The Peace Studies and History doctoral program at the University of Notre Dame equips students with the analytical and conceptual tools of history to address these questions and related questions of peace and conflict. Doctoral students in the joint program choose from a wide range of history subfields including cultural, social, political, gender or religious history. Notre Dame offers particular strength at the intersection of history and religion, offering students opportunity to focus on questions related to colonialism, imperialism, and their relationships to contemporary conflicts, or the historical foundations of socioeconomic inequalities on global and local levels. With its attention to the elements of time and change and nuanced approach to case studies, history brings a valuable perspective to peace studies and enriches the analysis of conflict. Peace studies, in turn, with its unique concepts, language and body of literature, can enrich a historian's study of violence and understanding of peacebuilding strategies. Doctoral students in peace studies and history will be fully credentialed as historians, with the added benefits of exposure to and conversation with doctoral students and faculty from the doctoral program's six partner departments.