News & Events – Keough School – University of Notre Dame

Meet the master of global affairs Class of 2020

October 25, 2018 — The 34 students in the Keough School’s second master of global affairs class, now halfway through their first semester, come from 18 countries and bring diverse academic backgrounds and professional experiences with them to Notre Dame. They have earned degrees in academic disciplines ranging from economics to engineering to English literature, and their professional backgrounds include accountancy, interreligious dialogue, journalism, nuclear disarmament, grassroots peace and justice work, and social entrepreneurship. READ MORE »

Keough School hosts Washington briefing on EU-US relations

October 22, 2018 — The Keough School recently hosted a policy event, “From Brussels to the Beltway: The Future of European-American Relations,” at its Washington office. Focusing on the state of relations between the United States and Europe, the event featured European Union Ambassador to the United States David O’Sullivan. It was co-sponsored by the Washington-based networking organization Irish Network DC and included participation from the Keough School’s Nanovic Institute for European Studies. READ MORE »

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EVENT: Former Executive Director of Christian Peacemaker Teams to Deliver 20th Annual Dialogues on Nonviolence, Religion, and Peace

Sarah Thompson Nahar, 2018 Generations Fellow at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, will deliver the the 20th Annual Dialogues on Nonviolence, Religion, and Peace Lecture on October 25 (Thursday) at 11:00 a.m. in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies Auditorium. Sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, her lecture is titled “Flushing Peace Down the Toilet: Strategies for the End of the World as We Know It.” The event is free and open to the public, and will also be livestreamed via YouTube Live. READ MORE »

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Global leader in environmental issues teaches at Keough School

October 16, 2018 — Atiq Rahman, a leading expert on sustainable development and climate change, recently spent three weeks at the Keough School, teaching master’s and undergraduate-level courses and meeting with faculty. The 2008 recipient of the United Nations “Champion of the Earth” Award, Rahman served as lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when the group was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. READ MORE »

EVENT: Ansari Institute Hosts Inaugural Conference

Join us Thursday, October 25 and Friday, October 26 to celebrate the opening of the Rafat and Zoreen Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion. The institute is hosting a series of inaugural events that are free and open to the public, including a keynote lecture and a daylong conference.

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Peace process expert speaks to master of global affairs students

October 11, 2018 — Thania Paffenholz, director of the Inclusive Peace & Transition Initiative at the Graduate Institute of Geneva, recently visited the Keough School to teach master of global affairs students in their global policy seminar. Paffenholz and students discussed conflicts in Afghanistan, Colombia, Guatemala, Mozambique, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen. She encouraged students to recognize that all actors—local, regional, national, and international—have roles to play in preventing conflict and building peace. READ MORE »

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Diane Desierto appointed associate professor of human rights law and global affairs

September 11, 2018 — A graduate of Yale Law School, Desierto is a scholar of international human rights law whose expertise includes civil and political rights as well as social, cultural, and economic rights. She also is an expert in international economic law, including international trade law, international investment law, and arbitration law. At Notre Dame, Desierto will serve as a member of the faculty advisory committee of the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights, an integral part of the Keough School, and she will take an active role in advancing the Center’s mission. During the 2018-19 academic year, she will teach courses on human rights,sustainability, and the global commons, as well as international law and human rights. READ MORE »

Klau family gift endows the Center for Civil and Human Rights

September 4, 2018 — Rick and Molly Klau of Denver have contributed $10 million to strengthen and endow the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights, which is being re-named in their honor. Founded in 1973 by then University President Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., the Center for Civil and Human Rights is dedicated to the principle that every human being is created in the image of God and therefore has a dignity that merits respect and protection. Now in conjunction with its new home at the Keough School of Global Affairs, the re-named Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights continues the legacy and further strengthens the center’s mission. READ MORE »

Former State Secretary of Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver 2018 Nanovic Forum Lecture

August 30, 2018 — Janne Haaland Matláry, former State Secretary of Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will deliver the 2018 Nanovic Forum Lecture on September 6th (Thursday) at 5:00 p.m. in Carey Auditorium of the Hesburgh Library.Sponsored by Notre Dame’s Nanovic Institute for European Studies, part of the Keough School, Matláry will deliver a lecture titled “A House Divided: European Values and Strategic Ability.” The event is free and open to the public. READ MORE »

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Ban Ki-Moon, eighth U.N. secretary-general, to speak at Asia Leadership Forum

