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  • Peace Policy Spotlight: Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining

    Episode 52
    Published: 2022-02-15
    Length: 34:13
    Hosts: David Cortright

    David Cortright, Professor Emeritus of the Practice at the Kroc Institute and Editor of the Kroc Institute’s Peace Policy publication sits down to talk with authors from the latest issue. This issue features reflections drawn from the new book, Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining: Integral Peace, Development, and Ecology published by Routledge in January.

    Guests include one of the co-editors of the book and the Assistant Director of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, Caesar Montevecchio; Father Rigobert Minani, S.J., head of research for the Peace, Human Rights, Democracy, and Good Governance Department at the Centre d’Etude Pour l’Action Sociale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and team leader for the Ecclesial Network of the Congo Basin Forest; and Katherine Marshall, Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, and Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue.

    You can read all articles from this issue at peacepolicy.nd.edu.

    Topics: Catholic, Environment, Peacebuilding, Peace Policy

  • Peace Policy Spotlight: Global Counterterrorism Efforts on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11

    Episode 43
    Published: 2021-09-02
    Length: 42:47
    Hosts: David Cortright

    The bitter irony of the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks makes a re-evaluation of U.S. and global counterterrorism policy more urgent than ever. The latest issue of Peace Policy offers perspectives toward that end with essays by Alistair Millar and David Cortright on guidelines for more effective multilateral cooperation against global terrorism, by Lisa Schirch on peacebuilding principles for preventing violent extremism, and by Naureen Chowdhury Fink on the benefits and challenges of incorporating gender perspectives.

    In this podcast, David Cortright moderates a lively conversation among the authors. Read the full issue at peacepolicy.nd.edu.

    Topics: 9/11, Afghanistan, Counterterrorism, Extremism, Gender, International conflict, Taliban, Violence

  • Peace Policy Spotlight: Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement 50 Years Later

    Episode 39
    Published: 2021-06-11
    Length: 42:49
    Hosts: David Cortright

    David Cortright, Director of the Global Policy Initiative and Special Advisor for Policy Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, and Professor Emeritus of the Practice at the Kroc Institute, talks with the authors from the latest issue of "Peace Policy," a quarterly publication of the Kroc Institute that offers research-based insights, commentary, and solutions to the global challenge of violent conflict. The latest issue focuses on the legacy of the Vietnam antiwar movement, especially among service people, and its legacy for social and antiwar movements today.

    Guest authors and podcast guests include Dana Moss, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame and a Faculty Fellow at the Kroc Institute, and Chuck Searcy, an International Advisor with Project RENEW. He is also Co-Chair of the NGO Agent Orange Working Group in Vietnam.

    Read the full episode of Peace Policy at peacepolicy.nd.edu.

    Topics: antiwar movement, Military aggression, Peace Policy, Vietnam

  • Three Years After the Signing of the Final Agreement in Colombia: Moving Toward Territorial Transformation

    Episode 21
    Published: 2020-06-18
    Length: 39:31
    Hosts: David Cortright

    The Barometer Initiative team, part of the Kroc Institute's Peace Accords Matrix Project, is providing real-time monitoring of the Colombian peace accord implementation process. The team just released their fourth comprehensive report on the status of implementation, and discuss the report's main findings.

    Read the full report at peaceaccords.nd.edu/fourthreport. This podcast was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the Barometer Initiative of the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) Program (part of the Kroc Institute) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.

    Topics: Barometer Initiative team, Colombia, Implementation, Peace Accords Matrix Project