Our centre and participants
The Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement is a dynamic space on the University of Waterloo campus, home to peace-oriented innovators, and established organizations from the regions vibrant peace-building field. The goal of advancing peace is the lifeblood of the Centre for Peace Advancements unique working community. The Centre for Peace Advancement stands as a bridge between campus and community, academics and practice, and faith and justice.
Our ecosystem
The University of Waterloo has been consistently ranked as Canada's most innovative university by Maclean's university rankings. UWaterloo operates the world's largest co-operative education program, and now supports a wide array of student entrepreneurship opportunities. In addition to being the home of countless cutting-edge tech companies, our surrounding community has nurtured significant social innovations in areas such as restorative justice, poverty alleviation, and refugee resettlement.
Events
DRAFTS 6–Mapping Diasporic Identities
This exhibit brings together six artists whose works explore cultural heritage, migration, and the layered realities of life in the diaspora. Wen Li, Tazeen Qayyum, Paria Shahverdi, JJ Lee, and Faseeh Saleem. Together, their works invite viewers to re-imagine belonging, memory, and the ways stories are preserved, reshaped, and shared across borders. It will be open from Thursday, October 2 to Saturday, February 28.
News
Build Peace is coming to Waterloo!
The Build Peace annual conference brings together practitioners, activists, technologists, academics, and artists from more than 75 countries to explore emergent challenges to peace in the digital era, and the innovations in peacebuilding that seek to address them. The conference will be coming to Waterloo in 2026, the first time it has been held in Canada!
Systems Change Educators Unite!
How can educators from all over the world unite for the communal goal of positive social impact? The 2025 Social Impact Educator Gathering organized by Daniela Papi-Thorton was an event filled with a diverse group of educators seeking to make positive social change.
One for All and All for One: A Spotlight on Peace for All Canada
How can local communities come together for peace within and between newcomer communities? Peace for all Canada, one of the ventures in the Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement’s Grebel Peace Incubator, envisions a society of collective and prosperous communities, and displays these values through their thorough and continuous work.