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
This summer, I had the opportunity to attend the Heravi Peace Institute’s study abroad program in Armenia. The trip focused on the theme, “Crossroads of Culture: Genocide and Reconciliation,” more specifically the Armenian Genocide and the lasting impacts...
I have been studying and teaching about war and peace for many decades, from my time as an undergraduate at Harvard University and a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, to my work as a professor at Cornell University, George Washington ...
As Aggies, we have a unique opportunity to model what it means to engage across differences with both humility and evidence. This isn't just a "soft skill" but a civic necessity.
