UVU Peace and Justice Studies Program

Our Mission

We seek to understand reasons for and solutions to the complex problems of violence and injustice and to contribute to peaceful and just alternatives. Four core areas of interdisciplinary study guide our mission:
 

• Peace, War, & Conflict

• Justice

• Mediation, Negotiation, & Conflict Resolution

• Ideology & Theory

 

 

Why Choose a Peace and Justice Studies Minor or Integrated Studies Emphasis?

Our globe is in need of peacemakers and justice-doers. Solutions to problems of violence and injustice begin with knowledge, understanding, and analysis of the causes of violence and injustice.

What Careers will Peace and Justice Studies Prepare you for?

Matters of peace and justice are of perennial- and growing- concern. Earning a Peace and Justice Studies minor will place the student in a multi-faceted market of career opportunities including law, social work, meditation and conflict resolution, economic development, diplomacy, nonprofit management, education, government service and more.

Gain an understanding of effective means to achieve peace and justice at interpersonal, community, national and international levels. Earn a peace and justice studies minor or an integrated studies emphasis.

Our Invitation

We invite you to meet with Dr. Michael Minch, Director of Peace and Justice Studies. 801.863.7482 mminch@uvu.edu

 

 

 

 

 

The Summit Knowledge and Action Network    

http://www.summitglobaldatabase.org

 

Summit: The Sustainable Mountain Development and Conflict Transformation Global Knowledge and Action Network will be the world's largest and always developing database:  a collection of and connection to data relevant to sustainable development, conflict transformation, peacebuilding, reconciliation, and transitional justice.  Summit is designed to foster understanding of, and engagement with, the less developed world in all geographies and elevations.  The vast project is the location of asset transfer where researchers, NGOs, governments, multilateral organizations, and communities can access and use the world's largest collection of information relevant to sustainable development and conflict transformation to aid them in their efforts to foster human security.  Additionally, Summit is a collection of projects and programs that engage people directly, "on the ground and in the field," including Summit Research and Development Centers, Summit Labs, Summit Symposia, and Summit Tools.  

Database: http://www.summitglobaldatabase.org/user/login

 

 

 

 

 

The Womans Stats Project

http://womanstats.org

 

The WomanStats Project, housed at Brigham Young University and Texas A&M University, researches the linkage between the situation of women and the security and stability of the states in which they live.  The WomanStats Project Database is the most comprehensive compilation of information on the status of women in the world.  Containing over 170,000 data points and growing every day, we examine over 360 variables concerning women, including laws and practices that affect their lives, across 176 countries.  Variables relate to nine aspects of women’s situation and security: 1. Women’s Physical Security 2. Women’s Economic Security 3. Women’s Legal Security 4. Women’s Security in the Community 5. Women’s Security in the Family 6. Security for Maternity 7. Women’s Security Through Voice 8. Security Through Societal Investment in Women 9. Women’s Security in the State

Database: http://womanstats.org/data.html

Indices and Maps: http://womanstats.org/newmapspage.html

Research Papers: http://womanstats.org/research_and_papers.html