Nikhit D'SaKellogg Institute Faculty FellowAssistant Professor and Senior Associate Director for Research, Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child There are numerous challenges facing young children in Haiti, including political upheaval, gang violence, civil unrest, community violence, closures, shortages of necessities, and natural disasters. This fragility has had a detrimental impact on their learning and development. To address these multifaceted risk factors D'Sa's team at the University of Notre Dame focused on leveraging the assets of the primary settings — lakay, lekol, legliz (home, school, and parish) — where young children learn and develop daily. Over four years and spread across six of the 10 departments in Haiti, they worked to activate this lakay-lekol-legliz (L3) system through interventions and approaches that were need-based, developed in partnership with communities, iteratively tested and improved, and gradually scaled. In this talk, D'Sa will share lessons from these years of research with faith-based communities, discussing how his team at the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child worked with community partners to activate the L3 system, the evidence and impact of this activation, and lessons for similar initiatives in other conflict-affected and fragile states.   Click here for more information 

Register here The nuclear freeze movement of the early 1980s demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to influence national defense and security policy at the height of the Cold War. Today, the world is threatened by a new global arms race as the United States, Russia, China, and other nuclear weapons states are rebuilding and enhancing their arsenals, including new missile deployments. In the face of worsening nuclear dangers, grassroots movements are once again advocating for nuclear disarmament and justice. This webinar will discuss the efforts and impact of local government officials, religious leaders, and international networks to amplify concerns about national nuclear policies and their economic, environmental, health, and cultural consequences. It will also examine the prospects for launching a new global nuclear freeze movement. Featuring:Hirokazu Miyazaki, the Kay Davis Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern UniversityDavid Cortright, professor emeritus of the practice, Kroc Institute for International Peace StudiesThis event is cosponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Catholic Peacebuilding Network, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs at Georgetown University, the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California, and the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at The Catholic University of America. Register here   Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.