Graduate
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Insights into The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission
Today’s episode features three current Master of Global Affairs, International Peace Studies students in conversation about their work as members of The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission. The conversation is hosted by Euda Fils, and the guests include Catherine Patricia Jassey, Musu Bakoto Sawo, and Safiatou Touray. All four are members of the MGA-IPS Class of 2023.
Listeners should note that this episode does include frank discussions of sexual violence and other atrocities that the TRRC encountered during their work.
Topics: Graduate, Sexual violence, The Gambia, Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission, Violence
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Introducing the Accomplice Project
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
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Journalism and Peacebuilding: A Discussion on the Significance of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
Anne Hayner, Associate Director for Alumni Relations here at the Kroc Institute., talks with Kroc Institute faculty, alums, and current students about the significance of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. The 2021 Prize was awarded to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, journalists from the Philippines and Russia respectively.
Guests for this episode include Peter Wallensteen, the Richard G. Starmann Sr. Research Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Senior Professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Sweden’s Uppsala University; Obi Anyadike (M.A. '97), Senior Africa Editor for The New Humanitarian; Jason Subler (M.A. '98), General Manager for Asia with Reuters; and Sarah Nanjala, a journalist from Kenya and a current Master of Global Affairs, International Peace Studies student.
Topics: Alumni, Graduate, Journalism, Nobel Peace Prize
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Religion and Broken Solidarities
In this episode, Contending Modernities editor and writer Josh Lupo and Professor Atalia Omer, Co-Director of Contending Modernities, interview three contributors to their edited volume, Religion and Broken Solidarities: Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism. The volume explores distinct moments in time across various geopolitical settings when solidarity failed to be realized between marginalized communities because of differences of race, nationalism, religion, and/or ethnicity. These contributions are intended to open up paths for imagining new forms of solidarity now and in the future.
In conversation with Ruth Carmi (Ph.D. '23), the editors discuss the reasons why alliances between Mizrahi Jews and Palestinians have been so difficult to achieve, in spite of both groups’ marginalization by the Israeli government. With Brenna Moore, they reflect upon Black Catholic attempts to create transnational partnerships that challenged the White Protestant status quo in early twentieth-century geopolitics. Finally, with Melani McAlister, they consider the role of the literary imagination in helping us contemplate paths beyond the trappings of our current political order.
In each of these exchanges, the authors also reflect on their findings in light of the current political moment, rather it be in the recent challenges to the authority of the supreme court in Israel, the Black Lives Matter protests of Summer 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, or in the growing calls to substantively address the threat of climate change. What is revealed in these conversations is that challenging the structures that marginalize the most vulnerable in our society requires an intersectional analysis that refuses to treat any marker of identity or belonging as siloed off from others.
Topics: Contending Modernities, Contending Modernities Initiative, Graduate, Religion
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The Colbri Center and the Search for Missing Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Current Master of Global Affairs, International Peace Studies student Cristian Sáez Flórez interviews Mirza Monterroso and Isabella Fassi, staff members at the Colibrí Center for Human Rights, where Cristian has been completing his six-month peacebuilding internship. The Colibrí Center works to create a safe, humane, and effective process for help families of missing migrants to find answers.
Topics: Colbri Center, Graduate, Migrants, Missing, U.S.-Mexico Border
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The Coronavirus Crisis through Gender, Environmental, Anthropological and Indigenous Lenses
Kroc Institute Director, Asher Kaufman, talks with Kroc Institute faculty members, researchers, and graduate students about aspects of the current Coronavirus crisis, including gender, environmental, anthropological and indigenous considerations.
Topics: Coronavirus, Environment, Gender, Graduate, Intersectionality, Native Studies
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