The tragic events of September 11 raise issues
which lie at the heart of the Kroc Institute's mission.
One of the Institute's main programs, the Program
in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding, provides insights
into the current situation through its exploration of the
role of religion in both fueling and mitigating contemorary
conflicts. The program is currently hosting four Rockefeller
Visiting Fellows, who are examining the role of Islam
in conflicts in several international flashpoints, including
the Middle East and Central Asia.
Both the United Nations Security Council and the United States
have responded to the events of September 11 by invoking smart,
targeted financial sanctions on Al-Queda and other wings of
known terror networks. A joint project of Fourth
Freedom Forum and the Kroc Institute has focused on targeted
sanctions for 3 years, producing a number of articles, books
and government consultations and reports, available on
this site and on the Fourth
Freedom Forum website.
The current global crisis also raises questions
about the ethics of the use of force, the
role of international institutions and norms, and the
need for social justice and equitable development, which have
been longstanding areas of interest at the Kroc Institute.
The Institute is responding to the global situation
through its 3 primary areas of activity: education, research,
and outreach. The Institute has organized several major campus
events to address various dimensions of the developing situation.
Faculty fellows have written editorials and commentaries on
current events and offered comments in the media. Links to
many of these publications and events are provided below,
together with links to background material and related information.
This page will be continuously updated, so please visit again
for the latest information.
Commentaries
"The Campaign Against
Terrorism," Kroc Institute Occasional Paper #22:OP:1,
by Daniel Lindley (April 2002).
Michael Baxter, "Becoming
a True Peace Church," National Catholic Reporter,
April 26, 2002.
George A. Lopez, "The
Style of the New War: Making the Rules as We Go Along,"
Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 16 (No. 1)
March, 2002.
Scott Appleby and Martin E. Marty, "Think Again: Fundamentalism,"
Foreign Policy, January/February 2002.
David Cortright, "Proposed: A More Effective and Just
Response to Terrorism," USA Today Magazine, January
2002.
Brian Cox & Daniel Philpott, "A
Time for Reconciliation,"
San Diego Union Tribune, January 11, 2002.
David Cortright, "A
Hard Look at Iraq Sanctions," The Nation,
December 3, 2001.
A. Rashied Omar, A Muslim's
Anguish in the Midst of the Attack on America, November
30, 2001
Scott Appleby, "The
Fundamentalist Factor," Lingua Franca,
Vol. 11, No. 8 (November 2001).
Daniel Lindley, "Don't
Doubt America's Will to Win a War," Chicago
Sun Times, October 26, 2001.
John Paul Lederach, "Quo
Vadis? Reframing Terror from the Perspective of Conflict Resolution,"
presented at the University of California, Irvine, Townhall
Meeting, October 24, 2001.
George Lopez, "After
Sept. 11: How Ethics Can Help," America,
October 8, 2001.
Cynthia Mahmood, "Kashmir
and the War on Terrorism," Kroc Institute Policy
Brief #8 (October 2001).
Scott Appleby, "Building
Peace to Combat Religious Terror," Chronicle
of Higher Education, September 28, 2001.
Rev. Patrick Gaffney, C.S.C., "Understanding
the Gulf Between Islam and the West," September
20, 2001.
John Paul Lederach, "The
Challenge of Terror: A Traveling Essay", September
16, 2001.
Interviews
"Efficacy
of Economic Sanctions," All Things Considered,
Tuesday, May 07, 2002 (an interview with David Cortright).
"Building
a Future of Hope," by Claire Schaeffer-Duffy,
National Catholic Reporter, April 26, 2002 (quoting
Tristan Borer and John Paul Lederach).
"America's New Plans for its Nuclear Arsenal" On
Point, hosted by Tom Ashbrook, March 14, 2002
(with George A. Lopez)
John J. Shaughnessy, "Taking
Risks for Peace," The Indianapolis Star,
February 17, 2002 (an article about Cynthia Mahmood).
Kenneth Woodward, "In
the Beginning, There Were the Holy Books," Newsweek
(cover story), February 11, 2002 (quoting Patrick Gaffney).
"Face
to Face with Jihad," (an interview with Cynthia
Mahmood), Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, October 8,
2001.
