University of Notre Dame
Kroc Institutde for International Peace Studies

2018

Crowbar No. 1325

Crowbar No. 1325

Kate Paarlberg-Kvam Colombia’s 2016 Peace Accord is a groundbreaking example of how to include women and a gender focus in negotiations and peacebuilding. This achievement is the result of years of advocacy by Colombian women, with the support of the international...

Preventing Violence in the 2015 Nigerian Election

Preventing Violence in the 2015 Nigerian Election

Laurie Nathan In 2015, Nigeria held elections that were widely expected to lead to large-scale violence. The risk derived in part from the country’s severe regional tensions, which included the religious and political cleavage between the North and the South, as well...

Atrocity Crimes and the UN Prevention Agenda

Atrocity Crimes and the UN Prevention Agenda

Adam Lupel Mass atrocity crimes are presently occurring in seven countries, according to the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, and populations are at imminent risk of falling victim in at least two other countries. We continue to develop new tools to...

Understanding Mass Atrocities

Understanding Mass Atrocities

Ernesto Verdeja This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948 by a world traumatized by the horrors of World War II....