cohort of the newly launched international peace studies doctoral program, with the…
The Keough School of Global Affairs is welcoming four distinguished visiting professors of the practice, bringing decades of policy experience to the school and deepening its ties in Washington, D.C. The new faculty will work closely with students and colleagues on research, teaching and initiatives that advance the school’s priorities...
Taking the “summer off” isn’t quite the right phrase to describe the Mediation Program at the Kroc Institute, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs. Rather, the break from teaching commitments from June to August at the University of Notre Dame allowed Laurie Nathan, director of the Mediation…
This fall, the Keough School of Global Affairs welcomed a diverse group of undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students who bring global experience and a shared commitment to tackling today’s pressing challenges—from climate change to post-conflict peacebuilding. Among them are national debate champions,…
Paul Kyumin Lee is a Ph.D. student at the University of Notre Dame studying peace studies and sociology, reflects on a recent trip to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings that devastated the cities. He is primarily interested in the intergenerational transmission of trauma...
The Notre Dame Poverty Initiative has announced a new round of multi-year investments that will support high-impact, poverty-related research projects led by Notre Dame faculty in multiple disciplines. The Initiative’s…
In this conversation, scholar and imam A. Rashied Omar shares how religion and peace have shaped his life's work, from resisting Apartheid in 1970s South Africa to researching and teaching peace studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Today, on the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Father Dowd offered remarks at the Elisabeth University of Music as a guest of its president, Yuji Kawano, and Bishop Alexis Mitsuru Shirahama of Hiroshima. Father Dowd focused on the role that universities can play in addressing the current nuclear predicament...
The Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good, formerly the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, continues its support of innovative research in the College of Arts & Letters with a new name and expanded mission. Seventeen faculty members…
Twenty-two University of Notre Dame students have been named finalists for the 2025-26 Fulbright U.S. Student Program, with another seven singled out as alternates for the award. The finalists include 18 undergraduate students and four graduate students.
Joryán Hernández, a peace studies and theology doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame, was tapped as the first-ever recipient of the Sr. Dianna Ortiz, OSU Peacemaker Award from Pax…
At its annual meeting in June in Portland, Ore., the Catholic Theological Society of America named Flora Tang, a peace studies and theology doctoral candidate at the University of Notre…
Partial peace agreements — deals that address targeted issues on the way to larger comprehensive accords — could provide a blueprint for peacebuilding policymakers and practitioners, according to new University of Notre Dame research.
A new policy blueprint from Notre Dame researcher Lisa Schirch outlines how prosocial technology design can counter online misinformation and polarization. Backed by eight years of research, the plan offers concrete steps to strengthen democracy and civic trust.
Nearly half the commitments outlined in Colombia's historic peace accord face significant challenges and may not happen in time unless policymakers make several key interventions, a new report from the University of Notre Dame warns. The report…
More than 60 participants from around the world visited the University of Notre Dame in late May as part of the Strategic Peacebuilding Academy hosted by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the …
