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  • Daniel Hirschel-Burns ’14 awarded PJSA thesis award

    Daniel Hirschel-Burns ’14 awarded PJSA thesis award

    Last week, the annual meeting of the Peace and Justice Studies Association was held at the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego. At the closing banquet, Daniel Hirschel Burns ’14 was awarded the undergraduate thesis award.  As Danny was unable to attend, Professor Smithey had the honor of accepting the…

  • Swarthmore alums win PJSA thesis awards two years in a row

    Elowyn Corby ’13 received the Undergraduate Thesis Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association this weekend. Sa’ed Atshan ’05 was there in Waterloo, Ontario to congratulate her. We also learned that last year’s Graduate Thesis Award went to a Swarthmore alum, Sara Koopman, who graduated in 1993. Prof. Joy Charlton was her adviser and…

  • Elowyn Corby ’13 Awarded Undergraduate Student Thesis Award by the Peace and Justice Studies Association

    We are thrilled to announce that Elowyn Corby, class of 2013, has been awarded the 2013 Undergraduate Student Thesis Award by the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) for her honors thesis titled “Training for Change: Moving from Theory to Practice in Adult Education for Empowerment.” The PJSA is a professional association for scholars, K-12…

  • Report on Tri-college trip to PJSA 2012

    Fifteen peace and conflict studies and environmental studies students and faculty from the Tri-Colleges (Swarthmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr) attended this year’s Peace and Justice Studies Association meetings at Tufts University October 4-6, 2012. [Tri-College Trip to the 2012 Peace and Justice Studies Meeting at Tufts University from Swarthmore Peace Studies on Vimeo.] This year’s…

  • PJSA 2011 videos available

    For all of you who were not able to attend the 2011 Peace and Justice Studies Association meetings in Memphis, TN, several videos are now available online.   Dolores Huerta, Keynote Speaker   David Bacon, Keynote Speaker Nipun Mehta and Pancho Ramos Stierle, Youth Keynote Speakers

  • Trip to the PJSA meetings in Massachusetts

    I hope everyone’s summer is off to a fine start and congratulations to all of our seniors who graduated yesterday. Time to start thinking about next year already!   The 2012 Peace and Justice Studies Association Conference will be held October 4-6 at Tufts University in Medford, MA, which is within driving distance of Philadelphia…

  • Follow the Peace and Justice Studies Association conference online

    The Peace and Justice Studies Association 2011 meeting is being held at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN, October 20-23.  The PJSA has partnered with the Gandhi King Youth Conference to design a joint conference this year. You can follow the conference online. Follow and contribute to the #pjsa-gkc hashtag on Twitter, or watch the…