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George A. Lopez is a founding faculty of the
George A. Lopez is a founding faculty of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
The College of Arts and Letters is the oldest and largest college within the University of Notre Dame. The Dean of the College of Arts and Letters is Sarah Mustillo.
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at the University of Notre Dame
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where he holds the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. Chair in Peace Studies
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. Lopez researches state violence and coercion, especially economic sanctions
Economic sanctions are commercial and financial penalties applied by one or more countries against a targeted self-governing state, group, or individual. Economic sanctions are not necessarily imposed because of economic circumstances—they ma ...
, human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...
, ethics and the use of force.
From 1988 through 1998, he chaired the Selection Committee of the Research and Writing Grants Committee of the MacArthur Foundation
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's Program in Peace and International Cooperation.
Lopez's investigation of UN sanctions on Iraq began in 1993 when he was asked to assist the UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs to develop methodologies for assessing sanctions impact. With David Cortright
David Cortright is an American scholar and peace activist. He is Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and chair of the Board of the Fourth Freedom Forum.Alistair Millar, Lopez wrote ''Winning Without War: Sensible Security Options for Dealing with Iraq'' in October 2002. The policy brief presented an alternative to the
invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was a United States-led invasion of the Republic of Iraq and the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion phase began on 19 March 2003 (air) and 20 March 2003 (ground) and lasted just over one month, including 26 ...
. Lopez and Cortight's research detailing the unlikely presence of WMDs in Iraq was detailed before the war in ''Disarming Iraq'' in '' Arms Control Today'' (September 2002) and re-articulated after the war in ''Containing Iraq: the Sanctions Worked'' in '' Foreign Affairs'' (July/August, 2004).
As a Senior Jennings Randolph Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is an American federal institution tasked with promoting conflict resolution and prevention worldwide. It provides research, analysis, and training to individuals in diplomacy, mediation, and other pea ...
in Washington, D.C. for 2009–10, Lopez wrote a small pamphlet called ''Can Sanctions Survive?''
Lopez's work has been published in '' Human Rights Quarterly'', ''International Studies Quarterly
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'', ''Journal of International Affairs
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'', '' The International Journal of Human Rights, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs'', and ''Mad Magazine
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''. With Michael Stohl Michael Stohl (born 1947)Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008 is Professor and a former Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He researches organizational and political com ...
, he has been editor and contributor to five books on repression and state terror, including ''Government Violence and Repression: An Agenda for Research'' (1986).
Since 2001, much of his writing has been devoted to debates regarding ethics and the use of force in the "war on terror
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". His commentaries have been published in ''The New York Times
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'', the '' LA Times'', the ''Chicago Tribune
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'', ''The Boston Globe
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'', ''The Christian Science Monitor
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'', ''The Indianapolis Star
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'' and every month for 2005 and 2006 in ''La Opinión
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''.
He received a Ph.D. (ABD) from Syracuse University in 1975.
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