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.
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.
Undergraduate Graduate Major Minor Emphasis Certificate
Amanda Ford is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with extensive experience in mental health counseling and therapeutic practices. She is currently an adjunct professor in the Social Work Department at Utah State University (USU).
Landri LaJeunesse Writes About Her Semester Abroad with Heravi Peace Institute. Three months ago, I traveled to Vietnam with a group of Utah State University students and professors on a program to study conflict, history, and reconciliation firsthand. Fo...
In April, Utah State University alumni, students, faculty and staff representing the Heravi Peace Institute traveled to Uzbekistan to attend the Diplomacy of the Heart Conference, an international gathering dedicated to intercultural understanding and pea...
