2026 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference: “New Game, New Peaces: Strategies for a Shifting Field”

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Location: Hesburgh Center for International Peace Studies and Jenkins-Nanovic Halls/Select sessions on Zoom Webinar

The Notre Dame Student Peace Conference is right around the corner! Set to take place Friday and Saturday, April 10-11, the conference is an annual student-focused academic event organized by undergraduate students as a space to engage in academic and professional dialogue on issues of peacebuilding, justice, and conflict transformation.

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This year’s theme, “New Game, New Peaces: Strategies for a Shifting Field,” tackles complex issues in light of global paradigm shifts impacting the peacebuilding field. Conference presentations and sessions will address changes to international order that are dissolving well-established norms and law, rendering them ineffectual and archaic, and explore new, groundbreaking approaches to peacebuilding that respond to these shifts.

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Registration is required but free thanks to continued sponsorship by the Kroc Institute. Click here to register; the registration deadline is 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 9 to receive a full set of conference materials, refreshments during session breaks, and up to three conference meals. 

After the deadline, those interested in attending can register onsite upon arrival.

All students are weclome to attend, even if not presenting. Learn more and register at http://sites.nd.edu/peacecon/.

Originally published at kroc.nd.edu.