OUR MISSION

The Marquette University Center for Peacemaking empowers the university and the wider community to explore together the necessary skills to become informed, spiritually-centered, nonviolent peacemakers. Rooted in the Ignatian charism, the center fosters an awakening to the holistic relationship of scholarship, spirituality, nonviolent living, and the active struggle for peace and justice.

Center for Peacemaking Overview

We are proud to share an overview of the Center for Peacemaking with you that highlights our first three years and outlines our goals for the future. Download.

PeaceCasts

Watch presentations from our Distinguished Peacemakers on the 2010-11 events page.

Nonviolence Study Group

Come to the Nonviolence Study Group meetings the second and fourth Wednesday of the month from 7-8:30 p.m. Learn more about the meetings.

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Events

Making a Living, Making a Difference

Thursday, March 1, 4:00 p.m., AMU Ballrooms

Can you make a living making peace? Yes. Come learn and connect with local professionals to discuss paths and skills to build a career that contributes to the common good.

Program with Keynote Address (4:00-5:00 p.m.) Keynote speakers Bill & Terry Szymczak of Preservation Partners Development and Cornucopia Services will describe how they used managerial experience and financial expertise to rehabilitate and permanently preserve existing affordable housing for those most affected by the housing crisis: the elderly, new families and low-income wage earners.

Informational Interview Fair (5:00-5:30 p.m.) A resource fair where representatives from the private and the nonprofit sectors will share with student attendees their organization's mission and career paths in local, national and international work that benefits the public good. Discuss transferrable/desired skill sets in professions within the organization, highlight internships and promote job opportunities.

The event is hosted by the Marquette University Center for Peacemaking and Office of Student Development's Hunger Clean-Up Student Leadership Team with sponsorship from the Kohl's Career Education Scholarship and the Marquette University Career Services Center.

Soup with Substance: The Genesis of Violence: Child Abuse

Wednesday, February 8, 12:00-1:00 p.m., AMU 157

A person's first encounter with violence is sadly, often in the home, and often as a child. This interdisciplinary panel examines the phenomenon of child abuse from various aspects - psychological, physical, philosophical, and theological. What are its possible side effects on the person in the short and long term? Are there ways to heal or counteract those effects? Each panelist will make a brief presentation to allow for subsequent interaction among panelists and with those present. The panel is presented in honor of Mrs. Joan Ellwood Thomas, whose lifelong concern was for the welfare of women and children.

Dr. Theresa Tobin, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, Simon Harak, S.J., Director, Marquette University Center for Peacemaking, and Eva Cribben, Program Therapist at Milwaukee Academy, will serve as panelists.

Spring 2012 Calendar of Events

 

News

Peacemakers in Residence 2011-2012

March 27-30, 2012

Each year the Center for Peacemaking invites an internationally recognized nonviolent theorist/activist to stay for one week as Marquette University's Peacemaker in Residence.

This year we have two Peacemakers in Residence; Sara Terry, filmmaker and former correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor S. TerryL. Hoffmanand Libby Hoffman, international

peacemaker and founder of Peace Discovery Initiative and Catalyst for Peace. They will visit Marquette during the Spring 2012 semester from March 27 through March 30, 2012.

The Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies: Call for Proposals for the 26th Annual Student Conference

Proposal Deadline: February 20, 2012

This conference hosted by the Marquette University Center for Peacemaking invites college and university students from Wisconsin and surrounding states to send submissions for its annual conference. Find out more.

Szymczak Peacemaking Fellows Summer 2012 Application Information

Application Deadline: February 17, 2012

Szymczak Peacemaking Fellowships foster the development of nonviolent peacemakers by providing students the opportunity to put nonviolence into practice.

The Center for Peacemaking is offering $200 to $2,000 grants for full-time Marquette students to explore the power of nonviolence. Fellows are encouraged to develop a proposal in which they will work independently or with existing peacemaking and/or development organizations.

Download the Szymczak Peacemaking Fellows application and application procedures.