Three decades after first stepping onto Notre Dame’s campus, Fatima Shabodien '94 MA finds herself in a familiar place of transition. As a young South African student in the master’s program for international peace studies (now the master of global affairs at the Keough School of Global Affairs), she navigated the challenges of adjusting to a new environment—learning to use unfamiliar technologies like computers and deciphering the nuances between South African and American English.

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Five new students representing five different disciplines have arrived at the Kroc Institute this fall as part of its interdisciplinary doctoral program in peace studies. Incoming students were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants from around the world. These students join the Institute’s 27 other doctoral students, for a total of 32 students in the 2024–2025 academic year.

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The Kroc Institute’s renowned joint Ph.D. programs, which integrates the study of peace with one of six traditional disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, prides itself on creating graduates who become scholar-practitioners and academics. To help foster students interested in developing policy-related or non-faculty careers, three current Ph.D. students, along with the director and assistant director of doctoral studies, Caroline Hughes and Kathryn Sawyer Vidrine, made the trip to Washington, DC April 24–26, where they met with Kroc Institute and other Notre Dame alumni working in those fields.

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(Left to right) Fatima Faisal Khan,…

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Five new students representing four disciplines have arrived to the Kroc Institute as part of its interdisciplinary doctoral program in peace studies in fall 2023. Incoming students were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants from around the world. These students join the Institute’s 26 other doctoral students, for a total of 31 students in the 2023–24 academic year.

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Myla Leguro, M.A. ‘10, has…

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Applications are now open for the annual 5-day PhD course on international mediation, hosted by the Research School on Peace and Conflict in Norway in partnership with the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and the Kroc…

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