Meet the Faculty: David Cortright ’68

David Cortright ’68 is professor emeritus of the practice at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Previously, Cortright was the director of policy studies at the Keough School’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and director of the institute’s Peace Accords Matrix project, the largest existing collection of implementation data on intrastate peace agreements.

Cortright is the author or co-editor of 23 books, including including “Protest and Policy in the Iraq, Nuclear Freeze and Vietnam Peace Movements” (Cambridge University Press Elements, 2025), “Civil Society, Peace and Power“ (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), and “Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict“ (University of Chicago, 2015). He also is chair of the Board of the Fourth Freedom Forum.

Other recent works by Cortright include the second edition of “Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for a New Political Age“ (Paradigm, 2009), “Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas “(Cambridge University Press, 2008), and “Uniting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat“ (MIT, 2007), co-edited with George A. Lopez. Over the past decade, Cortright and Lopez have written or co-edited a series of major works on multilateral sanctions, including “Smart Sanctions“ (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), “Sanctions and the Search for Security“ (Lynne Rienner, 2002) and “The Sanctions Decade“ (Rienner, 2000). Cortright also is editor of “The Price of Peace: Incentives and International Conflict Prevention“ (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).