Human Rights & Justice

Joseph Kaifala, wearing a short-sleeve white button-down shirt and khaki pants, stands and speaks at a wooden podium topped by a laptop.

As part of Middlebury College’s recent “Summer Convening on Experiential Learning and Conflict Transformation,” inaugural Projects for Peace Alumni Award winner Joseph Kaifala visited campus.

Photo collage of Rolando Kattan Rubi on the right, wearing a grey suit with a red tie, and Lucy Calcott on the left, wearing a yellow sundress, both smiling for portraits.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Africa, Education, Health & Well-being, Human Rights & Justice, Youth

Yale University Global Affairs Students Work Toward Peace

by Yale Jackson

Lucy Calcott and Rolando Kattan Rubi will spend this summer in South Africa and Honduras, respectively, implementing projects that address critical societal issues.

Valeska Kohan and Amanda de Souza, both wearing black shirts, pose smiling for the camera with their arms around each other in front of a white wall and multi-hue blue painting.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Education, Human Rights & Justice, Social Cohesion

Macalester Students Seek to Empower Teachers in Brazil

by Macalester College

Macalester College students Valeska Kohan and Amanda de Souza hope to use their Projects for Peace grant to train Brazilian teachers in anti-racist classroom approaches.

Joseph Kaifala, wearing a cream and blue colored shirt, poses sitting at a desk with his hand on a book, flanked by a multi-colored wall.

Sustained Impact, Alumni, Partner Institutions, Middlebury, Africa, Education, Human Rights & Justice, Youth

Projects for Peace Presents First Alumni Award

Projects for Peace and the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation at Middlebury have announced the inaugural recipient of the Projects for Peace Alumni Award: human rights and education activist Joseph Kaifala.

On the left, Ngan Bui, wearing a pink and white blouse and black glasses, poses in front of an outdoor background while on the right Elspeth Collard, wearing a blue shirt and brown glasses, poses in front of a brick hallway.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Asia, Africa, Environment, Health & Well-being, Human Rights & Justice

University of Richmond Students Address Human-Wildlife Interaction and Human Trafficking

by University of Richmond

Two University of Richmond seniors—Ngan Bui and Elspeth Collard—have Projects for Peace grants. They will focus on human trafficking and human-wildlife interaction.

A group of teenagers huddle together and smile for the camera.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Human Rights & Justice, Social Cohesion, Youth

Building an Empowering Space for Young Asian American Women

by Ginny Sharkey

Denison University grantee Joan Do-Truong used her Projects for Peace grant to create programs to build a community for young Asian American women where they could share their experiences and gain the knowledge to create lasting change in their communities.

A group of young people, all wearing the same white t-shirt with a green and blue emblem, pose for a silly group photo in front of a log cabin.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Civic Engagement, Environment, Health & Well-being, Human Rights & Justice, Youth

Bowdoin Grantees Prove the Power of Taking Action

by Rebecca Goldfine

The two most recent Bowdoin recipients of Projects for Peace grants made progress this summer on the issues they’re committed to solving: addressing environmental threats in Serbia and ending the practice of female genital mutilation.

Emily Zhang, wearing a navy blazer and white blouse, smiles for the camera in front of a series of marble columns opening up to the waterfront.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Americas, Arts, Health & Well-being, Human Rights & Justice, Youth

Building Bonds Through Books

by Nick Erickson

Led by George Washington alumna Emily Zhang, a team is using a Projects for Peace grant to fight stigmas of children with incarcerated parents through literature.

Two hands holds a red pendant shaped like a pomegranate with the word Rerooted superimposed in white text.

Funded Projects, Sustained Impact, Alumni, Partner Institutions, Americas, Europe, Multi-national, Documentation & Preservation, Human Rights & Justice

Seeking Justice for the Armenian Genocide, One Story at a Time

by Devin McGrath-Conwell

Launched as a Project for Peace in 2017, the Rerooted Archive celebrates five years of documenting stories from Armenians displaced by conflict. Read on for the story of how an idea grew into a sustained, global, initiative.

Portraits pf Joy Nampaso on the left and Stacy Mwangi on the right separated by a blue image of a clocktower above the words "Whitman College," also in blue.

Funded Projects, Partner Institutions, Africa, Education, Health & Well-being, Human Rights & Justice, Youth

Whitman College Celebrates Projects for Peace Grantees

by Bertine Lakjohn

Whitman College’s Joy Nampaso and Stacy Mwangi are both completing Projects for Peace in Kenya this summer. Read more about them and their work!