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Jósephine Lechartre, Ph.D. '24 in Peace Studies and Political Science

Fatima Faisal Khan, a 2024 graduate of the Keough School’s Master of Global Affairs program, works as an associate for ecosystem trust and safety at the Institute for Security and Technology, a think tank that provides impactful solutions to pressing technological issues. In this conversation, she shares how her experience and...

After surviving war in Ukraine, Khrystyna Kozak reflects on her Notre Dame Master of Global Affairs journey and unexpected path to peace and justice.

The world's largest polluters are also the safest from the environmental damage they help create — while the countries least to blame face the greatest threats, including the increased possibility of violent conflict. These findings, from a new study co-authored by a University of Notre Dame researcher, highlight inequalities that harm...

“Spring break” for many Notre Dame faculty, staff and students translates to a week-long getaway – often somewhere warm. Others stay local and enjoy a quieter week on campus, working or studying. For students in the Master…

Graduating master of global affairs students Beverly Ndifoin and Megan Reamy have each been selected as a recipient of a 2025 Hesburgh Global Fellowship.

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In a unique blend of art and activism, Olivia Seymour, a film, television, and theatre major and peace studies minor, recently wrote an original musical, “Heart on Fire,” as part of the University of Notre Dame's musical theatre program. It premiered at DeBartolo Performing Arts…

Speaking as part of the 2024-25 Notre Dame Forum, Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor and director of the Allen Lab…

As the much-anticipated annual Notre Dame Student Peace Conference approaches, we sat down with the student organizers, Aria Bossone, an American studies major and peace studies supplementary major, and Eva (Evie) Garces-Foley, an anthropology major with supplementary majors in peace studies and Spanish, to get an inside look at what...

A recent intercultural encounter in Rome enabled Notre Dame students to learn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by meeting and talking with people who have lived through it. The trip, which built upon a Notre Dame class and a related Notre Dame Forum Series, reflects the University's larger focus on civil dialogue...

The Journal of Disappearance Studies, in collaboration with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the Kroc…

In the new article, “What Remains of Law Against War,” Notre Dame Law Professor Mary Ellen O'Connell places the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the top of a long list of international lawbreakers worldwide and states, “The law against war appears to be dead.”

Three decades after first stepping onto Notre Dame’s campus, Fatima Shabodien finds herself in a familiar place of transition. As a young South African student in the master’s program for international peace studies (now the Master…

Khrystyna Kozak, a human rights lawyer specializing in displacement, was working for a nongovernmental humanitarian organization in Kyiv, Ukraine, on the morning of Feb. 24, 2022, when Russian forces invaded the country from multiple directions, sparking a brutal war that has claimed hundreds of thousands…

A Kroc Institute co-founder remembers how Father Ted, in his inimitable way, brought a vision for peace studies at Notre Dame to fruition.

Sarah Nanjala, a 2022 graduate of the Keough School’s Master of Global Affairs program, works for gender equality in her role with U.N. Women in Geneva. In this conversation, Nanjala shares how her education prepared her to leverage her passion for human rights and advocate for equality on the global stage.

When Alberto Solís Castro and Emily Tatum graduated from Notre Dame’s Master of Global Affairs program in 2023, they gained more than prestigious professional degrees — they found in each other a partner for life. A friendship…