2024
April 2024
- Fiona Li, the winner of the 2024 Map the System Campus Finals
- Investing in peace: How you can support the Centre for Peace Advancement
- Peace Innovators showcase and application
March 2024
- Systems-Thinking in Action: Students Explore Pressing Issues at Campus Finals
- Finding Hope: How Findsuri is Reuniting Families
- Calling for accountability on Canadian arms exports to Israel
February 2024
- Addressing Rapid Technological Change: The Technology Governance Initiative
- X Page: Empowering Women Through Stories
- Tamarack Institute Changemaker Experience: Creating Leaders for Tomorrow
January 2024
- Navigating Complex Challenges: Map the System Begins
- Empowering Change: A New Year Brings New Students To The Centre
2023
December 2023
- Media mentions 2023: A year of inspiration
- PeaceTech beyond Grebel
November 2023
- New Research Fellows at the Centre for Peace Advancement
- Mary Kavanagh visits the Grebel Gallery
- Mapping systems with Jordan Li
October 2023
- Catching up with a fast-growing TREE
- Advancing peace by engaging governments
- October connections
September 2023
- A recap of Peace Week
- Grebel Gallery presents Trinity, Then and Now
- Welcome BWOSS to the Grebel Peace Incubator!
August 2023
- Peace Week is around the corner
- Empowering tomorrow's leaders: the Peace Innovators Scholarship and Mentoring Program
- Nurturing purpose and unity: Green Care Farms Community Day
- End of term means goodbye
July 2023
- Uniting communities for a peaceful tomorrow
- Shaping the future and exploring innovation through the AI Governance Hackathon
June 2023
- Bringing centres into alignment
- Mapping systems in Canada and beyond
- A month of learning
May 2023
- Mapping systems in Canada and beyond
- Innovation ecosystem heats up with the summer
- Peace through art
- Spring means new staff!
- Tamarack features in a new global resource
April 2023
- Map the System campus finals a huge success!
- Peace Innovators applications deadline extended
- Your wall can (not) divide us exhibit extended
- Breaking through community change
- Spring changes in the Centre staff
March 2023
- In-person Map the System campus finals!
- Looking for next year's Peace Innovators
- Visit "Your Wall Can (Not) Divide Us"
- Article on MCC conference on Indigenous wisdom and political advocacy
- Participants in the news
February 2023
- Donation opportunities in response to earthquake in Syria and Turkiye
- Majid Mirza honoured with changemaker award
- Tech for Social Cohesion conference in San Francisco
January 2023
- Welcoming new incubator participants
- Welcoming Selah Woelk as Program Assistant
- Reflection on the opening of "Your Wall Can (Not) Divide Us" gallery launch
2022
December 2022
-
Grebel Peace Incubator highlights
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Core Collaborator highlights
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Program highlights
November 2022
- Union co-op secures 58 affordable homes!
- Majid Mirza featured in Waterloo Magazine
- PeaceTech conference in Florence, Italy
- CPA and Project Ploughshares launch re-formatted websites
October 2022
- Canadian Pugwash and BSIA policy conference
- Celebrating Islamic Heritage and Latin American Heritage months
- and LGBTQIA+ History and Women's History months
September 2022
- National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
- PeaceTech in the news
- Peace Week lives on at the Grebel Gallery
- New part-time staff in the CPA
August 2022
- Get ready for Peace Week 2022
- Welcoming Teresa Edge
- Demine Robotics: Where are they now?
