Jan. 23 issue
Conrad Grebel launches master of peace studies
By Jen Konkle Conrad Grebel University CollegeWATERLOO, Ont. — Culminating more than a decade of dreaming and a year of intense work, Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo announced the launch of a new master of peace and conflict studies program in December.
The program focuses on the pivotal role individuals within civil society play as catalysts for peace. It will begin this fall.
While the field of peace and conflict studies has been steadily growing for a decade, the number of graduate programs available in Canada has not kept pace. It will become one of only a handful of peace and conflict studies graduate programs in Canada.
The program will put specific emphasis on empowering civil society in fostering positive change.
“Civil society is key to peacebuilding because it brings out the best in humanity by inspiring citizens to take responsibility for their communities and develop creative solutions to local issues,” said Lowel Ewert, director of the peace and conflict studies program at Conrad Grebel. “Imagine how impoverished our communities would be if there were no effective civil society organizations.”
The program will draw on the resources that Conrad Grebel’s Peace and Conflict Studies Department — the oldest such department in Canada — and the University of Waterloo have to offer.
“Peace studies are in our DNA”, said Conrad Grebel President Susan Schultz Huxman. “The undergraduate program in PACS has been wildly successful by many measures. College stakeholders recognized this 15 years ago when they first began developing the idea for graduate education at Grebel.”
Applications for the graduate program are being accepted by the graduate studies office at the University of Waterloo.
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