August 28, 2018 — Secretary Ban will deliver the lecture “The United Nations and Global Citizenship” on Sept. 12 (Wednesday) for the third Asia Leadership Forum at the University of Notre Dame. Sponsored by the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, the free event starts at 6 p.m. in the Patricia George Decio Theatre at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Following the lecture, Sara Sievers, associate dean for policy and practice at the Keough School of Global Affairs, will speak with Ban about his career and current work. John Hewko, general secretary of Rotary International, will moderate the event. Update: Tickets for this event are sold out, but all unclaimed tickets will be released 15 minutes prior to the event. READ MORE »

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Anthropologist Julia Kowalski, scholar of gender dynamics in South Asia, appointed assistant professor of global affairs

August 21, 2018 — Julia Kowalski, a cultural anthropologist who studies gender, kinship, and women’s rights in South Asia, will expand the Keough School’s growing global research profile, especially strengthening the school’s focus on gender equality and enhancing scholarship in South Asia. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and her research has been funded by Fulbright-Hays, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the American Institute for Indian Studies. In the fall 2018 semester, Kowalski will teach Gender, Sexuality and Development in the Master of Global Affairs program. She will also teach Love and Romance in Modern Asia as a University Seminar for first-year Notre Dame students. READ MORE »

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Keough School introduces new undergraduate global affairs major

August 16, 2018 — A supplementary major in global affairs, designed for students interested in exploring contemporary global issues, will be offered to this year’s incoming class of 2022. The rigorous program provides students with foundational knowledge of the major political, economic and social institutions of the 21st century. READ MORE »

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Colombian peace accord implementation steadily progressing amid continuing concerns, report finds

August 9, 2018 — After 18 months of work, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have continued to make steady progress in implementing commitments outlined in the country’s 2016 peace accord, says a new report by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. “The data shows that the peace agreement is making steady progress and is on pace with other comprehensive peace agreements in moving toward implementation,” said David Cortright, director of the Kroc Institute’s Peace Accords Matrix (PAM). The report highlights significant progress in areas related to the ceasefire, cantonment (temporary camps for processing ex-combatants), laying down of arms and the transformation of the FARC into a political party with representation in Congress. READ MORE »

Keough School hosts Washington briefing on status of democracy around the globe

July 3, 2018 — Levels of democracy are close to an all-time high worldwide, though freedom of expression, media, and civil society are under attack in many parts of the world, said panelists at a recent briefing at the Keough School’s new Washington, D.C. office. The event, attended by 50 people representing organizations such as the U.S. State Department, USAID, and the Brookings Institution, focused on findings in the 2018 report “Democracy for All?” issued by Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem). READ MORE »

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Scholar-practitioner Laurie Nathan appointed professor of the practice of mediation

June 27, 2018 — Laurie Nathan has been appointed professor of the practice of mediation at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs. Nathan will establish and direct the Kroc Institute’s new mediation program, which will serve as an international center for mediation research, training, policy development, and practice. He is a senior mediation adviser to the United Nations and serves on the U.N. Academic Advisory Council on Mediation. READ MORE »

EVENT: Democracy for All? A global status update

Join us Thursday, June 28, 2018 at our Washington office for a briefing on “Democracy for All?”, the 2018 report published by Varieties of Democracy, producer of the world’s largest and most comprehensive dataset on democracy. Global levels of democracy are close to an all-time high, yet autocratization is manifesting itself in several key countries in disquieting ways. A panel of experts will be moderated by Carlos Lozada, Washington Post nonfiction book critic and 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist. READ MORE »

Keough School and Embassy of Ireland host forum on peacebuilding

June 11, 2018 — The University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs and the Embassy of Ireland will host the forum “Strategies for Lasting Peace Accords” at 9 a.m. Tuesday (June 12) at the Keough School’s new Washington, D.C., office, 1616 P St. NW, Suite 120. Marking the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement among the Irish and British governments and political parties of Northern Ireland, the event will discuss lessons from that peace process as well as the Colombian peace accord. Ireland’s former Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore, who currently serves as the European Union’s special envoy to the peace process in Colombia, will deliver the keynote address. READ MORE »

Thomas Tweed named founding director of Rafat and Zoreen Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion

