Law and Politics
Study Confirms Adopting Truth Commissions and Justice Measures in Post-Authoritarian Regimes Lowers Homicide Rates
Nations that adopt transitional justice measures, such as truth commissions and judicial prosecutions for past human rights violations, experience lower homicide rates and lower...
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Citizenship, Virtue, and the Constitution
Tocqueville Lecture, “Citizenship, Virtue, and the Constitution,” sponsored by the Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and Public Life at the University of Notre...
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Fighting For Fair Housing
It has been 50 years since the Fair Housing Act made discrimination in buying and selling homes illegal. Fifty years since Edward Brooke, the first African-American senator from...
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Principles of Sacred Architecture
Duncan Stroik “Principles of Sacred Architecture” took place on Saturday, September 1, 2018, at the University of Notre Dame. Duncan G. Stroik is a practicing architect,...
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Fighting for Freedom of Thought
In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine declared itself an independent state. But political independence didn’t rid the country of Soviet or communist influence....
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Speek Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
“Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech” by Keith Whittington (Princeton). August 30, 2018, at the University of Notre Dame. Presented by the Constitutional...
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Strategies for Lasting Peace Accords
The University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs and the Embassy of Ireland hosted the forum “Strategies for Lasting Peace Accords” on June 12 at the Keough...
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Fr. Ted Said… Peacebuilding & Security: Michael Desch
Michael Desch is Packey J. Dee Professor of International Affairs and Founding Director of the Notre Dame International Security Center. He has written widely on American foreign...
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Fr. Ted Said… Peacebuilding & Security: Tona Boyd ’03
Tona Boyd ’03, an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, speaks as part of the Alumni Association’s Fr. Ted Said…Speaker Series unveiled at...
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Fr. Ted Said… Peacebuilding & Security: George Lopez
George A. Lopez is a leading expert on economic sanctions, peacebuilding and the United Nations. He is the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies...
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Voices of Conscience: Historical Perspectives on the Vietnam Antiwar Movement
This video shows a keynote session from Voices of Conscience: Antiwar Opposition in the Military, a conference hosted at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for...
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Voices of Conscience Conference: Conscience and Resistance from Vietnam to the Present
This video is the opening panel discussion at the May 22-24, 2018 conference, Voices of Conscience: Antiwar Opposition in the Military. Featured speakers include David Cortright,...
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