Embracing Integral Human Development: What Difference Does It Make? A Research, Policy and Practice Agenda for Global Affairs

The Keough School’s Strategic Plan 2030 prioritizes four research programs, each with expressions in teaching, policy and professional practice, that advance Integral Human Development [IHD], a holistic model of human flourishing rooted in the inherent dignity of each person and every person. https://keough.nd.edu/integral-human-development/ The four programs are: Systems and Structures of Violence and Peace; Democracy, Governance, Institutions, and Rights; Poverty, Inequality, and Marginalization; and, Sustainability and Environmental Justice. The launch of Strategic Plan 2030 coincides with the 10 th anniversary of the establishment of the Keough School, the University of Notre Dame’s first policy school. This is an ideal time to celebrate publicly the achievements of the foundational decade; to assess critically how our research, informed by the values associated with IHD, actively shapes policies and development practices around the world; and, to ask how we can be more effective in doing so in the coming years. This is also a time to engage our partners in Europe and the Global South in collaborative efforts to address major global challenges to human dignity.