Projects in Peace

Middlebury is pleased to be a participating member of Davis Projects for Peace, a program that honors Kathryn Wasserman Davis, a philanthropist who is interested in finding new ways to advance world peace. Mrs. Davis chose to celebrate her centennial birthday four years ago by committing $1 million dollars to fund "100 Projects for Peace." Undergraduate students at more than 90 college campuses across the United States, including Middlebury students, are eligible to design and submit proposals that address the goal of improving the prospects for peace in the 21st century. The top submissions from the participating campuses, including at least one from Middlebury, will receive funding of $10,000 from Mrs. Davis with which to initiate projects anywhere in the world during the summer of that year.

An additional project is funded each year by President Ron Liebowitz. He chooses to put resources from the presidential discretionary fund towards a second project because he believes that "the values that this project represent touches on what are among the most important ones a liberal arts education can impart to its students—clear analytical thinking, excellent communications, self-confidence, creativity and initiative."

We invite passionate undergraduate students from all academic backgrounds to consider ways in which their unique experiences and perspectives might inspire a world peace project.

Current Projects

Middlebury students, Danny Loehr '13.5 and Bianca Giaever '12.5, have been travelling across the east and west coasts of the U.S. collecting stories from veterans who have served in wars to record their feelings and experiences from war. For more information, visit their website at http://warinvoice.org.