Projects for Peace Alumni Award Winner Bienfait Mugenza Peace-building Conflict Transformation Collective Katherine Davis Foundation DRC Democratic Republic of Congo
Projects for Peace and the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation at Middlebury are pleased to announce the 2024 Projects for Peace Alumni Award recipient: Bienfait Hahozi Mugenza of the Democratic Republic of Congo and founder of the Congo Peace Academy in Goma.
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.
After completing a Project for Peace as an undergraduate at St. Olaf College, Duy Ha has continued his community engagement work in his native Vietnam.
Projects for Peace and Williams College alum Hamza Farrukh has continued the work he started in 2014 to help Pakistanis impacted by flooding access clean drinking water.
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.
Wesleyan University graduate and Projects for Peace alumnus Kennedy Odede has turned his undergraduate work into an internationally-awarded organization. Wesleyan recently profiled him and his wife and professional partner Jessica Posner.
Shabana Basij-Rasikh, who completed a Project for Peace in 2008, was awarded a Middlebury College Young Alumni Achievement Award at the 2021 Middlebury College Reunion.