June 7, 2018 — Tweed came to Notre Dame in 2013 as the Harold and Martha Welch Professor of American Studies and professor of history, roles he will retain. He is the former president of the American Academy of Religion, the largest society for scholars of religion in the world, and has also served on the international advisory board for Notre Dame’s Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. A widely published scholar with a longstanding interest in ecumenical and interreligious engagement, Tweed earned doctorate and master’s degrees in religious studies from Stanford University and a master’s degree in theological studies from Harvard University. READ MORE »

Keough School hosts two Nobel Peace Prize laureates

May 10, 2018 — The Keough School of Global Affairs concluded its inaugural academic year by hosting two Nobel Peace Prize laureates: Muhammad Yunus, an economist and social entrepreneur who won the prize in 2006, and Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the 2017 prize-winning organization the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). Yunus and Fihn delivered public lectures and met with Notre Dame undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students. READ MORE »

Integration Lab launches international student research projects

May 8, 2018 — The Keough School’s Integration Lab is sending teams of master of global affairs students to 13 countries this summer to research and help address a range of pressing global challenges. By partnering with high-impact global organizations, the Integration Lab (i-Lab) enables student teams to co-design international research projects with seasoned professionals. Each project aims to create innovative solutions to complex issues related to migration, climate change, educational inequality, or access to health care. The students’ international travel comes at the conclusion of their first year of intensive coursework in the Master of Global Affairs program. READ MORE »

William Donahue, scholar of German literature and film, to lead Nanovic Institute for European Studies

May 3, 2018 — Donahue, the Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., Professor of the Humanities, has been appointed director of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, effective July 1. A scholar of contemporary German literature and film, he holds a Ph.D. in German Literature from Harvard. Donahue is the author of Holocaust as Fiction: Bernhard Schlink’s ‘Nazi’ Novels and Their Films and The End of Modernism: Elias Canetti’s Auto-da-Fé. He has chaired Notre Dame’s Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures since 2015 and is a concurrent professor of Film, Television, and Theatre. The Nanovic Institute, created in 1992, is an integral part of the Keough School. READ MORE »

Keough School opens Washington, DC office

May 3, 2018 — The Keough School recently welcomed more than 100 guests to a private reception celebrating the opening of a new Washington, DC office. Located at 1400 16th Street NW, near DuPont Circle and blocks from several embassies, think thanks, and the World Bank, the Keough School now provides a base of operations for the Notre Dame community to engage in global policy. READ MORE »

New book advances understanding of conflict in contemporary U.S. society

April 27, 2018 — Jason Springs’ recently published book Healthy Conflict in Contemporary American Society offers new insight into the productive and positive roles that conflict can play in the midst of religious intolerance and moral disagreements in contemporary American society. READ MORE »

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus meets with master of global affairs students

April 20, 2018 — Yunus, the economist who created microcredit and pioneered the concept of social business, recently met with master’s students during their weekly policy seminar, fielding questions on everything from entrepreneurship to climate change to career advice. Yunus was the keynote speaker for the spring 2018 Notre Dame Forum. READ MORE »

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Historian Gérard Prunier examines Africa’s changing demographics

April 17, 2018 — “Africa needs friends. Not supporters or deniers, but friends with open eyes, open hearts, and tough minds,” said Prunier during a recent lecture at the Keough School. Prunier’s lecture focused on Africa’s unprecedented growth, which he says will lead to even scarcer resources on a continent that is already struggling with poverty. This scarcity, he predicts, will ultimately lead to a conflict over resources that will have worldwide repercussions. READ MORE »

Madrasa Discourses project gains new audience

April 12, 2018 — Members of the local Muslim community recently gathered at the Keough School to learn about the Madrasa Discourses project, which focuses on recent graduates of Islamic schools in India and Pakistan. Funded by the Templeton Foundation, the project helps these newly minted scholars understand how contemporary theological and scientific knowledge can align with traditional Islamic thought. READ MORE »

Beatrice Fihn, director of 2017 Nobel Prize winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, to deliver Hesburgh Lecture

Fihn will deliver the 24th annual Hesburgh Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy at 4 p.m. on April 17 (Tuesday) in the McCartan Courtroom, Eck Hall of Law. The Hesburgh Lecture is a signature event of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs. Fihn’s lecture will focus on the threat of nuclear war, exacerbated by heightened tensions and rhetoric between the United States and North Korea.
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Sustainable Development in an Unequal Age: A panel discussion

