OUR MISSION

The Marquette University Center for Peacemaking empowers the university and the wider community to explore together the necessary skills to become informed, spiritually-centered, nonviolent peacemakers. Rooted in the Ignatian charism, the center fosters an awakening to the holistic relationship of scholarship, spirituality, nonviolent living, and the active struggle for peace and justice.

Center for Peacemaking Overview

We are proud to share an overview of the Center for Peacemaking with you that highlights our first three years and outlines our goals for the future. Download.

PeaceCasts

Watch presentations from our Distinguished Peacemakers on the 2010-11 events page.

Nonviolence Study Group

Come to the Nonviolence Study Group meetings the second and fourth Wednesday of the month from 7-8:30 p.m. Learn more about the meetings.

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News

2012 Summer Szymczak Peacemaking Fellows Named

 

The Szymczak family provides the Center for Peacemaking with a generous annual donation to fund student projects that put nonviolence into action.

The Center for Peacemaking congratulates the 2012 Szymczak Student Peacemaking Fellows (with project title):

  • Rachel Winegardner: Audio Stories of Reconciliation in Nigeria
  • Nadreen Bagoun and Alexandra Newell: Ka Joog Means Stay Away Project
  • Justine Shorter: Roses in Concrete
  • Claire Wild Crea: Peace in Las Delicias Project
  • Sarah Lauer, Anne O'Meara and Daryn Peres: Pine Ridge Restorative Justice Circles Project
  • Kelsey Simkins: Growing Peace

2012 Rynne Research Fellows Named

 

The Rynne Research Fellowship acknowledges that peacemaking covers a wide array of disciplines and topics ranging from interpersonal to international. Awards are intended to fund work for a two-month period during summer.

The Center for Peacemaking congratulates the 2012 Rynne Research Fellows:

  • Ms. Danielle Beverly: Professional in Residence, College of Communication
  • Dr. Theresa Tobin: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy

Faith, Resistance, and the Future, a
festschrift for Daniel Berrigan, S.J., and Father Simon's Contribution

 

Father Simon Harak, director of the Center for Peacemaking, contributed a chapter to “Faith, Resistance, and the Future,” a festschrift for Daniel Berrigan, S.J., an American Catholic priest, activist and poet, on his 90th birthday.

The book, edited by James L Marsh and Anna J. Brown, presents Daniel Berrigan’s contribution and challenge to Catholic social thought. His contribution lies in his consistent, comprehensive, theoretical and practical approach to issues of social justice and peace over the past fifty years. Simon’s chapter is titled The “Global War on Terror”: Who Wins? Who Loses?. The book was published by Fordham University Press.