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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

MPACS Alum Launches Peace Resource Centre in Pakistan

After years of planning and several months of consultations, on January 12, 2020, Master of Peace and Conflict Studies (MPACS) alumnus, Rizwan Rizwan, helped launch the Shantinagar Peace Resource Center in Khanewal, Pakistan. The Center is a peacebuilding initiative that was a vision of Rizwan's when he enrolled in the MPACS program in 2017. Now his vision is finally a reality.

Friday, February 7, 2020

MPACS Blog

MPACS Blog

MPACS Blog is now live with its first blog post titled Reflections on social media, space and the practice of peace!

Please be encouraged to subscribe to this blog and share its postings with those who may be interested in stories and reflections from the MPACS program.

Map the System 2020
Thursday, October 31, 2019

MPACS Course Taking the Map the System Challenge

PACS 620 Thinking and Working Politically, a graduate-level, special topics course, offered in the upcoming Winter 2020 term, will have students take on the Map the System challenge. Taught by Paul Heidebrecht, director of the Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement (CPA), the course teaches the practice of peace-related advocacy in Canadian and multi-lateral contexts.

Eric Lepp
Friday, July 5, 2019

Innovative Scholar Appointed Visiting PACS Professor

Eric Lepp, a familiar face at Conrad Grebel University College, will be returning to the University of Waterloo for a two-year appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) at Grebel. Lepp recently completed a PhD at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester.

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

February Alumni Profile: Eric Boynton

Cst. Eric Boynton's headshot. He is wearing his uniform and smiling into the camera.Constable Eric Boynton, recipient of the Rotary Peace Scholarship and alumni of both the Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) and Master of Peace and Conflict Studies (MPACS) programs here at Conrad Grebel, is extremely thankful for the funding the scholarship provided him. During his time in the MPACS program, Eric worked full-time. His partner was also in school, and they had a newborn at home. The Rotary scholarship funding alleviated the financial pressure of continued education, giving him the financial security he needed to focus on and complete his schooling – without which he may have been an entirely different person now.