Join us Thursday April 5, 2018, 12:30 p.m. Featuring Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University; Natalie Jaresko, Executive Director, Federal Fiscal Control Board of Puerto Rico; Shanta Devarajan, Acting World Bank Group Chief Economist and Senior Director for Development Economics; and Scott Appleby, Marilyn Keough Dean, Keough School of Global Affairs. READ MORE »

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to speak as part of Notre Dame Forum

Muhammad Yunus, a social entrepreneur, banker and economist from Bangladesh who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance, will deliver a keynote address at 7 p.m. April 12 (Thursday) at Notre Dame as part of this year’s Notre Dame Forum. Yunus will also receive the Ford Family Notre Dame Award for International Development and Solidarity from the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Students are invited to meet Yunus during a discussion of his new book A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Carbon Emissions. READ MORE »

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African Demography: Long-Term Trends and the Refugee Crisis

Join us Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 4:30 p.m. Featuring Gérard Prunier, visiting Scholar, Keough School of Global Affairs; independent consultant on Eastern and Central African affairs; former director, French Center for Ethiopian Studies, Addis-Ababa READ MORE »

Migrant Underworlds: Travels in Hyporeality

Join us Tuesday, February 20, 4:00-5:30p.m. Hans Lucht, a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, will examine the less understood ramifications of migrant fatalities in the Sahara and Mediterranean Sea. Based on fieldwork in Ghana, Niger, and Libya, Lucht argues that migrant fatalities are symptoms of an emerging form of reality – or hyporeality – in which lives are increasingly short and underwhelming and characterized by incarceration and iconoclasm. Lucht will examine the growing restrictions on mobility for young West Africans in a time of change and upheaval. Focusing on high-risk migration from a Ghanaian fishing village via Libya to Southern Europe, he will explore the less understood local ramifications of these deadly journeys. READ MORE »

EVENT: National Security and Conflict Prevention

Join us Monday, February 12, 4:30 p.m., for a panel discussion that will examine the challenges of civil-military collaboration and explore whether security forces and peacebuilding and development agencies can work together to address problems of instability and prevent conflicts from turning violent. Panelists include Lt. General Charles Cleveland (U.S. Army ret.), former commander, U.S. Army Special Operations (at left), and Keough School and Notre Dame faculty. READ MORE »

Torture and Forgiveness at Guantánamo Bay

February 9, 2017 — The Keough School’s Center for Civil and Human Rights hosted a conversation with Mohamedou Ould Slahi, author of Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition. Slahi joined 300 students, faculty, and community members via teleconference from his native Mauritania. Speaking with Slahi from the stage were Larry Siems, a Notre Dame graduate and editor of Guantánamo Diary, and Juan Méndez, Former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and former director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights.
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Moosa and Mirza to lead Madrasa Discourses winter intensive in Qatar

December 19, 2017 — University of Notre Dame faculty Ebrahim Moosa (at left), professor of Islamic studies, and Mahan Mirza, professor of the practice, will lead 45 madrasa students in Doha, Qatar, Dec. 25 (Monday) on a seven-day exploration of the tensions and harmonies between traditional Islamic thought and the scientific and technological advances of modernity. Madrasas are the most common Muslim educational institutions, and the Madrasa Discourses project, part of the Contending Modernities initiative, is funded by a three-year grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
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James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, visits Keough School

November 30, 2017 — James Clapper, former U.S. Director of National Intelligence, recently visited the Keough School of Global Affairs, where he engaged with students and faculty during a two-day visit. As Director of National Intelligence, Clapper led the United States Intelligence Community and served as the principal intelligence adviser to President Barack Obama. READ MORE »

Colombian peace agreement progressing steadily, says Kroc Institute Report

November 16, 2017 — Nearly one year after the Colombian government and the rebel group FARC signed a historic peace accord, the fulfillment of nearly half its commitments is underway, according to a report issued by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. The Kroc Institute, an integral part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, provides real-time verification and monitoring of implementation of the accord through its Peace Accords Matrix project. READ MORE »

Caroline Hughes appointed Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Chair in Peace Studies

November 13, 2017 — Hughes’ research focuses on peacebuilding and the politics of aid and development in post-conflict Asia, especially southeast Asia. In her new position at Notre Dame, she will be a core faculty member of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, an integral part of the Keough School. READ MORE »

Historian Patrick Griffin appointed director of Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies

October 26, 2017 — Patrick Griffin, the Madden-Hennebry Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, effective Jan. 1, 2018. Griffin, who joined the Notre Dame faculty in 2008, explores the intersection of colonial American and early modern Irish and British history, focusing on Atlantic-wide themes and dynamics. READ MORE »

MGA students meet with senior U.S. intelligence analysts

October 30, 2017 — Keough School master’s students recently met with two of the most senior intelligence analysts in the U.S. government: Amy McAuliffe and Suzanne Fry. McAuliffe and Fry, both Notre Dame graduates, spoke about the role of intelligence analysis in forming policy.

