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  • Peace Policy Spotlight: Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining

    Episode 52
    Published: 2022-02-15
    Length: 34:13
    Hosts: David Cortright

    David Cortright, Professor Emeritus of the Practice at the Kroc Institute and Editor of the Kroc Institute’s Peace Policy publication sits down to talk with authors from the latest issue. This issue features reflections drawn from the new book, Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining: Integral Peace, Development, and Ecology published by Routledge in January.

    Guests include one of the co-editors of the book and the Assistant Director of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, Caesar Montevecchio; Father Rigobert Minani, S.J., head of research for the Peace, Human Rights, Democracy, and Good Governance Department at the Centre d’Etude Pour l’Action Sociale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and team leader for the Ecclesial Network of the Congo Basin Forest; and Katherine Marshall, Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, and Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue.

    You can read all articles from this issue at peacepolicy.nd.edu.

    Topics: Catholic, Environment, Peacebuilding, Peace Policy

  • Peace Policy Spotlight: Youth Leading Peacebuilding Efforts in Indianapolis

    Episode 57
    Published: 2022-05-09
    Length: 38:36
    Hosts: Siobhán McEvoy-Levy

    This is one of three episodes dedicated to conversations with the authors of recent Peace Policy articles focusing on the importance of including youth in peacebuilding efforts throughout the U.S. and around the world. Cat Bolten, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute, is the guest editor for this issue of Peace Policy.

    This episode features a conversation between Siobhán McEvoy-Levy, Professor of Political Science and Peace and Conflict Studies at Butler University and Director of the Desmond Tutu Peace Lab, and her co-authors, Cambria C. Khayat, a senior undergraduate student at Butler University, and Julio Trujillo, a first year Children’s Law Fellow at Loyola Law School, Chicago, and a 2021 graduate of Butler University.

    Read all articles at peacepolicy.nd.edu. 

    Topics: Activism, Desmond Tutu Peace Lab, Environment, Youth in Peacebuilding

  • Reflections on Environmental Peacebuilding, COP26 and Faith-Informed Work

    Episode 49
    Published: 2022-01-06
    Length: 42:09
    Hosts: Fr. Emmanuel Katongole

    Emmanuel Katongole, professor of theology and peace studies, talks with recent peace studies graduate and climate activist Elsa Barron (B.A. '21) who attended the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) in November 2021. Here they discuss their commitments to environmental peacebuilding, Katongole's work with the Bethany Land Institute in Uganda, the ways faith informs their environmental commitments, and the future of climate change activism.

    Barron also produces the Olive Shoot podcast, where this episode will also air. 

    Topics: Activism, Alumni, Environment, Peacebuilding, Uganda, United Nations, United Nations Climate Change Conference

  • The Coronavirus Crisis through Gender, Environmental, Anthropological and Indigenous Lenses

    Episode 15
    Published: 2020-04-01
    Length: 41:46
    Hosts: Asher Kaufman

    Kroc Institute Director, Asher Kaufman, talks with Kroc Institute faculty members, researchers, and graduate students about aspects of the current Coronavirus crisis, including gender, environmental, anthropological and indigenous considerations.    

    Topics: Coronavirus, Environment, Gender, Graduate, Intersectionality, Native Studies

  • Three Kroc Institute Alums on Environmental Peacebuilding

    Episode 51
    Published: 2022-02-04
    Length: 61:33
    Hosts: Jen Betz

    Jen Betz, Assistant Director of the International Peace Studies Concentration, Master of Global Affairs degree program at the Kroc Institute, talks with three alumni who are working at the intersection of the environment and peace studies. Guests include Raul F. Campusano (M.A. '89) Academic Director for the Master’s in Environmental Law at the Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile; Katie Conlon (MA '14), National Geographic Explorer leading an expedition and research project on plastic reduction and plastic pollution awareness in the Himalayas; and Valerie Hickey (M.A. '00), Practice Manager for Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy at The World Bank.

    Additional resources mentioned during the conversation include:

    Topics: Alumni, Environment, Environmental Peacebuilding