University of Notre Dame
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

Legacy Project Grantees

Current Grantees

Clingen Family Center’s Legacy Project Grant

Kerry Clamp, University of Nottingham, “Relational Accountability in Transitional Justice: Insights from Colombia’s Truth Commission Transmedia Files”

Kellogg Institute’s Legacy Project External Grant

Alejandro Posada-Tellez, University of Oxford, “War and Peace by Other Means: Narratives of Victimhood and the Politics of Transitional Justice”

Kellogg Institute’s Legacy Project Internal Grants

Evan Gaalswyk (MGA ’27), University of Notre Dame, “Building Peace, Defying Desperation: Ex-Combatant Perspectives on Reintegration in ECTRs”

Nicolas Buitrago Rey (J.S.D. candidate), University of Notre Dame, “Converging Truth and Justice: The Role of Colombia’s Truth Commission Final Report in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace”

Previous Grantees

Kellogg Institute’s Legacy Project External Grants

Helena Uran Bidegain, University of Hamburg (Germany), “From wartime confrontation to the struggle for memory/narratives of the assault on the palace of justice in Colombia”

Juliana Bustamante, Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “‘Diversity and inclusion methodologies in transitional justice: Best practice from the Colombian Truth Commission”

Lina Malagón, University of the West of England, “Gender and Ethnic approaches in the work of the Commission”

Cécile Mouly, Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “A Network Analysis of the work of the Truth Commission in Exile”

Kellogg Institute’s Legacy Project Internal Grants

Maria Eduarda Kobayashi Rossi (MGA ’26), “Healing wounds, (co)creating legacies: The importance of art in the work of the Truth Commission in Colombia,” Spring 2025

Matthew Bocanumenth (MGA ’24), Council for Global Equality

Josephine Lechartre (Ph.D. ’24), Tulane University

Clingen Family Center’s Legacy Project Grant

Kiran Stallone and Leigh Payne, University of Oxford, “How to confess to rape in the aftermath of conflict: A case study of Colombia”

Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, University of Warwick

Jamie Hagen, University of Manchester, “Recommendations to JEP for addressing Harms Against LGBTQ people in Colombia”

Non-Notre Dame Legacy Project Grants

Damien Rea, The Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice (Queens University Belfast), “The role of civil society in transitional justice in Colombia and Northern Ireland”

Cheryl Lawther, The Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice (Queens University Belfast), “Constructing Victimhood: Beyond Innocence and Guilt in Transitional Justice”

Gina Wirz-Suárez, Geneva Graduate Institute (Switzerland), “Forced Migration and Transnational Activism: The Case of Colombian Women in exile”