Conflict Transformation
The Center for Community Engagement is proud to support the work of the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation in collaboration with other departments at Middlebury.
Read more about the $25 million grant Middlebury College received to advance conflict transformation.
Listen to an NPR interview with Middlebury College President Emerita Laurie L. Patton about conflict transformation.
Listen to CCE Director Kailee Brickner-McDonald and Director of the Conflict Transformation Collaborative Sarah Stroup talk about conflict transformation on SHECP Talks, a podcast by the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty.
The CCE is involved in several different projects related to and funded through the conflict transformation initiative:
Projects for Peace
Projects for Peace, a global program that partners with 90+ institutions to identify and support peacebuilders and changemakers, is headquartered with the Middlebury Center for Community Engagement. Projects for Peace administers over 100 grants of $10,000 to students each year and a $50,000 alumni award.
Read more about the Projects for Peace headquarters.
Privilege & Poverty Summer Internships
Our Privilege & Poverty summer internships allow students to make a difference while working in law, immigration, health, food and nutrition, housing and more. The P&P Summer Internship program fulfills the experiential learning component of the P&P Academic Cluster curriculum.
Learn more about P&P internships.
History in Translation
Each summer, students and partners gather in shared space and time to 1) further explore and study of our history and its lived impacts; 2) identify and consider how and why our assumptions and perspectives on history conflict (and do not); and 3) to understand how the transformational potential of these historical explorations can be applied to the challenges and opportunities of our present - and our work and pursuit of social justice.
The summer 2025 program focused on language access in crisis situations. It was designed for undergraduates interested in translation, interpretation, and language justice. Focus areas included language access and language justice within immigration, health, and educational systems and settings; responsibilities and strategies of interpreters and translators in high stakes and crisis situations; and learning from (and supporting) those engaged in language access work, advocacy, and research. This immersive, experiential program was developed in collaboration with Respond Crisis Translation.
Read more about History in Translation immersive trips.
Cross Cultural Community Engagement Grants
Students engaging in intercultural learning for the public good are encouraged to apply for grants to support their experiences (over J-Term and summer).
See the CCCE website for details on the application process.
Middlebury Alternative Break Program
Middlebury Alternative Break Trips (MAlt) run during February Break each year, with participant applications open in early fall. The goal of MAlt is to engage Middlebury students with communities across the nation and the globe in order to share an experience, provide service where service is needed, and learn about the systems that shape community realities around the world.
Learn more about MAlt trips and the application process.
Service Translation
Service Translation is an international collaboration with students from Middlebury and International Christian University (Mitaka, Japan) team-translating oral histories and other historical documents related to the experiences of Japanese Americans impacted by Executive Order 9066.
Read about Service Translation efforts.
Contact Us
To learn more about the programs supporting the advancement of conflict transformation, please contact us at communityengagement@middlebury.edu.