Newsletter archives

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

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

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

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?