- Not Just Science Fiction: Space Security
July 2022
- Peace Week 2022
- Who's who: Students at the CPA this spring
- X Page: Storytelling Workshop Performance
- ESGTree joins Velocity Incubator
June 2022
- Starting small: localizing the Sustainable Development Goals
- CPA Coordinator position opening
- Cassie Myers leads Lunaria into full bloom
- Systems mapping reveals interconnected webs in the Church
May 2022
- Waterloo students bring housing crisis to national stage through Map the System
- Peace Innovators gather to showcase youth-led impacts
- Rebekah Churchyard sweeps the Rhyze Ventures Awards
- Indigenous-Mennonite Encounters in Time and Place
- Ernie Regehr featured in The Globe and Mail
April 2022
- Celebrating the fourth annual Map the System Waterloo campus final
- Centre's Mitacs partnership helps student-entrepreneurs
- Centre featured in Waterloo's first SDG report
- Majid Mirza named a LinkedIn Top Voice in Green Economy
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Victoria Lumax returns to the Centre as Coordinator
March 2022
- Local peacebuilding community responds to global conflict in Ukraine
- Cassie Myers featured in Global Impact Report
- Incubator funding expands programming
- Incubator alum raises $3.6M in seed funding
February 2022
- Peace Innovators pitch for start-up funding
- Crisis in Ukraine
- Incubator alumni spotlight: Jessica Reesor Rempel
January 2022
- Interdisciplinary research competition begins at Waterloo
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Using data to advance diversity, equity and inclusion
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Leadership transitions at Tamarack Insititute
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Leadership transitions at The Ripple Effect Education
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Demine Robotics winds down operations
2021
December 2021
- Twelve Months of Peace: 2021 Highlights
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Curating Farms and Hair Care
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Time for Canada to join the nuclear abolition movement?
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#12 Days for Good
November 2021
- Map the System 2022 is underway!
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Grebel Now Fall 2021
October 2021
- Meet the co-op keeping housing affordable in Waterloo Region
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Making Space for Trauma and Healing
- 2SLGBTQ+ History Month
September 2021
- Peace Week 2021: Reflection, resilience and recovery
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2021-2022 Peace Innovators begin their changemaking journey
- Five years of The Ripple Effect Education (TREE)
August 2021
- Special report: Project Ploughshares and Amnesty International on Canada's role in arming Saudi Arabia
- Union Co-operative provides permanent rental affordability through community ownership
July 2021
- Podcasting for peace
- GeoMate launches the Accessible City Challenge (ACE)
- CCBR's new efforts to support peacebuilding organizations
- Transitions in the CPA community
June 2021
- ESGTree releases new Benchmark Analysis Tool
- New MPACS scholarship honours Malcolm X
- Reflecting on the 2021 Map the System global final
- Bridging restorative justice and peace advancement
May 2021
- Celebrating Katie Gingerich as a voice of women for peace
- UWaterloo Map the System team goes global
- Local youth innovate for peace in the Region of Waterloo
- Systems Week 2021
April 2021
- Map the System brings Waterloo students around the world
- Advancing peace takes many hands
- Raising the volume on Unmute
- Saying "until next time" to the Centre's Winter 2021 co-op students
March 2021
- Peace Incubator participant receives national Changemaker award
- The impact of COVID-19 on refugees
- The Centre for Peace Advancement welcomes Emily Charron
- Excitement grows for Map the System 2021
February 2021
- The Ripple Effect Education launches Conflict Toolkit Cohort program
- Past Peace Innovators - where are they now?
- Waterloo's astounding engagement in Map the System 2021
- Welcoming Interim Coordinator, Emily Charron to the Centre
January 2021
- Impact beyond the workplace for students at the Centre
- Union Social Development Cooperative a local leader in housing equity
- (Putting) Bombs away
- Nuclear ban treaty entry into force Q&A
2020
December 2020
- Peacebuilders inspiring peacebuilders
- Centre for Peace Advancement shapes peace together
- Demine Robotics Achieves NGO status in Cambodia
- Centre says 'Farewell!' to PASS
- Engaging students in the work of peace advancement
November 2020
- Communitech spotlights Centre's PeaceTech endeavors
- Using Circle process to build community
- Engaging professors in systems thinking across disciplines
- Highlighting Grebel Gallery Artists
October 2020
- Centre participants gather to reflect on peacebuilding journeys
- Peace Incubator start-ups display progress and promise
- Kicking off Map the System 2021
- Highlighting Grebel Gallery Artists
September 2020
- Three new innovative ventures join Incubator
- Peace Innovators cohort begins peacebuilding journey
- Highlighting Grebel Gallery artists
- Happy anniversary to us!
- Whats new with PeaceTech?
- Virtual Opportunities Fair
August 2020
- Peace Week 2020: Shaping Peace Together
- Grebel team pursues solutions with Pandemic Challenge
- Kicking off Peace Innovators 2020-2021!
