Heravi Peace Institute

The Heravi Peace Institute aims to be a transformative catalyst for peace.

The Heravi Peace Institute empowers USU students, faculty, and staff by cultivating the necessary character, knowledge, and skills to constructively transform conflict and build peace. Leveraging research, teaching, praxis, and community engagement, we develop and equip peacebuilders for today's world.

Peacebuilding starts with you

The world needs more people committed to creating peace, and we aim to empower students with the temperamentand tools needed to bring about social change. The Heravi Peace Institute at Utah State University prepares students to enter the workforce already adept at cultural peacebuilding, conflict management, nonprofit work, empowered to create intentional relationships and ready to enact change in their communities.

Housed in the College of Arts & Sciences, HPI is an academic program that supports student internships and other experiential learning, faculty and student research activities, and ongoing programming and public outreach in the field of peacebuilding through the proactive implementation of skills in a variety of settings and institutions to practice nonviolent collaboration and transformative conflict at the personal, interpersonal, family, community, intergroup, national, and international levels.

Institute Highlights

An Evening to Remember

On March 19th the Heravi Peace Institute hosted its 2nd Annual Banquet to honor our latest certificate graduates, scholarship recipients, institutional achievements, and partnerships that have shaped the institute’s mission over the past year. Held at the...

Student Spotlight - Katelyn Parker

Katlyn is a senior at USU, studying International Studies with a minor in Chinese. She is also completing the Global Peacebuilding Certificate and the Leadership and Diplomacy Certificate through the Heravi Peace Institute (HPI). Katelyn was named the Col...