This past weekend PACS alumni Yael Magid saw the success of a project she had, no doubt, worked on for months.
This year the University of Waterloo has joined the ranks of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, an annual country-wide ranking of organizations and business.
Betty Pries, Peace and Conflict Studies sessional instructor and instructor in the Conflict Management Certificate Program, was nominated at the annual K-W Oktoberfest Women of the Year event.
Sukhraaj ‘Raj’ Shergill is a 5th year Arts and Business Student at the University of Waterloo, and his very first Co-op position in 2014 allowed him to work with the Government of Canada in Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC).
Congratulations to Charity Nonkes who won second place in the bi-national finals of the C. Henry Smith Oratorical Competition.
Betty Pries is currently working on a PhD in the area of Conflict Transformation through the Free University of Amsterdam (VU). Betty Pries currently teaches PACS 333: Advanced Mediation Practice and is heavily involved with the Conflict Management Certificate program at Conrad Grebel University College.
The Peace and Conflict Studies department is pleased to be offering a new PACS 301 Special Topics course called "Engineering and Peace." This course has been built around the idea that Peace and Conflict Studies has an important contribution to make to the practice of engineering, and that engineers have an important role to play in advancing peace.