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Peacemaking on BYU Campus
Peacemaking Beyond BYU
The Peacemaker Project
We envision a future in which the vast majority of students at BYU are eager to engage in productive disagreement based on mutual respect and dignified dialogue
BYU Campus Conversations
The BYU Campus Conversations Project provides opportunities to talk about divisive issues in a structured way, allowing individuals to hear diverse experiences and perspectives. Rather than debating or trying to convince others, participants take turns sharing and listening to build mutual understanding and connection.
Students for Understanding
Each week join BYU students as they develop empathy and understanding for diverse viewpoints through meaningful conversations.
BYU International Development Minor
We focus on peacemaking by teaching students how to work across cultures with respect and understanding. Through coursework, internships, and our student club we encourage humility, compassion, and care for others as guiding values in building peace.
Sorensen Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership
Our vision at the Sorensen Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership is to inspire and equip individuals to lead people as Jesus Christ does, and we do so by developing leaders with character and capability who edify families, congregations, communities, organizations, and society through events, workshops, coaching, and clubs.
BYU College Republicans
We showcase the key goals of College Republicans, which include striving to create opportunities for students to connect with government through the Republican Party.
Students for International Development
The Students for International Development club seeks to connect students with with the field of international development through club activities. By understanding the various fields in international development, students understand there are many ways to build up communities in a peaceful way.
English Department/University Writing
The mission of University Writing is to help students become Christlike communicators who contribute to flourishing families, organizations, and communities.
Political Affairs Society
PAS aims to connect students with a variety of political opportunities.
Ballard Center for Social Impact
We develop the faith and skills to increase human flourishing and decrease human suffering. We will be focusing on how here at BYU we can do good. Better. Together.
BYU College Democrats
To further political discourse on campus by providing an opportunity for like-minded individuals to come together, discuss, and promote the policy positions of the Democratic Party, in so much as they fulfill the enduring principles of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ.
BYU Law Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution
The CPCR is a mediation clinic for BYU Students and members of the larger community. We seek to help individuals and groups reach amicable conclusions to conflicts and improve their communication skills. Our services are free of charge and available to all!
Global Environmental Studies
A minor that strengthens a student's environmental expertise in an interdisciplinary framework. It is a bridge between environmental sciences and the humanities and social sciences.
BYU Office of Civic Engagement
Our office's mission is to help students be civically engaged now and in their future.
Marriott Inclusion and Belonging Society
The Marriott Inclusion and Belonging Society is focused on building a community of belonging within the Marriott School of Business and supporting BYU Marriott's core values: faith in Christ, integrity in action, respect for all, and excellence. We host regular events, activities, and initiatives that highlight individual differences while celebrating our shared identity as children of God.
Wheatley Institute
Strengthening society through research-supported work that fortifies the core institutions of family, religion, and constitutional government.
European Studies
Our mission with the European Studies internship program is to connect students with opportunities to collaborate with international organizations that focus on International collaboration and peacemaking as a top priority. Internships are located at the UN, NATO, IAEA, EU, and a variety of NGOs in the region.
Global Women's Studies
GWS focuses on helping students (of all genders) recognize their value and potential, encouraging leadership, critical thinking, creativity, personal development, cultural awareness, compassion, and desire to create a better world for all people.
Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy
CSED is a BYU Political Science Department research lab that focuses on research pertaining to American politics. We work together as students and faculty to research things like polarization, political behavior, and more. We are interested in creating knowledge that can help achieve peacemaking in American politics.
Students for Health Humanities
Students for Health Humanities raises awareness of health humanities as an emerging field, explores the embodied human experience of health and illness, offers pre-health students an outlet to explore interest in the humanities, and offers humanities students an opportunity to focus on health, healing, and illness.
Maxwell Institute
As a part of BYU, the Maxwell Institute builds bridges to other cultures and peoples by contributing to scholarship in many disciplines and establishing contacts with scholars at universities and centers of learning worldwide.
McKay School Belonging Leadership Team
The McKay Belonging Leadership Team strives to cultivate a supportive community for all McKay students by promoting Christlike leadership, organizing meaningful gatherings, and providing service opportunities. We will highlight how these opportunities create belonging and help promote peace, and also how leaders can be peacemakers and in so doing, increase the sense of belonging and unity within our community.
Office of Belonging
Our mission is to bring about a Zion like community of covenant belonging at BYU. We will be highlighting our Discrimination and Reconciliation process, and our gospel centered approach to conflict resolution.
Kennedy Center for International Studies
By supporting and implementing interdisciplinary international experiences on campus and abroad, the Kennedy Center raises global awareness and competency, and equips the community with international perspectives and tools to promote intellectual, physical, and spiritual well-being throughout the world.
BYU International Study Programs
Brigham Young University's Office of International Study Programs serves students by developing and implementing high-impact international academic experiences.
KROC Institute
The University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs, is one of the world's leading centers for the study of the causes of violent conflict and strategies for sustainable peace. Kroc Institute faculty and fellows conduct interdisciplinary research on a wide range of topics.
Braver Angels
Braver Angels is leading the nation’s largest cross-partisan, volunteer-led movement to bridge the partisan divide for the good of our democratic republic. Coming out of the election, we’re bringing together “We the People” to find a hopeful alternative to toxic politics. The American Hope campaign is equipping Americans across the political spectrum to work together and demand the same of politicians from both parties.
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