Peace Policy

  • Peace Policy Spotlight: A Case for Focusing on Youth in Peacebuilding Efforts

    Episode 56
    Published: 2022-04-26
    Length: 13:19
    Hosts: Catherine Bolten

    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.

    In this episode, Cat Bolten interviews Prashan de Visser, author of one of this issue's articles and founder of Global Unites, an organization that aims to inspire, connect and equip youth to transform global societies through movements promoting nonviolence and reconciliation. 

    Read all the articles in this month's issue at peacepolicy.nd.edu. 

    Topics: Global Unites, Nonviolence, Peace Policy, Reconciliation, Youth in Peacebuilding

  • 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: 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

  • Peace Policy Spotlight: Migration, The Rights of the Child, and Climate Change

    Episode 36
    Published: 2021-04-01
    Length: 29:50
    Hosts: Erin Corcoran

    Erin Corcoran, executive director of the Kroc Institute and associate teaching professor at the Keough School, 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 issues related to U.S. immigration and refugee policies, especially at the southern border.

    Guest authors and podcast guests include Kristina Campbell, Professor of Law at the David A. Clarke School of Law, part of the University of the District of Columbia and a 2002 alumna of Notre Dame Law School; and Elizabeth Keyes, Associate Professor of Law at the Immigrant Rights Clinic, part of the University of Baltimore.

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

    Topics: Alumni, Children, Climate change, Immigration policy, Peace Policy, Refugee issues, U.S.-Mexico Border

  • Peace Policy Spotlight: Nuclear War and Climate Change

    Episode 72
    Published: 2023-12-06
    Length: 33:36
    Hosts: Atalia Omer, George Lopez

    This episode is dedicated to our latest issue of Peace Policy, which focuses on the co-mingling of two existential crises of our time: the threat of nuclear war, and potential planetary destruction through climate change.
     
    Atalia Omer, Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies, serves as this year’s faculty editor of Peace Policy. She is joined by George A. Lopez, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies and the guest editor of this Peace Policy issue, for a conversation about essays from our expert contributors, ranging from environmental and nuclear risks in Ukraine, to Pope Francis, to climate change.
     
    Contributors to this issue of Peace Policy include Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; Drew Marcantonio (Ph.D. '21), Department of Management & Organization within the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, as well as a faculty fellow with the Kroc Institute, and Kristina Hook (Ph.D. '20), an assistant professor of Conflict Management with Kennesaw State University in Georgia; and Jerry Powers, director of Catholic Peacebuilding Studies at the Kroc Institute and coordinator of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network.

    Read all articles in this issue at peacepolicy.nd.edu.

    Topics: Climate change, Nuclear, Nuclear disarmament, Peace Policy

  • Peace Policy Spotlight: The Continuing Challenge of Sanctions Policy Reform

    Episode 46
    Published: 2021-12-01
    Length: 51:19
    Hosts: George Lopez

    Professor George Lopez, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute, sits down with the authors of the articles appearing in the December 2021 issue of "Peace Policy" focused on sanctions policy reform in three distinct contexts: Iran, Syria, and Venezuela.

    Guests include Esfandyar Batmanhelidj, Founder and CEO of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation; Francisco Rodríguez, the 2021-22 International Affairs Fellow in International Economics at the Council for Foreign Relations and Director of Oil for Venezuela; and Annie Charif, program associate with The Carter Center’s Conflict Resolution Program and Syria project team.

    On December 6, you can read all articles in this issue at peacepolicy.nd.edu. You can also attend a virtual event on Dec. 6 aimed at discussing the humanitarian impact of sanctions. Learn more and register to attend at go.nd.edu/SanctionsEvent.

    You can also explore more work from the Sanctions and Security Project at sanctionsandsecurity.org.

    Topics: International conflict, Iran, Peace Policy, Sanctions, Sanctions and Security Project, Syria, Venezuela

  • Peace Policy Spotlight: Women and Peacebuilding

    Episode 59
    Published: 2022-05-25
    Length: 1:03:09
    Hosts: Atalia Omer

    In this episode, Atalia Omer, Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies, and one of the guest editors of the most recent issue of Peace Policy focused on the particular role of women in global peacebuilding efforts, talks with authors of all the pieces in this issue.

    Guests include Peace Policy co-editor, Ruth Carmi, current Ph.D. student in peace studies and sociology; Linda Quiquivix, a popular educator of Mayan roots who saves seeds, loves books, and makes art; Sarah Ihmoud, assistant professor of peace and conflict studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts; and Katherine Marshall, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

    Read all articles in this issue at peacepolicy.nd.edu.

    Topics: Gender, Peacebuilding, Peace Policy