Peacebuilding & Research Lead
Julie Hawke is committed to understanding the impacts of digital technologies on conflicts and how best to leverage their use in strategic peacebuilding efforts. She has over a decade of experience in third-party conflict engagement, global youth peace education, and digital peacebuilding program design and management. Bridging scholarship and practice, Hawke is a doctoral student of peace studies and sociology at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, where her research centers on defining conditions for positive intergroup contact in online spaces. She has produced research and resources for practitioners that include “The Digital Peacebuilder’s Guide” (2022), “Monitoring of Social Media Provisions in Peace Agreements” (2024), and “Digital Peacebuilding 101: Introducing Technology for Peacebuilding” (2020). On the Build Up team, she co-leads social media-based peacebuilding and analysis programs, training and online courses, and research and policy initiatives.
