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	Lopez installed as first Hesburgh Chair in Peace Studies


    
      
        
          Lopez installed as first Hesburgh Chair in Peace Studies

          
            
              
                
                Published: April 06, 2008
              

              
                Author: Joan Fallon
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

George A. Lopez was installed as Notre Dames first Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor of Peace Studies on April 1.

A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1986, Lopez is a leading scholar of repression and human rights violations, ethics and the use of force, and economic sanctions. He is a founding faculty member of Notre Dames Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

Lopez serves as an advisor to the U.N. Security Council, the European Union, and governments, foundations and organizations involved in human rights, international affairs and peace research. He has written extensively on repression and state terror. Since 1992, he and Kroc research fellow David Cortright have published five books and more than 25 articles and book chapters on economic sanctions.

In 2002, Lopez and Cortright became particularly influential among those seeking an alternative to war with Iraq. Their research disputing the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was published before the war inArms Control Todayand later inForeign Affairs.Their most recent book,Uniting Against Terrorconcerns the application of sanctions to counter-terrorism.

A popular speaker, teacher and media commentator, Lopez has twice received Notre Dames Kaneb Teaching Award.He also is the 2008 recipient of the Frank OMalley award, given annually by the student government to an outstanding member of the Notre Dame faculty.

The Hesburgh Chair was established by the Kroc Institute to honor Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president emeritus of Notre Dame, for his lifetime commitment to peace and justice.

Video of Lopezinaugural lecture,The Sanctions Mystique: The Power and Perils of Multilateral Economic Coercion,is available at http://kroc.nd.edu/pastevents..

_ Contact: George Lopez, 574-631-6972,_  " glopez@nd.edu ":mailto:glopez@nd.edu

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