Category: Students & Alums
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Peace and Conflict Studies Student Nora Sweeney ’24 shares study abroad experience in Northern Ireland
Nora Sweeney ’24 is a Peace and Conflict Honors Major student at Swarthmore College, who studied abroad in Northern Ireland during the fall semester of 2022. The Peace and Conflict Studies department has invited Nora to an interview to share her experience studying abroad and provide suggestions to future study abroad students. Question: Before we…
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Interview With PJSA 2020 Best Undergrad Thesis Recipient Vanessa Meng ’20
By Billy Wu ’26 Vanessa Meng ’20, a Peace and Conflict Studies and Philosophy double major and Swarthmore alumni, recently received the PJSA 2020 Best Undergrad Thesis award. Her thesis focused on China’s own narrative of China-Africa relations and tied in the diverse cultural background she shares in her identity. The Peace and Conflict Studies…
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Billy Wu Becomes Student Departmental Assistant for Peace and Conflict Studies
Billy Wu ’26 is an international freshman who recently joined the Swarthmore community this fall semester. He is a prospective Sociology major and a Peace & Conflict Studies and/or Film & Media Studies minor. Billy will join the Peace & Conflict Studies Department as a student departmental assistant for Fall Semester 2022 and Spring Semester…
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Peace and Conflict Studies Student Paris Shan ’23 Shares Internship Experience With Advocates For Human Rights
Paris Shan ’23 is a Peace and Conflict Studies minor student at Swarthmore College. This summer, she was actively engaged with the Advocates for Human Rights in an internship. She describes her internship experience with ties to interviews, research, data analysis, and importantly the education she received at Swarthmore and in Peace & Conflict Studies.…
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LIVE panel with Ruth McDonough ’08, Sultana Khaya, and co. engaged in unarmed civilian protection and nonviolent struggle in Western Sahara
Ruth McDonough ’08 (Religion; Peace and Conflict Studies; Linguistics) is currently engaged in unarmed civilian protection in the home of the Khaya sisters, Saharawi nonviolent activists calling for an independent Western Sahara, who have been under de facto house arrest for more than 500 days.. Learn more. On Wednesday April 20, we are hosting a…
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30th Anniversary Event: Preparing for Peace, Building Social Justice
Join us online on Tuesday February 22 at 4:15 pm EST to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Peace & Conflict Studies program at Swarthmore College! The virtual event will reflect on the past three decades of peace and conflict studies at Swarthmore and the ways that program alumni have integrated peace and conflict studies to their…
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Peace Major Martin Tomlinson Reflects on the Climate Crisis in Student-lEd Workshop Series
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2021 issue of the Swarthmore College Bulletin. Growing up in rural Kansas, Martin Tomlinson ’23 experienced the effects of the climate crisis firsthand. “I saw my neighbors’ crops failing and the water in the creek behind my house beginning to dry out,” says Tomlinson, a double major in Peace…
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Walking the Walk on Climate Change
Tim Hirschel-Burns ’17 (@TimH_B on Twitter; now at Yale Law School) anticipates global climate summit in Glasgow in a piece published on the Fellow Travelers blog: This November, nations will come together for the international climate summit in Glasgow. The summit is the most significant since the 2015 conference that produced the Paris Agreement, and…
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My Swat Story: Luke Neureiter ’22
[This piece was published as part of the College’s Meet Swarthmore initiative on April 26th, 2021] He Never Saw Himself at Swarthmore “My dad went to Swarthmore and was part of the class of ’87. As I like to say on my admissions tours, for 18 of my 20 years, I did not want to…