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.
Shared Threads - Community, Belonging, and Storytelling
Drawing inspiration from Celtic knotwork—an ancient visual language of continuity, connection, and interdependence—the works reflect how individual lives are bound together into something stronger and more enduring: community. 'Shared Threads' will be open from Sunday, March 1 to Monday, March 30.
Looking at the Sky
Nina Bailey-Dick’s powerful batiks and collages are a feminist declaration of love for the land, sky, and self; an invitation to embrace both the beautiful and the broken parts of ourselves. This exhibit is a call to action to speak up, take up space, make art, and share vulnerability – skills needed for personal and collective action and healing. 'Looking at the Sky' will be open from Saturday, April 4 to Wednesday, April 29.
News
Eight years of Map the System: Insights from Previous Participants
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to compete in Map the System? Four previous participants share their experience and the impact the competition has had on them.
Inside Velocity’s Innovation Open House
Ever wonder where to take your ideas on campus? The Innovation Open House showed that Waterloo has tons of places—from startup hubs to social‑impact groups to creative maker spaces—where students can get support, meet people, and turn ideas into something real.
Project Ploughshares welcomes their new Director
Grebel's Paul Heidebrecht begins a new journey as he takes on a role at Project Ploughshares.