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Doctoral students Heather M. DuBois (theology & peace studies), Chris Haw (theology & peace studies), and Michael Yankoski (theology & peace studies) have been named Steven D. Pepe Ph.D. Fellows in Peace Studies for the 2017–2018 academic year.

Two Notre Dame Ph.D. students in peace studies have been named Mullen Family Fellows for the 2017-18 academic year.

Doctoral student Ana Sanchez-Ramirez has been named as the 2017 – 2018 Darby Fellow.

The Kroc Institute is pleased to announce its doctoral candidates seeking academic appointments.

Five Kroc Institute undergraduates used summer grants and internshios to gain valuable experience around the world.

The Puzzle of Peace: The Evolution of Peace in the International System (Oxford University Press), co-authored by Gary Goertz, Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies; Paul F. Diehl; and Alexandru Balas, was recently named a finalist for the 2017 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award.

Emmanuel Katongole has recently published two books on the Christian social imagination: Born from Lament: The Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa and The Journey of Reconciliation: Groaning for a New Creation in Africa.

Rising senior Bridget Rickard, a Philosophy and Peace Studies major with a minor in the Catholic Social Tradition, has just concluded a trifecta of internships. 

The International Peace Studies concentration in the Master of Global Affairs includes 16 students from 13 countries. The new cohort of students join a global network of more than 500 master’s graduates addressing violent conflict and peace, human rights and human development, environmental sustainability, and related issues.

The Kroc Institute is pleased to announce that three scholars have begun their terms as visiting research fellows during the 2017-18 academic year.

Sarah Bueter, with successive internships now under her belt, has returned to campus for her senior year as a Peace Studies and Theology major with a minor in the Catholic Social Tradition.

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

Madrasa Discourses and Notre Dame students plunged headlong into discussions of secularism, gender equity, and fundamentalism at the July Summer Intensive.

Four recent Ph.D.s reflect on how their dual degrees and training at the Kroc Institute helped them secure coveted tenure-track positions and prepare them to teach.

Thirty-six faculty from 14 educational institutions from the United States and around the world attended the Kroc Institute’s 9th annual Summer Institute for Faculty, "Teaching Peace in the 21st Century," held at Notre Dame from June 19-23, 2017.

Isabella Cajiao Garcés remembers feeling a daily terror that her father would be kidnapped by Colombian guerrillas who targeted doctors for ransom money. In the rural areas outside her home city of Pereira, the practice was so common that he carried a fake credential identifying him as a high school...

David Cortright of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies kept one of his most important meetings in Bogotá this morning in a week crowded with important appointments and developments. Today's meeting was with Msgr. Hector Fabio Henao, director of the Pastoral Social of the Colombian conference of Catholic...

The Kroc Institute recently held a special event to honor 17 graduates of the master’s in international peace studies program.

The Kroc Institute recently held a special event to honor 42 graduating peace studies seniors who majored or minored in peace studies.

Five Kroc undergraduates were the recipients of prestigious awards this year.