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University of Notre Dame alumnus Khan Shairani has been selected for the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship Program.

Rome is well known as the headquarters of the Catholic Church and the environs of Vatican City. But it also is home to a cadre of lesser-known but influential Catholic organizations engaged in global peacebuilding work. Notre Dame undergraduates who took the course “Catholic Approaches to War…

After a multi-year hiatus imposed by the pandemic, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, is relaunching its heralded Summer Institute. Set to take place May 20-24, 2025, the gathering has been rebranded with a modified name and focus to meet…

The 2024 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference disrupted more than just dualities; in many ways it broke barriers in terms of number of submissions and attendees, bringing together students from around the world to share their passion for peace studies. The conference, a signature event of the…

With the theme, Reinvigorating Nuclear Disarmament, the third annual Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament (AMC) Conference took place at Sweden’s Uppsala University June 18-19. It continued to attract a large international audience, including several participants from the Kroc Institute…

Alumni, staff, faculty, graduate students, and visiting and faculty fellows from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Keough School of Global Affairs made a significant footprint at the 2024…

June 27, 2024 As a college student in the early 1970s, Oletha Jones started to feel a bit guilty seeing her father, a construction worker, struggle to pay tuition amid the ups and downs of the construction industry. Even though higher education was a priority in her…

Building on its international success and reputation in peace accords monitoring, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and its Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) program have launched their next global project: …

Nearly three dozen University of Notre Dame students have been named finalists, and another eight alternates, for the 2024-25 Fulbright U.S. Student Program. The finalists include 26 undergraduate students and eight graduate students.

The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies celebrated the 2024 graduation of its undergraduate seniors who completed either a supplementary major or minor in peace studies, undergraduate students who completed the supplementary major in global affairs with a concentration in international…

Two students stand out not only for their academic prowess but for their unwavering commitment to fostering peace and justice in a world often fraught with conflict. Analina Barnes and Lina Abdellatif are this year’s recipients of the prestigious 2024 Yarrow…

From May 31-June 2, in Plymouth, Michigan, the Catholic Peacebuilding Network gathered a working group of women peacebuilders to discuss ways to advance women’s leadership in Catholic peacebuilding.

The Kroc Institute’s renowned joint Ph.D. programs, which integrates the study of peace with one of six traditional disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, prides itself on creating graduates who become scholar-practitioners and academics. To help foster students interested…

The University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs and the Organization of American States have launched a new partnership to strengthen democracy and defend human rights efforts across Latin America. To that end, the institutions will collaborate on joint research and policy projects, exchange faculty experts and train...

Protest movements that reject political parties have an unintended consequence, according to research co-authored by a Keough School faculty expert: They empower savvy politicians, who channel them to shake up the status quo. The findings provide a framework for understanding recent global…

The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies acknowledges the achievements of our current graduate students, who are being honored with awards and fellowships. The following accolades reflect our students’ dedication to their academic pursuits and also provide valuable support for their future…

When the historic Colombian peace accord was signed in 2016, ending more than a half-century of violent conflict, Notre Dame’s Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) was charged with monitoring and measuring its implementation through its Barometer…

Haga clic aquí para leer la noticia en Español >>> At the end of its seventh year, implementation of the 2016 Colombian Peace Accord is at a crucial moment, marking the halfway point toward realizing the envisioned transformation and lasting…

Mary Gallagher, the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Chair in Democracy, Democratization and Human Rights and director of the International Institute at the University of Michigan, has been appointed the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs by University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. Gallagher, who will...

On April 12 and 13, the 2024 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies grappled with the theme “Peace by Piece: Disrupting Dualities in Peacebuilding.” This year’s keynote speaker,…