The Kroc Cast
The Kroc Cast is a podcast featuring peace studies conversations convened among faculty, staff, alumni, visiting fellows, and friends of the Kroc Institute, a global peace studies hub.
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A Conversation with the Honorable Juan Manuel Santos
In this episode, Josefina Echavarría, director of the Peace Accords Matrix and associate professor of the practice, hosts a conversation with the Honorable Juan Manuel Santos,...
The Kroc Institute’s Sixth Report on Colombian Peace Accord Implementation
Five years after the signing of the 2016 Final Agreement between the Colombian government and the former FARC-EP, implementation has not stopped, despite facing numerous...
Peace Policy Spotlight: Women and Peacebuilding
In this episode, Atalia Omer, Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies, and one of the guest editors of the most recent issue of Peace Policy focused on the particular...
A Conversation with Co-Editors of Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice
In this episode, co-editors Associate Professor Ernesto Verdeja, Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Assistant Professor at George Mason University, and Austin Choi Fitzpatrick, University...
A Conversation with Min. Wais Barmak on the Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan
In today’s episode, Lisa Schirch, the Richard G. Starmann, Sr. Professor of the Practice in Peace Studies, and Ray Offenheiser, the Director of the Pulte Institute for Global...
The Current Crisis Facing Afghan Women
Malalai Habibi, 2019 Peace Studies alum and Program Officer at the International Civil Society Action Network, hosts a conversation on the realities on the ground for Afghan women...
Nuclear Politics and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Erin Corcoran, executive director at the Kroc Institute and associate teaching professor at the Keough School of Global Affairs, talks with three Kroc Institute-connected analysts...
Three Kroc Institute Alums on Environmental Peacebuilding
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...
Tona Boyd on the Justice in Policing Act
Featuring Erin Corcoran, Kroc Institute Executive Director, and Tona Boyd, a 2003 Notre Dame graduate and peace studies alum who is now working as chief counsel to Senator Cory...
The Coronavirus Crisis through Gender, Environmental, Anthropological and Indigenous Lenses
Kroc Institute Director, Asher Kaufman, talks with Kroc Institute faculty members, researchers, and graduate students about aspects of the current Coronavirus crisis, including...
Teaching Peace in Active and Post-Conflict Zones
George Lopez talks with three other scholar-practitioners about how to teach peace studies in areas where there is active conflict or where conflict has just ended. This...
Understanding the Madrasa Discourses Project
Faculty members associated with the Madrasa Discourses project at the Kroc Institute discuss the program’s unique efforts to engage madrasa scholars in conversations about...