EVENT: Corporate Responsibilities in the Spirit of Laudato Si’

Join us at 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 25 (Wed.): Klaus Leisinger, president of the Global Values Alliance, will discuss the implications of Laudato Si’ for corporate responsibilities. In this encyclical, Pope Francis calls upon all men and women of goodwill to honor universal ethical principles such as human dignity, social justice, the common good, and shared well-being, and he asks for profound changes in lifestyle, modes of production and consumption. READ MORE »

Former White House chief of staff teaches master of global affairs students

October 13, 2017 — In early October, master’s students in the Keough School of Global Affairs have been learning the nuances of public policy from Denis McDonough, former chief of staff for President Barack Obama. McDonough is an executive fellow of the Keough School’s Global Policy Initiative, which brings foreign policy experts, government officials, and distinguished diplomats to Notre Dame to teach and mentor students. READ MORE »

Peter Wallensteen commentary on 2017 Nobel Peace Prize

October 6, 2017 — The Nobel Committee’s selection of ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, points to the urgency of nuclear weapons disarmament, Wallensteen says. ICAN was a strong promoter of the treaty banning nuclear weapons that was negotiated in the UN General Assembly in July 2017. READ MORE »

EVENT: Keough School of Global Affairs Opening

Join us at 4 p.m. on Oct. 5 (Thurs.) for a panel discussion celebrating the opening of the Donald R. Keough School of Global Affairs. Scott Appleby, Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School, will moderate the international panel of speakers. READ MORE »

EVENT: Science Diplomacy: Past, Present, and Future

Join us at 4 p.m. on Oct. 3 (Tues.): Cathy Campbell, former president and CEO, U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (CRDF), will address science diplomacy, the process of integrating science into foreign policy decision-making and utilizing science cooperation to build relations with other countries. READ MORE »

Horst Koehler, former president of Germany, leads global policy seminar at Keough School

September 7, 2017 — Koehler, who served as Germany’s president from 2004 to 2010, met with Notre Dame master of global affairs students and undergraduates for a question-and-answer session that addressed everything from career development to conflict management to international debt relief. READ MORE »

U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle meets with master of global affairs students

September 5, 2017 — U.S. Congressional Representative Brendan Boyle recently met with master of global affairs students and later engaged with them on various topics in their global policy seminar. Boyle was the first of nearly 20 invited guests — policymakers and leaders in various fields — who will meet with students in the weekly course. READ MORE »

Keough School of Global Affairs opens at Notre Dame

August 22, 2017 — The Donald R. Keough School of Global Affairs, Notre Dame’s first new school in nearly a century, has opened its doors to Notre Dame and the world. Housed in the newly completed Jenkins Hall, the Keough School now enrolls 38 students in its new master of global affairs program. The students come from 21 countries and bring a wealth of professional experience in international development, education, peacebuilding, environmental conservation, human rights, humanitarian assistance, journalism and other fields. READ MORE »

Denis McDonough, former White House chief of staff, joins Keough School of Global Affairs

August 21, 2017 — Denis McDonough, former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, has been named an executive fellow of the Global Policy Initiative in the new Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. McDonough will serve as an instructor for the Keough School’s global policy seminar, teaching the inaugural cohort of 38 graduate students in the new Master of Global Affairs program. READ MORE »

Former Homeland Security official Francis Taylor joins Keough School of Global Affairs

August 17, 2017 — Francis X. Taylor has been named an executive fellow of the Keough School’s Global Policy Initiative. From 2014 to 2016, Taylor served as under secretary for intelligence and analysis in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where he also served as DHS counterterrorism coordinator. Taylor is a Notre Dame graduate with bachelor’s (’70) and master’s (’74) degrees in government and international studies. He is a distinguished graduate of the Notre Dame Air Force ROTC program. READ MORE »

Clemens Sedmak appointed professor of social ethics in Keough School of Global Affairs