- Commitment to community for Fall 2020
- Celebrating 100 years of shared values with MCC
July 2020
- Finding connection through Stories in Transit
- Reflections on land and legacy
- Lunaria, where technology and diversity meet
- The impact of an educator
June 2020
- 2020-2021 Peace Innovators announced
- Returning co-op student selected for UNODA program
- How systems thinking impacts change on a global scale
- Panic, Anxiety + Stress Support during a pandemic
- Tamarack Institute launches youth engagement strategy
May 2020
- Pandemic Challenge
- Map the System team advances to global finals
- Peace Innovators wrap up 2019-2020, look ahead
- Toward trauma-informed communities
- Project Plougshares catalyzes conversation
April 2020
- Map the System awards student changemakers
- Catalyzing collaboration in the wake of COVID-19
- PeaceTech in the midst of a crisis
- Peacebuilders and the COVID-19 narrative
- Virtual Front Desk
- Not Traumatic Enough for a Shock Blanket
March 2020
- When social innovation meets COVID-19
- CPA community perseveres from a safe distance
- GeoMate taps into innovation ecosystem
- Peace Innovators applications open
- PeaceTech in progress
- Map the System updates
- The Cultural Life of Drones: KW Drone Dialogues virtual tour
February 2020
- Five newly appointed Research Fellows
- 114 teams registered for Map the System
- Grebel students primed for #peacetech
- Peace Innovators making their mark
- Students engaging in drone dialogues
January 2020
- Momentum builds for Map the System
- New incubator participant shines a spotlight on mental health
- Paul Born inducted into the Order of Canada
- Meet the new (and returning) team members
- Winter 2020 PeaceTech student leaders
2019
December 2019
- Nine highlights from 2019
- Fare thee well
- Choosing dialogue as a mode for policy creation
- #12Days4Good, systemically
- Supporting the next generation of Peace Innovators
November 2019
- Social innovation gets seat at Mitacs table
- UWaterloo team takes top prize at MEDAx
- Encourage critical doing, not just critical thinking
- A matter of life and death: KW Drone Dialogues
October 2019
- Grebel Gallery engagement takes off
- UWaterloo prioritizes responsible innovation
- Tamarack's superpower is community change
- Generations of refugee advocacy
- Outer space is for everybody
September 2019
- Reflections from our 5th anniversary celebration
- Another successful Peace Week in Waterloo Region!
- New names and faces in the Epp Peace Incubator
- PeaceTech Living-Learning Community goes live!
- Celebrating generosity and peace innovation
- Saying "See you around!" to Amy Zavitz
August 2019
- Join us to celebrate five years of advancing peace!
- Peace Innovators kick-off retreat
- Saying farewell to WPIRG
- SheLeads "jumps" at a new innovation ecosystem opportunity
- IVEP participants: where are they now?
- Welcoming a new face in the Centre for Peace Advancement
July 2019
- How will you celebrate Peace Week 2019?
- Saying farewell to Suyeon Kang
- Calling the next generation of changemakers
- One student's journey through the University of Waterloo's innovation ecosystem
June 2019
- Conrad Grebel team wins top prize at global competition
- Inspiring and equipping changemakers
- Is innovation inclusive?
- Bringing #PeaceTech to True North 2019
- The Ripple Effect Education deepens its roots as it spreads its branches
May 2019
- Celebrating New Fraktur in the Grebel Gallery
- Epp Peace Incubator in the Stanford Social Innovation Review
- $50,000 closer to a landmine free world
- Epp Peace Incubator alumni: where are they now?
- The X-Page: A Storytelling Workshop
April 2019
- Grebel students take on Oxford's Map the System challenge
- Be a peace innovator
- Goodbyes and next steps
- Interdisciplinary discussions about the implications of AI
- Making headlines: Centre for Peace Advancement participants are in the news!
