Activism

  • A Conversation with Yasser Payne

    Season 2 Episode 4
    Published: 2021-11-11
    Length: 68:35
    Hosts: Ashley Bohrer, Justin de Leon

    Ashley and Justin talk with Yasser Payne, Associate Professor of Sociology & Africana Studies at the University of Delaware. They talk about Dr. Payne's ethnographic research program which is centered on exploring resilience on the streets of Black and Brown America using the Street Participatory Action Research (Street PAR) methodology—the process of involving street-identified persons or members of this population in the process of activist-based research.

    Topics: Activism, Intersectionality, Pedagogy, Race, Resilience, Street Participatory Action Research methodology

  • Activism for LGBTQ Inclusion on the Notre Dame Campus

    Episode 63
    Published: 2022-08-27
    Length: 46:28
    Hosts: Marty Kennedy

    Marty Kennedy, a 2022 graduate of the undergraduate program in peace studies, talks with peace studies alums and current students about the history and present state of both activism and scholarship for the inclusion of LGBTQ persons on the University of Notre Dame campus.

    Guests include Alex Coccia (B.A. '14), Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for the Study of Social Policy in Washington, D.C.; Connor Hayes (B.A. '16), Legal Fellow with the ACLU of Pennsylvania; and Flora Tang (B.A. '18), Ph.D. student in peace studies and theology.

    Topics: Activism, Alumni, Gender, LGBTQ, Peace Studies Students

  • Introducing the Accomplice Project

    Episode 42
    Published: 2021-08-13
    Length: 57:23
    Hosts: Laurie Nathan

    Laurie Nathan, Director of the Mediation Program at the Kroc Institute talks with Notre Dame undergraduate and graduate students and alumni who have been instrumental in creating the new Accomplice project and website. This site, supported by the Mediation Program, is an effort to elevate decolonial scholarship, conversations, and activism related to the University of Notre Dame.

    Panelists include Fiana Arbab, Liam Maher, Josie Flanagan, and Jack Boland. Visit the Accomplice Project website at sites.nd.edu/accomplice-project.

    Topics: Accomplice, Activism, Alumni, Decoloniality, Graduate, Mediation Program, Undergraduate

  • Justin Interviews Ashley

    Season 1 Episode 6
    Published: 2020-12-15
    Length: 22:42
    Hosts: Justin de Leon

    Our co-hosts turn the mics back to each other. In this episode, co-host Justin de Leon interviews Ashley Bohrer, who, in addition to hosting this podcast, serves as assistant professor of gender and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. They discuss Ashley's road to academia, how activism and other experiences inform her teaching, and being real and emotional intelligence in the classroom.

    Topics: Academia, Activism, Emotional Intelligence, Intersectionality, Pedagogy

  • Peace Policy Spotlight: Youth Leading Peacebuilding Efforts in Indianapolis

    Episode 57
    Published: 2022-05-09
    Length: 38:36
    Hosts: Siobhán McEvoy-Levy

    This is one of three episodes dedicated to conversations with the authors of recent Peace Policy articles focusing on the importance of including youth in peacebuilding efforts throughout the U.S. and around the world. Cat Bolten, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute, is the guest editor for this issue of Peace Policy.

    This episode features a conversation between Siobhán McEvoy-Levy, Professor of Political Science and Peace and Conflict Studies at Butler University and Director of the Desmond Tutu Peace Lab, and her co-authors, Cambria C. Khayat, a senior undergraduate student at Butler University, and Julio Trujillo, a first year Children’s Law Fellow at Loyola Law School, Chicago, and a 2021 graduate of Butler University.

    Read all articles at peacepolicy.nd.edu. 

    Topics: Activism, Desmond Tutu Peace Lab, Environment, Youth in Peacebuilding

  • Reflections on Environmental Peacebuilding, COP26 and Faith-Informed Work

    Episode 49
    Published: 2022-01-06
    Length: 42:09
    Hosts: Fr. Emmanuel Katongole

    Emmanuel Katongole, professor of theology and peace studies, talks with recent peace studies graduate and climate activist Elsa Barron (B.A. '21) who attended the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) in November 2021. Here they discuss their commitments to environmental peacebuilding, Katongole's work with the Bethany Land Institute in Uganda, the ways faith informs their environmental commitments, and the future of climate change activism.

    Barron also produces the Olive Shoot podcast, where this episode will also air. 

    Topics: Activism, Alumni, Environment, Peacebuilding, Uganda, United Nations, United Nations Climate Change Conference