Join the Accomplice Program for a 2-day series on community bridge-building and how this speaks to the University of Notre Dame’s strategic framework. Schedule of Events Tuesday, April 2Hesburgh Auditorium 12:00 pm“History between Notre Dame and harmed communities”Presented by: Zada Ballew, Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Dé Bryant, professor of psychology and director of Social Action Project, Indiana University South Bend 1:00 pm“A case for reparations from Notre Dame”Presented by: Clark Power, professor, Program of Liberal Studies and executive director of Play Like a Champion, University of Notre Dame, and Gwendolyn Purifoye, assistant professor of racial justice and conflict transformation, Kroc Institute for International Peace StudiesModerated by: Laurie Nathan, professor of the practice of mediation and mediation program director, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Lunch will be available beginning at 11 am. Wednesday, April 3, 5:00 pmO’Rourke’s Public House1044 E. Angela Blvd., #103, South Bend, IN 46617 Meet at O'Rourke's for a walking tour of the Harter Heights neighborhood, led by Derrick Perry, high fidelity wraparound supervisor at Oaklawn Psychiatric Center, South Bend Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

The Kroc Institute has selected Traci C. West as the featured speaker for the 26th Annual Dialogues on Nonviolence, Religion, and Peace, presenting “Racism, Gender Violence, and Hypocrisies of Christian Love and Peace." A scholar-activist serving as James W. Pearsall Professor of Christian Social Ethics and African American Studies at Drew University Theological School (NJ), Dr. West’s teaching, research, and activism focus on gender, racial, and sexuality justice, with a focus on gender violence. Christianity espouses a core commitment to love and peace, yet hypocrisies persist related to racism and gender violence. Christian public claims can seemingly turn a blind eye to this incongruence, which then preserves it. Dr. West will address the costs associated by not acknowledging hypocrisies, the courage needed to call them out because of the risk involved, and use of historical narratives and lived experiences of antiracist gender justice as tools to help us do so. Lunch and conversation will follow this lecture in C103, Hesburgh Center for International Studies. The Dialogues on Nonviolence, Religion, and Peace, which began in 1999, were established through a gift to the Kroc Institute from Mrs. Anne Marie Yoder and her family. Each year, the Kroc Institute invites a leading thinker, writer, scholar, and/or peace advocate to deliver a lecture related to nonviolence, religion, and peace. Following the lecture, audience members join in informal dialogue and discussion with the speaker and with each other.   Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

As part of the Keough-Naughton Institute's spring 2024 speaker series, Sophie Cooper, lecturer in Liberal Arts at Queen's University, Belfast, will give a lecture titled “‘I Believe Colonists will Always Call Ireland by this Name of “Home”’: Adapting to a New Home Abroad within the Irish Diaspora.” Focusing on Irish migrants during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, this lecture draws together research from Cooper's book and recent work on belonging and the built environment. It will explore some of the ways that a sense of belonging, or a sense of “home,” was created and facilitated abroad. For some in diasporic communities, this was related to the people that they surrounded themselves with, for others, it was the physical changes that they made to the world around them. This research, therefore, examines how lay and religious communities worked together, and in parallel, to make a new “home from home” across different generations. Speaker Biography Sophie Cooper is subject lead and a lecturer in Liberal Arts at Queen’s University Belfast. Her 2022 book, Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, c.1830-1922, was published by Edinburgh University Press and was awarded the 2023 American Conference for Irish Studies' Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish America. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.

In the summer of 1993 following the death of her parents, six-year-old Frida moves from Barcelona to the Catalan province to live with her aunt and uncle, who are now her new legal guardians. The country life is a challenge for Frida; time passes differently in her new home and the nature that surrounds her is mysterious. She now has a little sister for whom she has to take care of and has to deal with new feelings, such as jealousy. Often, Frida is naively convinced that running away would be the best solution to her problems. Yet, the family does what it can to achieve a fragile new balance and bring normality to their life. Occasional family outings to a local fiesta or a swimming pool, cooking, or listening to jazz in the garden bring them moments of happiness. Slowly, Frida realizes that she is there to stay and has to adapt to the new environment. Before the season is over, she has to cope with her emotions and her parents have to learn to love her as their own daughter.Directed by Carla SimónWith Valérie Delpierre, Stefan Schmitz, María ZamoraNot Rated, 98 minutes, DCPIn Catalan with English subtitles.Director Carla Simón scheduled to appear via Zoom! GET TICKETSThis is a free but ticketed event. Tickets will only be available for pick-up one hour prior to the performance. To guarantee your reservation please pick-up your Will Call tickets at least 15 minutes prior to the performance. In the event of a sell out, unclaimed Will Call tickets will be used to seat patrons waiting on standby.Part of the Nanovic Film Series. 

Register here The EnPAx Transitional Justice Interest Group is hosting a webinar open to the public on transitional justice and the environment in the context of Colombia’s transitional justice process. This webinar is co-sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The signing of the 2016 Colombian Peace Agreement formally ended the more than 50-year conflict between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Government of the Republic of Colombia. However, in the years since the signing of the agreement, environmental issues have arisen, highlighting new challenges and innovations for the practice and study of the field of environmental peacebuilding, transitional justice, and conservation. Understanding how the environment factors into transitioning to peace serves as a formal and informal vehicle; transitional justice is critical to peacebuilding. The case and contexts of Colombia offer a novel and still unfolding opportunity to explore questions and draw out lessons for facilitating sustainable peace. This webinar is comprised of two separate panels: Panel 1 (9:30 - 10:40 a.m.) Speakers include Angela María Amaya-Arias (director of research in the department of environmental law, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Colombia), Gloria Amparo Rodriguez (professor of law and director of the Public Law Research Group, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia and adjunct judge of the constitutional court of Colombia), and Josefina Echavarría Alvarez (professor of the practice, Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, and director of the Peace Accords Matrix, a research initiative of the Keough School’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies) and Tatiana Menjura Roldán (researcher, Peace Accords Matrix’s Barometer Initiative in Colombia). Panel 2 (10:50 a.m. - noon ) Speakers include Maria Paula Prada Ramírez (former permanent advisor to the president of the Truth, Reconciliation and Non-Repetition Commission in Colombia and visiting research fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies), Juan Fernando Lucio (director of PASO Colombia, One Earth Future), and Natalia Jiménez Galindo (environmental peacebuilding consultant). Register here Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.

In 1994, Rwanda suffered a genocide and civil war that devasted the country, leaving lasting harms that continue to reverberate today. Since then, Rwandans have worked to rebuild their communities and lives in the aftermath of the violence. Join us for a conversation with ​​Angélique Gakoko Pitteloud, a Rwandan genocide survivor, filmmaker and human rights advocate, and Jacques Pitteloud, Swiss Ambassador to the United States, who has extensive experience in diplomacy to advance human rights. Together, they will address the legacies of violence and the ongoing healing and reconstruction efforts in Rwanda over the past 30 years. Emmanuel Katongole, professor of theology and peace studies, and Ernesto Verdeja, associate professor of peace studies and global politics, will participate as respondents. This event is cosponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.  Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.