Administratively housed in the Center for Social Justice, the Program on Justice and Peace is concerned with practical, normative questions of how to realize peace and justice in the everyday world. The ultimate goal of Justice and Peace Studies in the university context, however phrased, is to produce practically useful scholarship on how to create a more just and peaceful world. Such scholarship requires empirical accounts of the causes of war, violence, and injustice; practical understandings of how to prevent and ameliorate harmful social conditions; and theoretical reflections on the definitions of justice. Each of these investigations can take place at all levels of social organization, from the individual to the family, from the small group to the nation, or at the level of the international community. For more information on PJP?s mission and curriculum, please visit PJP's home page.

Program Staff:

Henry Schwarz
Director of the Program on Justice and Peace, Associate Professor of English

Jane Kirchner
Community-Based Learning/Program on Justice and Peace Coordinator
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