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 peacebuilding field. The common goal of advancing peace collaboratively and creatively 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
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada is a leading hub for innovation on a national and global scale. 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
Resurfacing: Mennonite Floor Patterns (exhibit open until 20 February)
Drop by the Grebel Gallery between now and February to see artist Margruite Krahn's exhibit that restores and re-imagines hand painted Mennonite house barn floor patterns from the turn of the 20th century. Her work engages with the contrast of home as a sanctuary and a place that holds conflict, alongside changing traditions and practices of beauty.
Traditional Pattern Making Workshop
Join visiting artist Margruite Kranh for a print making workshop at historic Brubacher House. Create your own design using traditional methods and colors on pre-primed paper or canvas placemats, or a canvas floor cloth.
Daughters, mothers, grandmothers and other sexual outlaws
This pop up exhibit created by Inter Pares and hosted by the SHORE Centre provides a glimpse into the lives and struggles of feminist activists across El Salvador, rural landless communities in Bangladesh, and in informal settlements of Manila in the Philippines, as they advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights.
News
Equipping communities to use research for change
The Centre for Community Based Research (CCBR), one of the Core Collaborators situated within the Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement, is pleased to launch a new Certificate Program in Community-based Research in partnership with Conrad Grebel University College and the University of Waterloo. CCBR is a non-profit organization committed to strengthening communities through research and education. The new Certificate Program in Community-Based Research is a leading resource for learning how to use research to drive impactful change.
Kicking off change
Map the System is back! The Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement kicked off Map the System 2025 by hosting a successful launch event introducing participants to this year’s competition.
That's a wrap on 2024!
The Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement community experienced an impactful year as we entered our second decade of operation. Here are a few highlights and accomplishments from some of our Core Collaborators and Grebel Incubator start-ups.