![]() '95) ( Fall 2022) is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and International Studies at Denison University. ![]() ![]() ![]() She will spend her time at the Institute, during Fall 2022, writing a narrative storytelling book designed to translate her twelve years of experiences in close proximity to ongoing violence in El Salvador into a tool that will serve peacebuilding pedagogy and practice. Much of her work has centered on supporting youth experiencing incarceration in processing and sharing their stories, in an effort to shift toward restorative responses to violence in an otherwise highly punitive setting. She is a peacebuilding practitioner who has been working in El Salvador for the past decade on various trauma healing and community organizing initiatives. This book project is an interdisciplinary work of critical educational scholarship that resides at the nexus of critical race feminism, historical memory, and political education. She has been teaching and writing curriculum for over 20 years in Chicago and Urbana, Illinois, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.ĭuring her time at Kroc, Dávila aims to amplify the work of women of color activists within the Chicago Young Lords and other activist groups who held educational justice at the forefront. He has extensive experience as a practitioner and policymaker.ĭuring his time at the Kroc Institute, he will work on two projects: conducting original research with the Peace Accords Matrix on the place of reconciliation in peace agreements, and completing his monograph, The Path Towards Reconciliation after Colombia’s War: Understanding the Roles of Victims and Perpetrators, based on an investigation he led for the United Nations in 2015.Įrica Dávila (Academic Year 2022-23) is Professor of Educational Leadership at Lewis University. His research focuses on the causes, consequences and legacies of political violence (particularly mass collective violence), and how states, societies and international actors move on from protracted episodes of egregious violence. Roddy Brett (Academic Year 2022-23) is an Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Bristol. These connections and relationships last far beyond fellows’ stay here on campus and expand our global network of peace scholars and practitioners.” “For the Kroc Institute, these fellows bring new and innovative areas of expertise for our students and faculty to collaborate with and learn from. “This unique program provides our fellows a tremendous opportunity to focus solely on their scholarly writing and intellectual contributions to the field of peace studies while in residence at the Kroc Institute,” said Erin Corcoran, acting director of the Kroc Institute. Visiting research fellows actively integrate their research with ongoing Institute research initiatives and participate in events and lectures as part of the Institute’s learning community. ![]() The Kroc Institute’s Visiting Research Fellows Program brings outstanding scholars focused on peace research to the University of Notre Dame for a semester or a full academic year. The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies is pleased to announce that five scholars began their terms as visiting research fellows at the start of the 2022-23 academic year. Visiting Research Fellows for Fall 2022 (from left to right): Jenna Knapp, Erica Dávila, Roddy Brett, Nilofar Sakhi, and Isis Nusair ![]()
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