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The Conflict Management Certificate Program at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies believes that each person can learn how to deal with conflict in a healthy, effective manner. Stress, anger and broken relationships need not result. Instead, conflict can provide an opportunity to explore new ideas and work more competently and productively with others.

Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) students and Master of Peace and Conflict Studies (MPACS) students have the opportunity to explore and apply the theories that they learn in the classroom through a variety of programs that take them out of the classroom.

The PACS department has over $10,000 in scholarship money for students registered in PACS each year. Scholarship applications for Fall 2019 awards are due Friday, February 25 at 9:00am.

Peace and Conflict Studies is an interdisciplinary academic program offered collaboratively by Conrad Grebel University College (Grebel) and the University of Waterloo which aims to explore why conflict and violence occur, and to understand how conflict can be transformed by "collaborative decision-making" to accomplish constructive ends.

Volunteers Needed for PACS Open House
The Peace and Conflict Studies Department is looking for PACS students to volunteer at the March Break Open House! Your role as a volunteer will involve talking with prospective students and their families and the PACS program (and how awesome it is). Click "Register" below to sign-up.

I am Rohingya: A Genocide in Four Acts is a documentary that follows fourteen Rohingya youth in their efforts to use the stage to depict their families' torment as they escaped from Burma. The screening of this film will be followed by a question and answer session with director and Laurier Alumnus, Yusuf Zine, as well as with cast members of the film.

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Featured at Conrad Grebel:

• Make A Difference Market
• Gendered Conflicts & The Pursuit of Peace

Events:

• Bridge: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People
• "Canadian Theatre Made for Black Women" talk