The Center forPeace and Global Citizenship
The Center forPeace and Global Citizenship
- 610-896-1205
- Founders Hall 015
The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship (CPGC) offers student summer internships and academic year fellowships, community-engaged courses, on-campus speakers and professional development, and financial support for student and faculty community-engaged learning. The CPGC partners with the full breadth of academic majors and community organizations to advance peace, justice, inclusion, and sustainability as components of robust and critical global citizenship. CPGC activities take place in our local region, on campus, and all around the world.
For service and advocacy opportunities in Ardmore, as well as student volunteer clubs and community-based work study, visit the Marilou Allen Office of Service and Community Collaboration.
Fellowships
A CPGC Fellowship is a funded opportunity for Bi-Co students to advance social justice learning and action.
Community-Engaged Learning
Learn about our exciting new funding opportunity designed to advance community-engaged learning.
Make a Gift
Ensure Fords continue to have opportunities to leverage their talents toward advancing peace, justice, inclusion, and sustainability off-campus.
As the February 11 deadline for CPGC 2024 Summer Fellowship Approaches, learn more about a student-faculty visit to one of the Centers' longest standing partnerships in Oaxaca, Mexico.
A new program developed by Gabriel Franklin ’24 puts basketballs and Haverford’s educational resources in the hands of Ardmore’s young people.
Samuels, who is now pursuing her PhD at University of California Irvine, focuses her research on Black-led food justice and sovereignty.
In the lead up to the 28th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, members of the Haverford community heard from Nora Pillard Reynolds, Ben Ludtke and Joe Batik, systems thinkers working to advance water equity and sustainability around the world.
Learn about methodologies, opportunities, and challenges in moving from high conflict to peaceful coexistence with Vice President for Strategy for Search for Common Ground, Michael Shipler '99, during a campus presentation and discussion on Friday, December 15 from 1:00 - 2:15 in Stokes Auditorium.
College educators explored bests practices for engaging students in community projects that advance aspects of justice and inclusivity, during a two-day November symposium at Haverford. Students participating in projects provide help for grassroots organizations, while gaining hand-on experience in helping to address real-world problems.
One student spoke describing her work last summer in Nepalese villages, where sheaddressed stigmas surrounding menstruation. Another described efforts to unite Philadelphia’s Caribbean and Asian communities to address drug use. Others described a journalist’s work in Ghana, Democracy building in mid-Atlantic states, and anti-incarceration efforts in Philadelphia. The presenters, each a winner of a 2023 Center For Peace and Global Citizenship Summer Fellowship, described their summer field work at a late October poster session at Lutnick Library.
From Caracas to Chicago- the global refugee crisis is at our doorsteps. Hear how two Haverford students spent ten weeks this summer in Mexico City working for a local aid organization providing assistance to the displaced, through a paid CPGC fellowship.
Students, faculty, and members of the Ardmore community attended a panel hosted by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship to learn about the untold history of the Christiana Resistance.
Community Engagement Organizations
Discover volunteer opportunities, internships, collaborative projects, and more!
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Events
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
Thursday, March 28th, 2024
Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Pages
Global Citizen Weekly
News, updates, and general information about the CPGC.