Peace & Global Studies

Upcoming Events

A Conversation with George McGovern -

Mon., Sept. 28, 7 p.m.
Grewen Auditorium
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International Film Premiere: Rebuilding Hope -

A documentary outlining a "Lost Boy's" return home to Sudan after fleeing a brutal civil war in the late 1980's.
The film features Le Moyne graduate Gabriel Bol Deng '08
Syracuse Premiere
Sat. October 24
Palace Theatre

21st Annual Peace Studies Conference -

Program Theme: Youth, Drugs, Violence, and Gangs: Global, national and local challenges
Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. Learn More

Past Events Sponsored by the Center

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Center for Peace and Global Studies

The Center for Peace and Global Studies is a campus-wide initiative to help students, faculty and the Le Moyne community meet the challenges of living and working responsibly and ethically in an ever-smaller world.

The program is built upon two new campus initiatives, the Center for Peace and Global Studies and the Peace and Global Studies Major.

The Center aids in the development of the infrastructure of Peace and Global Studies at the College. It coordinates and enhances the living and learning community at Le Moyne and its efforts to promote the critical engagement with issues of global peace and justice. The Center helps create new internship and study abroad opportunities for Le Moyne students and to provide resources for new cultural and educational initiatives. It also supports faculty research and course development on issues of Peace and Global Studies.

The Peace and Global Studies Major will help students understand the origins, challenges and ethical dimensions of "Globalization." Students in the major – and students taking global studies courses as electives – will be asked to think about a host of issues that transcend national boundaries--migration/immigration, global climate change, refugees, terrorism, the movement of capital and development. Majors will also explore how concepts of justice and peace are linked in the world context to issues of economics, labor relations, the environment, gender, family, law, human rights, communications and culture.

Some current and ongoing initiatives supported or sponsored by the Center include:

Faculty appointments in Latin American, Asian and African Studies
Interdisciplinary Faculty seminars—2003 topic, Feminist Approaches to Peace, War and Global Studies
Course development to "globalize" the curriculum at the College
A speakers’ series that has brought to campus people like Mairead Corrigan Maguire, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Nobel (Berrigan Lecture), John Esposito, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize Winning author and Chinese Human Rights Activist, Dimon Liu.
Enhancement of the Noreen Falcone Library’s holdings on the Middle East and Islam
Creating of new study abroad and global service opportunities
Establishing links with similar programs at other Jesuit institution

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