March 2019
- Contribute to a future free of landmines
- Leading theory to action
- Mentoring innovation
- PeaceTech Living Learning Community: 2019-2020 Peer Leaders Announced
February 2019
- Reflections from the MCC Ottawa Student Seminar
- Talking about peace and justice with changemakers
- The Grebel Gallery is for everyone
- Finding conflict balance for startups: Conflict on the StartUp Team joins the Epp Peace Incubator
January 2019
- Launch of the newest Grebel Gallery exhibit
- Building robots with a humanitarian mission
- New faces in the Centre for Peace Advancement
- Following the path of peace: Suyeon's experience with the International Volunteer Exchange Program
- Equipping social entrepreneurs for success: Marlena Books’ journey through the University of Waterloo’s innovation ecosystem
2018
December 2018
- Keeping killer robots fictional
- MCC signs on as a Core Collaborator
- Goodbyes and new beginnings
- Putting wheels to social impact
- Our Year in Review
November 2018
- Growing Hope Farm featured at Peace Conference
- Cesar Jaramillo named one of "Ten Most Influential Hispanic Canadians"
- Fostering a Future of Social Innovators
- Project Ploughshares hosts PeaceTech event: "Make Cool Tech Stuff (Not Weapons)"
- Tamarack announces $2 million partnership agreement
- Saving land, limbs, and lives: A spotlight on Demine Robotics
October 2018
- The CPA hosts its annual Opportunities Fair
- Peacebuilding in the Big Apple
- Grebel announces Fall 2019 PeaceTech Live-Learn
- Celebrating the new Grebel Gallery exhibit
- Marlena Books wins AGE-WELL pitch competition
- Banning killer robots: A spotlight on Project Ploughshares
September 2018
- Building peace with a paintbrush
- Waterloo Region celebrates Peace Week!
- Farewells and new faces
- SheLeads joins the Epp Peace Incubator
August 2018
- Peace Innovators program kicks off
- Welcoming Suyeon Kang, CPA Host
- CPA's interest in PeaceTech shared by Project Ploughshares
- Waterloo region preparing for Peace Week 2018
- Tamarack bridges peacebuilding and social innovation
July 2018
- The CPA welcomes Amy Zavitz to the team for 2018-2019
- A New Era of Peace and a Peaceful Land opened in the Grebel Gallery in July
- Waterloo region preparing for Peace Week 2018
- School might be out but TREE is not slowing down!
June 2018
- Setsuko Thurlow inspires new generation of activists at UWaterloo
- Another take on innovation
- Militarization of cybersecurity
- Our CPA Host is finishing soon!
May 2018
- Why ‘Silicon Valley North’ must build peace
- CPA helps start-ups think and work politically
- Partnerships with Kindred Credit Union celebrated at two events
- A job vacancy: Spearhead the work of advancing peace!
- Two Epp Peace Incubator participants win The Spark Initiative award
April 2018
- CPA participants recognized in Global Impact Report
- Winter 2018 Peace Fund
- Social innovation meets sustainable development
- Bridging peace researchers and practitioners
- Peace Innovators Scholarship & Mentoring Program
- Refugee issues and killer robots
March 2018
- Engineering change
- Peace & Security in Northern Nigeria
- Drops for Crops wins third
- Peace is everybody's business
- WorldVuze Releases Next 150 Report
February 2018
- Harvesting the seeds
- Building a global perspective
- Meeting with mentors
- Peacebuilding in practice
- TREE takes lead on Peace Camp 2018
January 2018
- Where peace incubation meets investment
- Peacebuilding, papers, and profiles
- New Exhibit: "Beyond Essays"
- Peace Innovators' Forum: Off to a great start this winter
- WPIRG hosts anti-racism conference
2017
December 2017
- Gratitude and hope
- Project Ploughshares celebrates ICAN’s Nobel Peace Prize win
- Conflict on the startup team
- Meet the Peace Incubator Mentorship Circle
- Discovering Demine Robotics
November 2017
- Grebel students pitch at MEDA
- Peace Incubator Showcase
- Advancing an important conversation
- A deeper view of WorldVuze
- When good intentions are not enough
October 2017
- To Uptown Waterloo we go - the Incubator hits the road
- Project Ploughshares' advocacy efforts bear fruit
- Welcoming the new Grebel president
- Kindred making waves in the banking world
- Digging deeper into Growing Hope Farm
September 2017
- Exciting developments for incubator program
- EPOCH competes for $1 million Hult Prize
- Our team is growing!
- Katie Gingerich featured in Report on Giving
- Where are they now?