Experts in conflict, security, and governance are available to speak to the media about the role of research in addressing new and volatile threats to peace.

Professor John Ravenhill, director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs

John Ravenhill

Robotic weapons and unmanned drones are increasingly replacing soldiers on the battlefield. Terrorist groups have become as lethal as national armies. States now see their own citizens as security threats. Accompanying all of these developments has been a systematic undermining of the decades-old international laws of war. Now more than ever we need academic institutions to work together with governments to craft creative responses to the new security challenges.

Professor Lowell Ewert, director of Peace and Conflict Studies, Conrad Grebel University College 

Lowell Ewert

Events in the world today profoundly demonstrate how violence begets violence.  It is impossible to kill one’s way to peace.  What is needed is a new paradigm of mutual respect, human rights, affirmation of the dignity of everyone, which is formed and strengthened through education.



 

Professor Suzan Ilcan, director of Waterloo’s Global Governance program

Susan Ilcan

We will need new and bold thinking if we are to have any hope of addressing conflict and governance challenges taking place in regions around the world. The necessity for empirically sound, policy-relevant research devoted to the pursuit of peace and social justice is as pressing as ever.


 

The University of Waterloo has multi-disciplinary strength in scholarship and teaching that tackles evolving problems in global conflict, security, governance, and peace. 

International Day of Peace (“Peace Day”) is observed around the world each year on 21 September. Established in 1981 by resolution 36/37, the United Nations General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.

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