10th Annual Spring Symposium
10th Annual Spring Symposium
10th Annual Spring Symposium
10th Annual Spring Symposium
Our Mission (Draft): The Center for Peace & Conflict Studies at ACC is dedicated to advancing the understanding of peace, justice, and conflict within both the college and Austin communities. The Center’s programming offers intra- and interpersonal skill building and creates opportunities to have conversations across conflict lines that impact our community, empowering individuals to incorporate a peace and conflict studies lens in their personal, academic, and professional lives.
Our Vision (Draft): The Center for Peace & Conflict Studies will empower the College and local community to prevent, deescalate, and transform conflicts and to build more empathetic and peaceful intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intergroup relationships using a peace and conflict studies lens.
The Center for Peace & Conflict Studies wants to know more about your religious, spiritual, and secular identity and how it shapes your experience at ACC!
Join us for a 1-hour focus group and have your thoughts heard so we can better promote a culture of belonging and connection on campus. All student participants will receive a $30 Amazon gift card.
Focus Group Dates:
Monday, March 31, 12:15 – 1:15 pm @ Zoom
Thursday, April 3, 9:15 – 10:15 am @ Zoom
Thursday, April 10, 5:30 – 6:30 pm @ Cypress Creek
What We Do
Through avenues of academic study, professional development training, community events, service learning, and travel abroad opportunities, the Peace & Conflict Center maintains its commitment to establishing frameworks for nonviolent conflict transformation at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, local, national, and international levels.
Center Events
The Center for Peace & Conflict Studies provides opportunities for active engagement in the community through ongoing events, service learning, and international programs. The Center features lectures, panel discussions, a film series, and cultural events that allow students, faculty and staff, and the broader Austin community the opportunity to engage with topics pertaining to social justice, conflict, and sustainable peace.
Join a Restorative Listening Circle
March 27, 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Gallery 4000 (HLC 4.2105) & Military Families Center
April 17, 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Gallery 4000 (HLC 4.2105) & Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Center
The Art Galleries and the ACC Center for Peace & Conflict Studies will host two Restorative Listening Circles with the aim of creating a space where visitors can start a conversation about the issue of gun violence in our society. These events will be one hour long and consist of two-parts. We will start at 5:00pm with an in-gallery discussion in Gallery 4000 about an artwork in the exhibition. Then, we will all transition to a nearby space for a discussion circle.
Events are free & open to the public. No RSVP is required.