June 12, 2017 — Sedmak also holds an appointment at Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns. He previously was the FD Maurice Professor for Moral Theology and Social Theology at King’s College London, and holds doctoral degrees in philosophy, theology and social theory. Sedmak is the author of numerous publications in German and English, most recently A Church of the Poor: Pope Francis and the Transformation of Orthodoxy, where he explores Pope Francis’ global vision of the Catholic Church. READ MORE »

Susan Ostermann, expert in comparative politics in South Asia, appointed assistant professor of global affairs

June 7, 2017 — Ostermann holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She has published work on the Indian bureaucracy, the 2014 Indian general election, state capacity in South Asia, inter-caste marriage and the role of skin color in Indian politics. Her current research projects range from exploring the historical roots of conservatism in Indian political thought to explaining variation in sex-ratios throughout the subcontinent. READ MORE »

Keough School to welcome 38 students from 21 countries to new Master of Global Affairs

May 30, 2017 — The Keough School of Global Affairs will welcome 38 Master of Global Affairs students to Notre Dame in August. The inaugural class includes students from Afghanistan, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Iran, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, the Philippines, Tajikistan, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Vietnam, Ukraine, the United States, Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe. READ MORE »

Asher Kaufman appointed director of Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

May 5, 2017 — Asher Kaufman, professor of history and peace studies, has been appointed the John M. Regan, Jr. Director of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, effective July 1, 2017. Kaufman, who joined the Notre Dame faculty in 2005, is an expert on border disputes and regional conflicts, specializing in the history and legacy of nationalism and colonialism in the Middle East. READ MORE »

Maura Policelli named executive director of Keough School Global Policy Initiative

May 2, 2017 — Maura Policelli has joined the Keough School of Global Affairs as Executive Director of the new Global Policy Initiative in Washington, D.C. She will provide strategic direction for the initiative, which aims to strengthen engagement with and influence in the nation’s capital and to provide new opportunities for students, faculty, and alumni to further the university’s global mission and impact. READ MORE »

New Peace Corps Coverdell Fellows program launched with Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs

May 1, 2017 — The University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs is partnering with the Peace Corps to establish a new Paul D. Coverdell Fellows program for returned volunteers pursuing the Keough School’s new Master of Global Affairs degree. READ MORE »

Saint Xavier University to honor Scott Appleby

April 26, 2017 — Scott Appleby, professor of history and the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs, will receive an honorary degree May 6 from Saint Xavier University in Chicago. Appleby also will deliver the commencement address to graduates of Saint Xavier’s College of Arts and Sciences. READ MORE »

Atalia Omer awarded Andrew Carnegie Fellowship

April 26, 2017 — Atalia Omer, associate professor of religion, conflict and peace studies, has been awarded one of 35 Andrew Carnegie Fellowships, a major new annual fellowship program that provides support for scholars in the social sciences and the humanities. Omer, a core faculty member of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs, is one of two Notre Dame faculty members to receive a 2017 Carnegie Fellowship. READ MORE »

Development economist Lakshmi Iyer holds appointment in Keough School of Global Affairs

April 13, 2017 — Lakshmi Iyer, who joined the Notre Dame faculty in the Department of Economics in 2016, holds a joint appointment in the Keough School of Global Affairs. She will teach Economics of Growth and Development, a core course for all students in the new Master of Global Affairs (MGA). She also will serve as director of the MGA’s Sustainable Development concentration. READ MORE »

Tracy Kijewski-Correa and Steve Reifenberg to lead Integration Lab (i-Lab)

March 31, 2017 — Tracy Kijewski-Correa and Steve Reifenberg have been appointed co-directors of the Integration Lab (i-Lab), an innovative feature of the new Keough School of Global Affairs that engages students, faculty across disciplines, and partners around the world in addressing complex global challenges. READ MORE »

Ansari family’s $15 million gift to create institute to study global religions

March 17, 2017 — Rafat and Zoreen Ansari and their family have made a $15 million gift to Notre Dame for the creation of an institute dedicated to the study of religion around the world. The Rafat and Zoreen Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion will be part of the Keough School of Global Affairs. READ MORE »

What Keeps America Safe? A conversation with Francis X. Taylor

February 16, 2017 — Join us to hear from Francis X. Taylor (’70, M.A ’74), Former Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, United States Department of Homeland Security. READ MORE »

McKenna makes leadership gift to establish Center for Human Development and Global Business

