Author: Lisa Schirch
Keough School of Global Affairs, March 2024
Deliberative technologies offer policymakers, think tanks, tech companies, and civil society new paths to stem the tide of democratic backsliding. This brief recommends using deliberative technologies to: Foster more robust civic engagement Build trust in public institutions by aligning governance with public will Improve...
Topics: Governance, Policy
Author: Barbara Durr
Keough School of Global Affairs, March 2024
Between 2015 and 2017, Oxfam, the international social justice organization, waged a campaign against the US poultry industry to seek better wages, healthy and safe working conditions, and worker voice for poultry processing workers. These workers, predominantly women and almost all people of color,...
Topics: Business & Economics, Civil & Human Rights, Culture & Society
Authors: David Cortright, Anna Romandash
Keough School of Global Affairs, February 2024
In response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, developed democracies have imposed thousands of restrictions on Russian energy exports, international financing, and imports of weapons and military-related technology, with the goal of reducing state revenues and constraining the capacity for continued war. The sanctions have...
Topics: Peacebuilding, Policy
Author: Barbara Durr
Keough School of Global Affairs, April 2023
Between 2013 and 2016, Oxfam waged an ambitious campaign to challenge the world’s top 10 food and beverage companies to change the social, ethical, and environmental sourcing in their global supply chains. The campaign bargained on the large, branded companies’ susceptibility to consumer pressure,...
Topics: Culture & Society
Authors: Diane Desierto, Fidelis Olokunboro
Pulte Institute for Global Development, Keough School of Global Affairs, November 2021
It is a continuing paradox in 2021 that Nigeria is a country of vast natural resources and energy reserves, Africa’s largest oil producer, and a powerful member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), yet poverty and inequality remain extremely rampant. Forty percent...
Topics: Business & Economics, Civil & Human Rights, Governance, Policy
Author: Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion
Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, Keough School of Global Affairs, December 2021
This conference report is based on the third of a series of conferences dedicated to “Changing the Conversation about Religion,” organized by the Contending Modernities research initiative within the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School...
Topics: Religion
Authors: Lakshmi Iyer, Francisco Rodríguez
Keough School of Global Affairs, September 2021
Venezuela entered hyperinflation at the end of 2017, preceded by several years of large budget deficits and declining oil revenues. Despite many policy attempts to bring inflation under control, including currency redenomination, introduction of a new cryptocurrency, allowing de facto dollarization, and easing price...
Topics: Business & Economics, Policy
Authors: Madhav Joshi , Sophia Henn
Peace Accords Matrix, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, August 2021
The ongoing Afghan peace process, which officially started with the signing of the Doha Agreement between the United States and the Taliban in February 2020, involves a complex network of actors. This study leverages social network analysis (SNA) to draw insights from original data...
Topics: Peacebuilding
Author: Peace Accords Matrix Barometer Initiative
Peace Accords Matrix Barometer Initiative, part of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs, May 2021
Este informe muestra el estado de la implementación del Acuerdo Final en el periodo comprendido entre diciembre de 2019 y noviembre de 2020, conforme a la metodología de seguimiento diseñada por el Instituto Kroc. El informe presenta una visión cuantitativa y cualitativa de la...
Topics: Peacebuilding
Author: Peace Accords Matrix Barometer Initiative
Peace Accords Matrix Barometer Initiative, part of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs, May 2021
The Kroc Institute’s fifth comprehensive report, The Colombian Final Agreement in the Era of COVID-19: Institutional and Citizen Ownership is Key to Implementation, discusses the Final Accord’s status of implementation in the period between December 2019 and November 2020, based on the monitoring methodology designed...
Topics: Peacebuilding
Author: Matriz de Acuerdos de Paz Iniciativa Barómetro
Matriz de Acuerdos de Paz Iniciativa Barómetro, parte del Instituto Kroc de Estudios Internacionales de Paz en la Escuela Keough de Asuntos Globales, May 2021
El quinto informe integral del Instituto Kroc, El acuerdo final colombiano en la era del COVID-19: la propiedad institucional y ciudadana es clave para la implementación, muestra el estado de la implementación del Acuerdo Final en el periodo comprendido entre diciembre de 2019 y...
Topics: Peacebuilding
Authors: Steve Reifenberg, Luke Maillie
Keough School of Global Affairs, May 2021
In rural Chiapas, Mexico, poor patients often struggle to accesss surgical care and other medical treatment, even though access is guaranteed by law under the Mexican constitution. This case examines an innovative approach developed by Compañeros en Salud to accompany patients from rural communities...
Topics: Health
Author: Gema Kloppe-Santamaría
Kellogg Institute, May 2021
Despite the formal end of civil war and armed conflict, Mexico continued to experience significant levels of violence during the 1930s and 1940s. This period has traditionally been associated with the process of pacification, institutionalization, and centralization of power that enabled the consolidation of...
Topics: Civil & Human Rights
Author: Adela Cedillo
Kellogg Institute, May 2021
In the late 1960s, the Mexican government launched a series of counternarcotics campaigns characterized by the militarization of drug production zones, particularly in the northwestern region—the so-called Golden Triangle, epicenter of both production and trafficking of marijuana and opium poppy since the 1930s. Operations...
Topics: Peacebuilding, Policy
