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The Kroc Institute is pleased to welcome Bahar Baser as a visiting research fellow during the Spring 2019 semester.

John Paul Lederach has been selected as the recipient of the 36th Niwano Peace Prize. Lederach is professor emeritus of international peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and a senior fellow at Humanity United. The annual award, presented by the Japan-based Niwano Peace...

Notre Dame junior Elizabeth Boyle has been elected undergraduate student body president for the 2019-20 academic year. Boyle, a political science major with a supplementary major in peace studies, is the sixth peace studies student to be elected student body president or vice president since 2012.

Mary Ellen O’Connell, Robert & Marion Short Professor of Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame, will lecture on artificial intelligence, weapons, and international law this week at The Hague in the Netherlands.

Over 200 participants filled the University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Auditorium (plus overflow space) for a Friday, January 25, panel discussion entitled “Confronting Whiteness at Notre Dame: Power, Identity, and Exclusion.”

The Kroc Institute announces plans for an interdisciplinary conference, “Building Sustainable Peace: Ideas, Evidence, Strategies,” to be held November 8-10, 2019, on the University of Notre Dame campus.   The conference grows out of the Institute’s five-year strategic plan…

The Kroc Institute Mediation Program has been involved in the production of a new policy research report on mediation and power-sharing. Mediation Program Director Laurie Nathan and Visiting Fellow David Lanz have been investigating the role of mediation in the long-term performance of power-sharing arrangements in peace agreements.…

The Mediation Program at the Kroc Institute welcomes David Lanz as a Visiting Fellow during the Spring 2019 semester.

A summer internship with the Arms Control Association in Washington DC fueled the passion to work at global arms control issues for senior peace studies student Monica Montgomery. 

Kroc Institute faculty members Laurie Nathan and Peter Wallensteen have made instrumental contributions to a new three-volume report, Rethinking Society for the 21st Century, published by the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP).

Fr. Emmanuel Katongole, Professor of Theology and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Keough School of Global Affairs, was honored by weekly Catholic publication The Tablet as one of “Fifty Minds That Matter.”

As a student-athlete, Rebecca Nunge, a science preprofessional studies (pre-med) major with a minor in peace studies and a senior outside hitter on the University of Notre Dame volleyball team, has spent most of her summers on campus — taking classes and training with teammates. But it was only recently...

The 2019 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference Committee announces this year’s conference theme, “Expanding Circles: Peace in a Polarized Age?” The conference will take place March 29-30, 2019.

A new report published on October 31 reveals that stipulations in Colombia’s Peace Accord centered on gender equality and women’s rights are being implemented, but more slowly than other provisions within the accord.

Professor Laurie Nathan, Mediation Program Director and Professor of the Practice of Mediation, has been awarded a contract to develop a Mediation Protocol for the Intergovernmental Authority on Development. 

Seven peace studies Ph.D. students have been awarded named fellowships funded by Kroc Institute Advisory Board members.

Ukraine is on the brink of war-related environmental disaster according to new research published by two Kroc Institute doctoral students. Kristina Hook and Richard Marcantonio, both doctoral candidates in anthropology and peace studies, published their research in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on October 16.

Patrick Regan, Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies, was instrumental in the creation of the Urban Adaptation Assessment, an open-source, free measurement and analysis tool that explores a city’s ability to adapt and readiness for adaptation to climate change.

Professor Ebrahim Moosa and the Madrasa Discourses program were featured in the October 12 University of Notre Dame "What Would You Fight For?" video. 

Victoria Nyanjura, a student in the Master of Global Affairs, International Peace Studies program, is a first place recipient of the Navarra International Solidarity Award. Organized by the Government of Navarre, Spain, and Laboral Kutxa, a Spanish credit union, the award recognizes  people, NGO’s, and institutions whose work advances the...