Global Affairs
Politicization and Transitional Justice | Dignity & Development Forum
Featuring Kelebogile Zvobgo; moderated by Andrés Mejía Acosta How frequent are instrumentalization and politicization in transitional justice? Who does it, when, and why? Are...
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Enacting Human Dignity through Regional Courts of Human Rights | Dignity & Development Forum Panel
Featuring András Sajó, Margarette Macaulay, and Imani Daud Aboud; moderated by Diane Desierto Three human rights judges discuss how the system of regional human rights courts...
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Dignity & Development Forum Roundtable: Realizing Peace through the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights
Featuring Imani Daud Aboud, President, African Court of Human & Peoples’ Rights; and Moderators R. Scott Appleby (Keough School) and G. Marcus Cole (Notre Dame Law School) In a...
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Panel: Trauma and Memory | Dignity & Development Forum
This panel will address diverse perspectives on methods, practices, and tools aimed at promoting restorative and transformative justice in the context of mass trauma. Drawing from...
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Human Rights and the Power of Principle in an Age of Drones, Gender Apartheid, and Aggressive War | Dignity & Development Forum Keynote
In what ways do great powers ‘weaponize’ human rights and the human rights regime, and with what impact? What dilemmas does this pose for advocates of impartial, universal...
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Forum 22-23: New and Old Wars, New and Old Challenges to Peace!
On March 1, 2023, Cardinal Robert McElroy, the bishop of San Diego, led a discussion on the moral challenges of war and nuclear arms at the University of Notre Dame.
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Healing a Wounded World: Voices from the Bahá’í Tradition
Humankind has long struggled with afflictions such as war, racism, and gender inequality. Today, despite progress, these scourges persist, and they disproportionately harm...
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Curated Conversation(s): a Latinx Poetry Show
Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the Institute for Latino Studies, and The Writer’s Center invite you to join them for the second season of Curated Conversation(s): a...
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Human Development Conference 2023 — “Solidarity in Development: Empowering Agents of Change”
Human Development Conference is an annual student-run conference hosted at Notre Dame where students from multiple universities share their development-centered research. This...
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Decolonizing Scholarship in Theology with Carlos Mendoza-Álvarez, OP
Carlos Mendoza-Álvarez, OP, professor of theology from Boston College, will present the lecture, “Bodies, Territories and Knowledges in Resistance,” for the Decolonizing...
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Clingen Conversation: “The Catholic Church and the Irish Civil War: Should the Church Apologize?”
More than twenty years ago, the Catholic Church in Argentina apologized for its behavior during the country’s long “Dirty War” from 1976-1983, in which the Church failed to...
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Forum 22-23: A One-Year Commemoration of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies, in collaboration with the Ukrainian Society of Notre Dame and exchange students from the Ukrainian Catholic University, marked “A...
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