David Cortright

George A. Lopez (Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1975) is a founding faculty of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame where he now holds the Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. Chair in Peace Studies. Lopez's research interests focus primarily on the problems of state violence and coercion, especially economic sanctions, gross violations of human rights, and ethics and the use of force.