December 15, 2016 — Andrew J. McKenna Sr., ND alumnus and emeritus chairman of the Board of Trustees, has made a leadership gift to establish the Andrew J. and Joan P. McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business in the Keough School. READ MORE »

Nobel Peace Prize speech highlights contribution of ND’s Kroc Institute to process of ending war in Colombia

December 12, 2016 — Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos mentioned the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, which has served as an academic partner in the Colombian peace process and is now engaged with the commission charged with implementing the peace agreement. READ MORE »

Ma Ying-jeou, former president of Taiwan, speaks at ND’s Asia Leadership Forum

November 22, 2016 — Ma visited Notre Dame at the invitation of university president Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. The occasion was Notre Dame’s Asia Leadership Forum, sponsored by the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. READ MORE »

Kroc Institute charged with technical verification and monitoring of Colombian peace accord

August 31, 2016 — The historic Colombia peace agreement gives Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies primary responsibility for technical verification and monitoring of implementation of the accord through the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM). READ MORE »

Ray Offenheiser to join faculty as Distinguished Professor of the Practice

November 21, 2016 — Ray Offenheiser, a widely known nonprofit leader and innovator, will join the faculty as Distinguished Professor of the Practice and as the inaugural director of the Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development. READ MORE »

1916 The Irish Rebellion awarded “Best Documentary Series”

October 10, 2016 — An initiative of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, the film was honored at the 2016 Irish Film and Television Academy’s gala awards ceremony in Dublin. Narrated by Liam Neeson, the film uncovers the untold story of the central role Irish Americans played in the rebellion. READ MORE »

Global affairs scholar Tamara Kay to join Keough School of Global Affairs

July 20, 2016 — Tamara Kay, a scholar with extensive experience in Latin America and Africa, will join the Keough School as associate professor of global affairs, according to Scott Appleby, Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School. READ MORE »

Master of Global Affairs now available from ND’s new Keough School of Global Affairs

July 25, 2016 — The Keough School of Global Affairs announces the opening of applications for the two-year professional Master of Global Affairs, designed designed to prepare new generations of leaders and agents of change in governments, nongovernmental and civil society organizations, and the private sector. READ MORE »

Jennifer Mason McAward appointed director of Center for Civil and Human Rights

June 22, 2016 — Jennifer Mason McAward, associate professor of law at the University of Notre Dame Law School, has been appointed director of the University’s Center for Civil and Human Rights by R. Scott Appleby, Marilyn Keough Dean of the Donald R. Keough School of Global Affairs. READ MORE »

Ebrahim Moosa launches project to advance scientific and theological literacy among madrasa graduates

April 25, 2016 — With a $1.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, Ebrahim Moosa, professor of Islamic studies at the University of Notre Dame, has launched a three-year project to enrich scientific and theological literacy among recent graduates of Islamic seminaries in India. READ MORE »

Conference responds to global efforts to care for the planet and the poor

April 4, 2016 — For the Planet and the Poor, the first major conference organized by the University of Notre Dame’s new Keough School of Global Affairs, will open with a keynote panel, “A Surprising Convergence, a Moment of Opportunity,” at 6 p.m. on April 4, 2016. READ MORE »

Sara Sievers appointed associate dean for policy and practice

February 24, 2016 — Sievers brings experience in bridging the worlds of policy, practice and the academy. She previously served as the founding executive director of Columbia University’s Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development and Harvard University’s Center for International Development. READ MORE »

Michel Hochx, scholar of literary Chinese language and Internet culture, appointed director of Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies

February 15, 2016 — Michel Hockx has been appointed director of the University of Notre Dame’s Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs. Hockx is professor of Chinese and director of the China Institute at SOAS, University of London. READ MORE »

Gift from Susan Scribner Mirza to establish ND’s first endowed professorship in Islamic studies

January 21, 2016 — The University of Notre Dame announced its first endowed professorship in Islamic studies, established with a $3 million gift from alumna Susan Scribner Mirza. The Mirza Family Professorship of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies also is the first endowed chair in the new Keough School of Global Affairs. READ MORE »

ND to establish Keough School of Global Affairs; Scott Appleby appointed founding dean

October 3, 2014 — The University of Notre Dame announced the creation of the first new college or school at the University in nearly a century — the Donald R. Keough School of Global Affairs. R. Scott Appleby will serve as the Marilyn Keough Dean of the school. READ MORE »

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