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While exploring ideas of peace, war, nonviolence, conflict resolution, mediation, human rights, development, and social justice, Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) students often wonder where their degree will lead after graduation. While many graduates gravitate toward careers in law, international development, governmental policy, and teaching, more and more students are embracing an entrepreneurial spirit and are creating their own jobs in the peace industry.

WATERLOO -- Two hundred peacebuilding academics and practitioners will meet at Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo for a four-day event, June 9-12, 2016.

WATERLOO – The Ripple Effect Education (TREE) is a peace education initiative based out of the Frank and Helen Epp Peace Incubator in the MSCU Centre for Peace Advancement. Starting in the classroom, TREE aims to create peace-literate citizens with demonstrable conflict resolution skills and awareness of justice issues locally and globally. TREE programming will empower youth to think critically and evoke change in their communities. They will hone soft skills like communication, teamwork, and       empathy. 

The Board of Governors of Conrad Grebel University College is pleased to announce that former Grebel dean, Jim Pankratz, has accepted the invitation to serve as Interim President. This follows the announcement that Susan Schultz Huxman has accepted a call to serve at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

The Conrad Grebel University College Board of Governors, at its April 12 meeting, enthusiastically approved the recommendation of the Search Committee to hire Dr. Carol Penner as Assistant Professor of Practical Theology.

At its April 12 meeting, the Board of Governors at Conrad Grebel University College learned that their president, Susan Schultz Huxman, has accepted the call to become the candidate of choice for president at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

WATERLOO, ON – The Conrad Grebel University College community is looking forward to hosting a diverse group of academics, practitioners, artists, and church workers at the Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival, June 9-12, 2016.

The Grand Philharmonic Choir and Conrad Grebel University College are honoured to welcome Sir James MacMillan, one of the world’s foremost living composers, as a visiting scholar and conductor. MacMillan’s music can be heard around the globe and he regularly conducts the world’s leading orchestras and choruses.

For the Colombian coastal community of Mampuján, displaced from their land by a paramilitary group in 2000, quilting has become a way of recovering their past in order to weave a better future.