Peace Activities at Manchester
News Archive
September 24, 2007
New Online Journal Goes Live
Journal of Religion, Conflict, and Peace goes live at www.religionconflictpeace.org
December 21, 2006
Plowshares to revise curriculum guide
The Plowshares Collaborative will publish the 7th edition of Peace and World Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide. The guide is a valuable tool for colleges and universities in the US and abroad who are designing peace studies programs or updating courses.
September 22, 2005
In Solidarity: Engaging Empire
Kelli Yoder Next month, Goshen College will be hosting the third annual Plowshares Student & PJSA National Peace & Justice Conference, entitled “In Solidarity Engaging Empire.” This weekend event will be packed with 60 workshops, panel discussions, films, speakers, and strategy sessions. Participants will tackle topics such as dismantling systems of oppression, strategies for overturning empire, racism, white supremacy and white privilege, nonviolence and more. The event takes place October 6-9, leaving students plenty of time to become involved.
September 12, 2005
Mary Lind Appointed Associate Director of Indianapolis Peace House
Indianapolis, IN, September 8, 2005. Mary Lind of Portland, Oregon, was appointed Associate Director of Indianapolis Peace House. Her duties will begin October 1.
September 29, 2004
Howard Zinn: War corrupts everybody
Howard Zinn, writer and activist, author of "The People's History of the United States" spoke to the Manchester campus and community, and visitors from Plowshares Collaborative schools. This article was originally printed in The Bloomington Alternative and is reprinted with the author's permission.
September 21, 2004
Open house dedicates Indianapolis Peace House
Peace House opens its first semester with a gathering of the Collaborative's colleges and friends.
February 15, 2004
Former first lady accepts position promoting peace and justice studies
FORMER FIRST LADY TAKES POSITION AS PLOWSHARES DIRECTOR OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
January 7, 2004
Plowshares Names Associate Director for Indianapolis Peace House
Ruth Hill, a specialist in peace and justices studies, has been appointed associate director of the new Indianapolis Peace House, a component of the Plowshares project of Earlham, Goshen and Manchester colleges. Her appointment is effective Monday, January 12.
November 2, 2003
Three Plowshares Students in Conversation with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Kashish Shrestha (Nepal), Hussein Yussuf (Somalia), and Fadi Elsalameen can speak first hand of the effects of war on young people in their countries. These students from Manchester, Goshen, and Earlham Colleges respectively come from areas of the world where military and paramilitary conflicts involve children and youth.
August 1, 2003
Plowshares brings three experts in conflict resolution
A groundbreaking Indiana-based peace education project funded by a $13.8 million Lilly Endowment Inc. grant has selected its three keystone professors. They are a Dublin-based world authority on bigotry and reconciliation, an expert in Islamic issues and civilization and a former theologian who has lobbied Congress and the United Nations on peace issues.
January 7, 2003
N.Y. Times investigative journalist Doug Frantz comes home for Manchester College discussions
Award-winning New York Times journalist and eight-time author Doug Frantz is coming home Thursday.
