THE CONSORTIUM for PEACE STUDIES

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THE CONSORTIUM for PEACE STUDIES
Our Vision To make innovative contributions to
peace studies locally and globally.

• at the University of Calgary

Our Mission The Consortium for Peace Studies at
the University of Calgary is dedicated to
reducing the human and environmental cost of
violence through outstanding scholarship, applied
research and education in peace studies, which
create partnerships for a secure, healthy and
creative global environment.
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Consortium for Peace StudiesVital Statistics
Our Vision To make innovative contributions to
peace studies locally and globally.

• May 15 2005 Official Launch of the Consortium
  for Peace Studies
• 18,000 2005/06 Budget donations in
  kind office space, admin support, ½ time
  employee
• 27,500 2006/07 Budget
• donations in kind office space, admin
  support, ½ time employee
• 10 University Faculties involved in the
  Consortium
• 27 Official members of the Consortium
  Committee
• 5,625 Dollars donated by Consortium members and
  individuals in the community, matched by Dr.
  Arthur Clark
• Three News publications who have discussed the
  Consortium since its inception

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Peace Studies
Our Vision To make innovative contributions to
peace studies locally and globally.

• Consortium for Peace Studies Research Program
  Streams
• The Role of Civil Society in Peacebuilding
• Peace Education Curriculum Design
• The link between Sustainable Development and
  Peace
• Prevention of Violent Conflict
• Defining a Healthy Global Community
• Peace studies is an interdisciplinary field
  encompassing the humanities, the Social Sciences,
  Social Work, Law and the medical and nursing
  faculties. Researchers are concerned with war and
  peace, human security and meeting basic human
  needs, violence and nonviolence, conflict and
  conflict resolution, and preventing violent
  conflict. Research takes place at all levels,
  from the macro-level examining international
  peace work, to the micro-level examining internal
  conflict and peace in the individual.
• Peace Studies research is centered on the
  philosophy that achieving peace is difficult
  but possible.

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May 2005 Present Public Events
Our Vision To make innovative contributions to
peace studies locally and globally.

• September 21 2005 Peace Fair on campus and
  International Peace Day celebrations
• September 23 2005 Consortium/Department of
  Education Visiting Scholar Speakers Series - Ian
  Harris Peace Studies in an age of Terrorism
• October 15 2005 Paul Williams Roberts A War
  Against Truth Behind the Lines of the Iraq
  Invasion
• October 20 2005 Parhad 2005 Lecture and
  Roundtable - Responsibility to Care A Medical
  Approach to Ending War

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May 2005 Present Public Events
Our Vision To make innovative contributions to
peace studies locally and globally.

• November 21 2005 Jonah Gindin Sowing the Oil
  Venezuela, Oil Policy and Social Development
• November 23 2005 IPRA Speakers Series Patterns
  of Conflict, Paths to Peace David Suzuki
• February 10 2005 Panel at SMSS student
  conference Civil Society and Peacebuilding

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May 2005 Present Member Projects
Our Vision To make innovative contributions to
peace studies locally and globally.
Jen Geary Research paper Adult Education
and Indigenous Peoples Moving Forward From
Terrorism Sen. Doug Roche publication of latest
research book Beyond Hiroshima Jim Smith
establishment of the Peace Profiles Database
project John Burgner Calgary PeaceWaves
Project Larry Fisk Book Reviews (John Synott
Global and International Studies and Doug Roche
The Human Right to Peace) George Melnyk
Consortium Fundraising Challenge

• Diane Pask paper presentation at the
  Asia-Pacific Peace Research conference in Jaipur,
  December 2005
• Bob Stewart Peace Leaders The Art of Peace
  Leadership conference www.peace.ca
• Yvonne Hebert 2 publications Negotiating
  Transcultural Lives Belongings and Social
  Capital among Youth in Comparative Perspective
•    Values, Human Rights and Citizenship
  Education in Transnational Perspectives in the
  Journal Canadian and International Education

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The 2006/2007 Year
Our Vision To make innovative contributions to
peace studies locally and globally.

• Interdisciplinary Research Project
• Calgary Peace Prize
• Alberta Universities Peace Essay Prize
• IPRA 2006
• Peace Studies Lecture Series
• Peace Research Fellowship
• Internship Student/Summer Student

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The Future of Peace Studies at the University of
Calgary
Our Vision To make innovative contributions to
peace studies locally and globally.

• Phase 1 Research Program and Public Outreach,
  2006/07 2008/09
• Solidifying the visibility of the Consortium
  through quality research and public education
  programs is the primary goal of phase one.
  Launching a research program, developing a
  Certificate in Peace Studies, and continuing,
  through our community partnerships, to create
  quality public events are our priorities in this
  phase. Linked to these priorities is the
  ever-present need to secure funding for both our
  short-term and our long-term initiatives.

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The Future of Peace Studies at the University of
Calgary
Our Vision To make innovative contributions to
peace studies locally and globally.

• Phase 2
• Securing Research Centre Status and Launching a
  Teaching program
• (2009/10 - ?)
• We anticipate that after three years, we will
  have the funding, the support and the research
  record to secure research institute/centre status
  on the University campus. Once this status is
  secure, our goals will be to enhance our research
  program, and develop an interdisciplinary
  academic program in Peace Studies for University
  of Calgary students. The academic program will
  likely take the form of a Minor in Peace Studies,
  where students will take a new year-long capstone
  course developed by the Centre for Peace Studies
  in addition to options from a carefully-selected
  list of existing academic courses across U of Cs
  faculties. Through these academic initiatives, we
  will continue to maintain our relationships
  outside the University, co-hosting events and
  educational seminars with local and international
  peace activist groups.
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The Future of Peace Studies at the University of
Calgary
Our Vision To make innovative contributions to
peace studies locally and globally.

• Phase 3
• Excellence in Research and Peace Studies Graduate
  Program
• By phase three, we will have established the
  Centre for Peace Studies as a centre for research
  excellence in the area of Peace Studies. Our
  focus will be on continued excellence in
  research, the development of young peace studies
  scholars through a Peace Studies graduate
  program, and eventually the development of a
  full interdisciplinary undergraduate major in
  Peace Studies.