Campus Events
September 13, 2001
Current Affairs Panel Discussion:
After September 11: Rethinking Terrorism, War and Security
(co-sponsored by the Kellogg Institute)
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Scott Appleby
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Baroness Shirley Williams, deputy leader and
foreign-policy spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats in the
British House of Lords and advocate of anti-terrorism legislation
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Dan Lindley,
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George Lopez,
Director of Policy Studies, Kroc Institute
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Layna Mosley,
Assistant Professor, Government and International Studies
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September 20, 2001
Current Affairs Panel Discussion
After September 11: Christian and Muslim Holy Wars
(co-sponsored by the Kellogg Institute)
Scott Appleby,
Director, Kroc Institute
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Michael Baxter,
C.S.C., Assistant Professor of Theology
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William Cavanaugh, Visiting Fellow, Kellogg
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Patrick Gaffney,
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Cynthia Mahmood,
Associate Professor of Anthropology
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Rashied Omar,
Administrative Coordinator, Kroc Institute
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October 3, 2001
After September 11: Civil Liberties, Human
Rights, and Legal Remedies
Co-sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International
Studies and the Center for Civil and Human Rights
Panelists:
Patricia
Bellia, Assistant Professor of Law
Robert
Johansen, Professor of Government and International
Studies
Garth
Meintjes, Associate Director, Center for Civil and
Human Rights
Juan Mendez,
Professor of Law; Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights
Dinah Shelton,
Professor of Law, Center For Civil and Human Rights
November 1, 2001
The Economic Causes and Consequences of the September 11 Attacks
Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics,
the Department of Finance and Business Economics, and the
Higgins Labor Research Center, and the Kroc Institute
Panelists:
Thomas Cosimano,
Mendoza College of Business
Teresa
Ghilarducci, Economics Department
Kwan
Kim, Economics Department
Eduardo Zambrano,
Mendoza College of Business
November 11-16
A
Week of Education on Peace and War, a series of
panel discussions in the dorms, lectures, films and other
events focusing on the September 11 attacks and subsequent
events
November 5, 2001
Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law: Avenues for Conflict
Resolution
Khaled
Abou El Fadl, Acting Professor of Law, the Omar and
Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Fellow in Islamic Law, UCLA
November 12, 2001
War, Peace and Imperatives of Justice: An Islamic Perspective
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theology
John
Kelsay, Richard L. Rubenstein Professor in the Department
of Religion, Florida State University
November 19, 2001
Israel's Quest for Peace and the War Against
Terrorism
Moshe
Ram, Consul General of Israel to the Midwest, Chicago,
IL
Background Materials
Samina Ahmed and David Cortright, South
Asia at the Nuclear Crossroads, a Joint Publication
of the Managing the Atom Project at Harvard University, the
Fourth Freedom Forum, and the Kroc Institute, March 2001.
Scott Appleby, The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion,
Violence, and Reconciliation (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield,
2000).
Scott Appleby, "Holy Rejectionists: Extremists and
Nationalists," American Foreign Service Journal,
January 2001.
Scott Appleby, ed., Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist
Leaders of the Middle East (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1996).
David Cortright, Alistair Millar, and George A. Lopez, "Smart
Sanctions, Restructuring UN Policy in Iraq,"
Policy Report published by the Kroc Institute and Fourth Freedom
Forum (April 2001).
David Cortright and George A. Lopez, The Sanctions Decade:
Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s (Boulder, CO: Lynne
Rienner Publishers, 2000).
George A. Lopez, "Toward
Smart Sanctions on Iraq," Kroc Institute Policy
Brief #5 (April 2001).
Alan Dowty, "Israel
under Sharon: The Tunnel at the End of the Light,"
Policy Brief #6 (June 2001).
Rev. Patrick Gaffney, C.S.C., The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic
Preaching in Contemporary Egypt (Berkeley: University
of California Press 1994).
Neve Gordon and George A. Lopez, "Terrorism in the Arab-Israeli
Conflict," Kroc Institute Occasional Paper #18:OP:1 (May
1999).
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Robert Johansen, "U.S.
Opposition to the International Criminal Court: Unfounded
Fears," Kroc Institute Policy Brief #7 (June
2001).
Related Kroc Research Projects
Program
in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding (PRCP)
The Sanctions Project
(a collaboration with Fourth
Freedom Forum)
Research Initiative on the
Resolution of Ethnic Conflict (RIREC)
Kroc Institute - Jawaharlal
Nehru University Peace Studies Academic Exchange
Links to other Resources
Fourth
Freedom Forum
JustResponse
Hesburgh
Library Virtual Reference Desk Page on"America Under
Attack"
SSRC - After September
11: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
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