Programs
Joan B. Kroc Distinguished Lecture Series Booklets
Booklets include biographies, interviews, lecture transcripts, question-and-answer segments and a list of related resources.
All booklets are also available in print - click here to order.
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2011-2012 Lectures - "Religion and Peacebuilding"
"Building Bridges, Rebuilding Societies"
Zainab Salbi Founder, Women to Women International
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"Compassionate Presence: Faith-Based Peacebuilding in the Face of Violence"
Professor of International Peacebuilding, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
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"Cultivating Peace and Justice"
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader of Tibet |
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2010-2011 Lectures - "Challenges to Post-Conflict Peacebuilding"
"From Peace Talks to Gender Justice" Chief Commissioner, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission |
"Breaking the Cycle of Violent Conflict"
Johan Galtung Founder, International Peace Research Institute |
"Achieving Justice for Victims of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity"
Stephen J. Rapp U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues |
"Children and Armed Conflict: The International Response"
Radhika Coomaraswamy U.N. Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative for Armed Conflict |
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2009-2010 Lectures - "Development and Peacebuilding"
"Development: Creating Sustainable Justice" Paul Farmer Co-founder of Partners in Health and U.N. Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti |
"From the Boardroom to the Border: Negotiating for Sustainable William Ury Co-founder and Senior Fellow of the Harvard Negotiation Project Co-author of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
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"Aid That Works: Creating a 21st Century Vision for U.S. Development Assistance"
President, Oxfam America |
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2008-2009 Lectures - "Protecting Fundamental Freedoms"
"Integrating Security, Development and Human Rights" The Honorable Louise Arbour Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
"Armed Conflict: The Cost to Civilians" Ambassador Jan Eliasson Former Special Envoy of the U.N. Secretary-General for Darfur Former Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs |
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2007-2008 Lectures - “The Nexus of Environment and Conflict"
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2006-2007 Lectures -
"Global Security Through Human Dignity"
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"Women, War, Peace: Politics in Peacebuilding"
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Alma Viviana Pérez |
Irene Santiago Chair and CEO of the Mindanao Commission on Women Co-founder of the Mothers for Peace Movement in the Philippines Biography |
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2005-2006 Lectures -“Securing Justice in the Pursuit of Peace”
"U.S. Policy in East Asia and the Pacific" Ambassador Christopher R. HillAssistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Biography |
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2004-2005 Lectures -
"Human Rights Under Pressure"
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The Honorable Lloyd Axworthy |
"Women, War and Peace: Mobilizing for Security and Justice in the 21st Century" Noeleen HeyzerExecutive Director of U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Biography |
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2003-2004 Lectures -
"Preventing Deadly Conflict"
Yugoslavia and Rwanda |
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John Paul Lederach



Jan Egeland
Kenneth Roth
Jane Goodall
Shirin Ebadi
The Honorable Gareth Evans
Miria Matembe 
Irene Santiago
Ambassador Christopher R. Hill
His Excellency Ketmile Masire
William F. Schulz
Hanan Ashrawi
Noeleen Heyzer
Mary Robinson
Justice Richard Goldstone
Ambassador Donald K. Steinberg
General Anthony C. Zinni 
