This year marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (WIPCS). This special anniversary year conference will be held at Marquette University.
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Students, academics, and activists are invited to the Marquette University campus for a one-day conference on the theme of A More Peaceful and Just Future is Possible: Charting Paths from Failed Institutions to Collective Liberation.
The conference will open with a panel on the evening of Thursday, April 3, 2025. All other sessions will take place on Friday, April 4, 2025.
The present moment is a call for action, marked by widespread failures among institutions we have been told will protect us: global climate initiatives have failed to produce meaningful commitments to slow the impacts of climate change; international courts have failed to protect human rights and uphold international law in Sudan, Ukraine, Palestine, the Congo, and beyond; and democratic states have failed to prevent the spread of inequality and authoritarianism at home and abroad. Now more than ever, peacemakers must mobilize.
This year’s conference seeks to explore avenues to act for peace and justice in the face of institutional failure—as activists, students, educators, researchers, artists, professionals, and global citizens. The framework of collective liberation—understanding that my freedom is bound up in yours, that nobody is free until everyone is free—provides peacemakers with a way forward to realizing the more just, equitable, and sustainable world that we know is possible.
There will be multiple ways to engage throughout the day: panels, plenaries, workshops, creative presentations, displays, discussion sessions, and community tours, concluding with our annual awards ceremony.
WIPCS is a unique and vital consortium of private and public colleges and universities in Wisconsin dedicated to enriching academic and public discourse on issues of peace and conflict. WIPCS and Marquette University are non-partisan and encourages debate and discussion from multiple perspectives, not only of foreign policy issues and global areas of conflict, but also of domestic inequalities, gender relations, and environmental sustainability.
Registration runs from March 1 to April 1, with on-site registration available April 4. To guarantee lunch at the conference, please select one of the "w/Lunch" ticket options by Wednesday, March 19. Register online.
The finalized schedule for Friday is now available.
Conference-rate rooms have been reserved at the nearby Ambassador Hotel. Please call (414) 345-5000 and ask for WIPCS rates.
For more information, please contact conference organizer, Jenna Harb, at jenna.harb@marquette.edu.
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