EXPLORATIONS
Center for Peacemaking opens
How can people work for peace? At the new Marquette University Center for Peacemaking, students, faculty, staff and community members will seek answers to that question. Study will focus on nonviolence, especially in the popular movements of the past 25 years that effectively challenged dictatorial governments. For instance, why did mass nonviolent movements succeed in the Philippines but not in Tiananmen Square?
“A university is a great place to study nonviolence. At a Jesuit university we are particularly called to analyze, do the research, think and think well — to bring every resource to bear in the study of peacemaking,” says Rev. G. Simon Harak, S.J., director of the center.
So far a retreat, a research forum and a workshop for students participating in service learning classes are on the calendar. The center plans to present a faculty research award and fund a summer internship for undergraduates.
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