George Lopez
Hesburgh Professor of Peace Studies
- Department
- Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies
- College or School
- Keough School of Global Affairs
- Year of Emeritus Status 2013
George A. Lopez is the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, where he was a founding faculty member. Lopez has engaged in a diverse set of policy and public roles, including interim executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1997 and chaired its Board of Directors (1998-2003), presiding over changing the hands of the Doomsday Clock in 2002.
As a senior research associate at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs in New York City in 2001-02, he assisted with the Council’s post-9/11 public programming throughout the U.S. He held a Senior Jennings Randolph Fellowship from 2009-10 at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington, D.C. and in 2013-15, he served as Vice President at USIP. In February 2017, he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Peace Studies Section of the International Studies Association. In November 2019, he was named a non-resident Fellow of the newly formed Quincy Institute in Washington, DC. Lopez was the founding director of the Kroc Institute’s annual Summer Institute on "Teaching Peace in the 21st Century".
He has written more than 40 articles and book chapters and authored or edited six books (often with Kroc Institute faculty member David Cortright) on sanctions. Lopez and Cortright’s research detailing the unlikely presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq published before the 2003 Iraq War as “Disarming Iraq” in Arms Control Today and after the war as “Containing Iraq: the Sanctions Worked” in Foreign Affairs. Lopez recently has been part of a project on lessening the consequences of sanctions for civilians. https://ahsrproject.org
Email: lopez.1@nd.edu
Website https://kroc.nd.edu/