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,…
Prompted by increasing mass displacements and humanitarian crises around the globe, an emerging initiative on migration at the University of Notre Dame took a critical step forward on April 25. Eighteen scholars and practitioners from Notre Dame and across the U.S., along with representatives of the…
Helal Khan’s path to becoming an anthropologist who researches peace and justice has taken him all over the world. In his home country of Bangladesh, Khan was an army officer stationed along the Myanmar border. He served…
For 52 long years, Colombia was in turmoil due to a protracted civil war between the Colombian government and the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). When the warring sides signed the historic Colombian peace accord in 2016, Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies…
One of the world’s leading social science organizations has invited a representative from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies to have a seat at the table. Laurie Nathan, director of the Mediation Program at the…
The spring 2024 semester at the Kroc Institute saw the arrival of two visiting research fellows from Catholic Relief Services (CRS), one of the world’s largest humanitarian relief organizations that serves more than 100 countries around the globe. The Kroc Institute…
Grace Connors (Class of 2023), a recent graduate from the Kroc Institute with a major in computer science and a supplementary major in peace studies, has been selected as a spring 2024 Scoville Peace Fellow. The Herbert Scoville…
The University of Notre Dame was the only university participant in a pivotal international seminar held in Accra, Ghana, addressing the theme “Conflicts in Africa in the Context of the Exploitation of Natural and Mining Resources." …
The Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab is pleased to announce the selection of five Notre Dame graduate students for its Tech Ethics Graduate Fellowship program. After a competitive application and evaluation process, the students--including the Kroc Institute’s Will O’Brien (Ph.D. student, peace…
Two Notre Dame undergraduate students, Garrett Pacholl (history and global affairs, peace studies concentration, class of 2024, and 2024 Student Peace Conference co-chair) and Linnea Barron (biology and peace studies, class of 2026), returned from a transformative…
The 2024 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference, themed “Peace by Piece: Disrupting Dualities in Peacebuilding,” is set to take place on April 12-13, 2024, at the University of Notre Dame. This year’s conference received the second-highest…
Kroc Institute Ph.D. candidate, Joséphine Lechartre (peace studies and political science), won second place in the annual Shaheen Three Minute Thesis…
The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) have announced the call for applications for their annual summer Ph.D. course on international mediation. “International Mediation: Theory, Cases and Skills,” will take place in…
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” --Albert Einstein, May 1946 On Tuesday, Jan.…
Call for abstracts due Feb. 16 Afghan scholars and practitioners from around the globe are invited to participate in an upcoming colloquium, “Generating a Political Process in Afghanistan,” to take place at the University of Notre Dame April 25-26. Organized by the American…
University of Notre Dame alumna Becca Blais, a recent Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient for her work at the intersection of data science and politics, has been named a 2023 Samvid Scholar. She is Notre Dame’s first Samvid Scholar and one of just 20 members of this year’s cohort, which...
