Expertise

Arts and peacebuilding; qualitative peace research methodologies; peace didactics; cultures of peace; elicitive conflict transformation and facilitation

At the Keough School

Norbert Koppensteiner is associate teaching professor of peace studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He also is the director of the international peace studies concentration for the Master of Global Affairs program.

Courses

• Embodied Knowing in Peace and Conflict Transformation (peace studies undergraduate and master of global affairs course)
• Developing a Peacebuilding Practice (master of global affairs)
• Embodied Knowing in Peace and Conflict Transformation (master of global affairs)
• International Peace Studies Capstone Seminar (master of global affairs)
• Peace Research Methods (PhD course in peace studies)

Biography

Prior to joining the Keough School’s core faculty, Koppensteiner spent two years as a visiting research fellow at the Keough School’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, where he advanced two lines of research: he explored the art of facilitation for peace and transforming conflicts, with a special focus on embodied approaches, and combined this with methodological and epistemological research into comprehensive ways of knowing.

Before coming to Notre Dame, Koppensteiner was the program coordinator for the MA program for peace studies at the University of Innsbruck and senior lecturer at the same university. He has taught extensively as a guest lecturer in peace studies around the globe and as a freelance facilitator for embodied practices of conflict transformation with a special emphasis on dance, theater and breath.

Koppensteiner earned his PhD at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, (Switzerland) in 2009, an MA in peace studies from the University of Innsbruck (Austria), and a MPhil in political science from the University of Innsbruck (Austria). He is the author of two monographies: Transrational Peace Research and Elicitive Facilitation (2020) and The Art of the Transpersonal Self (2009), as well as the co-editor of the Palgrave International Handbook of Peace Studies: A Cultural Perspective (2011, 2014).

His current teaching, research and facilitation focus on embodied and integral practices of conflict transformation and qualitative peace research methodologies.

Recent Work

• 2020: Transrational Peace Research and Elicitive Facilitation. The Self as (Re)Source. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 288 pages.
• 2020: “A Crack in Everything: Facilitation and Vulnerability” in: Brantmeier, Edward J. and Maria K. McKenna (eds.): Pedagogy of Vulnerability, p103-117, Charlotte: Information Age Publishing.