The Kroc Institute welcomes guest researchers 2021-2022 // News // Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies // University of Notre Dame

From left to right: Lisa Schirch, Tahir Aziz, Csar Estrada, Felipe Roa-Clavijo and Rahaf Aldoughli.

The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies is pleased to announce that four scholars began their tenure as Visiting Scholars at the start of the 2021-2022 academic year.

The Kroc Institutes Visiting Research Fellows program brings outstanding researchers with a focus on peace research to the University of Notre Dame for a semester or full academic year. Visiting scholars actively integrate their research into the Institute’s ongoing research initiatives and participate in events and conferences as part of the Institute’s learning community.

We are delighted to welcome this cohort of visiting fellows who have been selected from a very competitive pool of applications, said Asher kaufman, John M. Regan, Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute. They all work on subjects directly related to the Institute’s strategic lines of research and practice, including intersectionality and justice, police reform, mediation and peace agreements.

This year’s scholarship recipients include:

Rahaf Aldoughli is Professor of Middle East Politics at Lancaster University. His areas of research expertise include identifying ideological borrowings between European and Arab nationalisms, the rise of the nation-state in the Middle East, the Syrian crisis, militarism and the construction of masculinity in the Arab world. . While at the Kroc Institute, she worked on two research projects focusing on state Islamism in Syria and the relationship between authoritarianism, religion, sectarianism and nationalism.

Tahir Aziz | (AM 03) is the 2021 Alumni Visiting Fellow. He currently works as the South Asia Program Director for Conciliation Resources in London and has over 15 years of experience in the areas of Mediation and Conflict Transformation. He currently heads the only international peacebuilding program operating in both the Indian and Pakistani administered territories of Kashmir.

csar route got his doctorate. in 2020 from the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. His research specializes in the study of violent conflict in the context of organized crime and human rights violations in Mexico. Before coming to Notre Dame, he was Director in the Peacebuilding Policies and Strategies Unit at the Secretariat for Security and Citizen Protection in Mexico. The Estradas scholarship is jointly sponsored by the Kroc Institute and the Kellogg Institute.

While at Notre Dame, Estrada will work to transform her doctoral thesis into a book-length monograph that examines how Mexico’s so-called war on drugs relies heavily on building social groups seen as disposable and killable subjects. The book will be titled Genocidal Violence amid Mexicos War on Drugs: A Critical Lens on Police and Criminal Brutality.

Felipe Roa Clavijo is a researcher and global policy officer for the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford, UK, and a rural reform specialist at the Barometer initiative in Colombia, as part of the Kroc Institutes Peace Accords Matrix program.

Felipes first book, Ta Food supply policy in Colombia: agrarian movements and negotiations with the State, is published by Routledge in October 2021.

Lisa Schirchis the Richard G. Starmann Sr. Visiting Professor in Peace Studies. Schirch’s role at the Kroc Institute will include teaching and writing a book on digital peacebuilding and peace technology, continuing his work on the design of the peace process in Afghanistan and Israel / Palestine, and researching the links between technology, media, climate peace processes and violent extremism.

Applications for the 2022-2023 Guest Research Fellowships will be accepted from September 15, 2021 to January 1, 2022. Learn more about the program and how to apply.

For more information, contact: Lisa Gallagher, [email protected]