News: Peacebuilding
UN resolutions may seem like cheap talk. But they might actually work.
September 22, 2020In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Matthew Hauenstein, postdoctoral research associate, Peace Accords Matrix, and Madhav Joshi, associate research professor, Peace Accords Matrix, evaluated the […]
Nuclear era that began in 1945 poses moral questions for the 21st century
August 7, 2020David Cortright, director of the Keough School’s Global Policy Initiative, was quoted in a recent National Catholic Reporter article on nuclear disarmament. “[T]he public consciousness on […]
“Seeing-as”
July 10, 2020An outcry In a particularly disturbing scene in J.M. Coetzee’s novel, Waiting for the Barbarians, the protagonist defends four prisoners who are about to be […]
Can Catholic peacebuilders survive the pandemic?
July 2, 2020From Congo to Colombia, the Catholic Church plays an often unheralded role in peacebuilding. Will the pandemic create new opportunities for Catholic peacebuilders or will […]
Implementation of Colombian peace agreement slowed in 2019
June 16, 2020Research by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies was cited in an El Tiempo article about the Colombian peace agreement. “. . . between December 2018 […]
The Trump administration thinks it can win an arms race. Time for a history lesson.
June 5, 2020David Cortright, director of the Global Policy Initiative, writes about the arms race and the Cold War in a recent Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists […]