Measuring human dignity — assessing various aspects of an individual's well-being, rights, and intrinsic value — is inherently challenging due to its subjective nature. While there isn’t a universally accepted tool for measuring human dignity, the Pulte Institute explores how institutions and individuals demonstrate respect for human dignity.
The Pulte Institute has a long record of bringing together cross-sector academics and researchers from Central America to study the root causes of migration and what can be done to mitigate it at the local level — and to support those forced to flee desperate circumstances.
Sept. 30 marks Canada’s 3rd National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The Pulte Institute’s inaugural director, Ray Offenheiser, reminds us that reconciliation requires the cooperative building of concrete development opportunities, not simply nice words and public spectacle. It also means economic justice.
It has been 20 years since the United States and its allies invaded Iraq in their “war on terror.” What the U.S. sold as a grim but necessary surgical strike for democracy and stability in the Middle East worsened the conditions in which women and children live.
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The devastating toll offers a stark reminder of the urgent need for global communities to strengthen infrastructure to withstand natural hazards like typhoons and earthquakes.
In December, Afghanistan’s Taliban regime ordered all non-governmental groups to suspend employing women, allegedly because some female employees didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly. This “gender apartheid” also devastates Afghan hunger and health.
Earthquakes and tsunamis, referred to among humanitarians as “rapid onset disasters,” strike suddenly on a massive scale, leaving widespread death and destruction and overwhelming local and national response capacities.
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At the Pulte Institute, we’re focused on identifying and resolving the systemic causes of the border crisis — versus just dealing with its effects.
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Pulte research staffer Lizzie Dolan walks through the SHARE ecosystems workshop process, and to her experience in Kenya and Cambodia, where some of these workshops were most recently held. SHARE, or Supporting Holistic and Actionable Research in Education, is the largest federally funded grant in Notre Dame's history. Click to read more to learn about our research, and our connections to our local partners and this project.
Notre Dame Law graduate, Maria Camila Ospina, shares her experiences from a recent trip to Paraguay as part of the Rule of Law and Culture of Integrity program with the Pulte Institute.
2019 Mandela Washington Fellow Jess Manhinca has organized the Notre Dame-Mandela Washington Fellows Talk, a series of webinars covering a variety of topics for entrepreneurs. The first webinar "Businesses Post COVID-19" will be held on May 15, 2020.
2017 Mandela Washington Fellow Alfred Kankuzi is taking action to help stop disinformation and provide potentially life-saving information to his fellow Malawians. In early April, Alfred discovered that most Malawians were learning about COVID-19 through social media, which was causing more confusion, fear and panic, and saw an opportunity to create an app that could break local language barriers and provide accurate information to as many people in Malawi as possible.
