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-17 posts tagged "peace"
Vince Mallett | Friday, March 12, 2021
Last week, Pope Francis became the first Catholic pope to visit Iraq. Throughout his visit, he gave a series of remarks that repeatedly emphasized one theme: peaceful fraternity between different religious groups. The Pope pulled no punches and made no equivocations about the absolute need for peace in the search for justice, remarking in his
Genevieve Coleman | Thursday, October 22, 2020
The Saint Mary’s Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership (CWIL) hosted Notre Dame gender studies professor Ashley Bohrer who spoke in a presentation titled “Disturbing the Peace: A Feminist Defense of Conflict in a Time of Rebellion“ on Wednesday as a part of International Education Week. The talk was co-sponsored by the gender and women’s studies
Tom Naatz | Friday, November 1, 2019
In 2016, the Colombian government signed a peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist rebel group. The accord ended a five-decade long civil war in the South American country in which 220,000 Colombians died. While many groups have a hand in overseeing the accord’s implementation, one such group working on
Alexandra Park | Monday, September 17, 2018
Notre Dame prides itself on being a research institution and one of its research projects is having a direct, real-time impact on international peace affairs. The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies has been using its academic research on peace accords to work with the nation of Colombia to monitor and track the implementation of
Teagan Dillon | Tuesday, March 6, 2018
As part of their design studio, nine architecture students are engaging in a semester-long project aimed towards reconstructing Aleppo, Syria, a city destroyed by years of civil war. Associate professor of architecture Lucien Steil, who leads the project, said it aligns with the University’s mission of using architecture to create a better world. “Taking a
Nicholas Marr | Sunday, November 5, 2017
After Sen. Flake announced he will not be seeking re-election, the question must be asked: What is the future of conservatism? Not the “conservatism” that some have mistakenly labeled as the philosophy which guides the current Republican Party with Donald Trump as its standard-bearer, but true conservatism championed by people like William F. Buckley, Ronald
Letter to the Editor | Friday, September 1, 2017
During my time working in South Sudan, I got a chance to work closely with refugees. Mainly women and children, these people had to flee from their homes with nothing. While I was working at the school where many of the refugee children attended, I would often try to make conversation with the students. One
Arthur Zhao | Friday, March 3, 2017
Laurie Nathan, a visiting research fellow from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, lectured on international mediation — a form of conflict management in which mediators abide by specified objectives, strategies and norms — at Hesburgh Center on Friday. Nathan said locating literature on the topic is an arduous task, which makes it difficult for people to understand the level
Elizabeth Hascher | Tuesday, August 30, 2016
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.” When Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke these words, the United States was embattled in a struggle to ensure the
Scott Boyle | Monday, March 14, 2016
Most professionals don’t get a spring break. I was reminded of this reality as I walked Notre Dame’s quiet campus after students left for service trips, sunny beaches and everything in between just over a week ago. But, the quiet of campus was the catalyst I needed to take some intentional time to slow down.