Center for Peace & Conflict Studies
Center for Peace & Conflict Studies
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.
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.
MATEWAN (JOHN SAYLES)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2O | 11:30 AM-3:30 PM
Highland Campus Screening Room | Building 2000 Room 2.2450
ACC’s Center for Peace & Conflict Studies and department of Radio-Television-Film are bringing back our popular film series, “Cinema of Conflict & Transformation!” Join us to watch the Academy Award nominated filmmaker John Sayles’ “Matewan,” which dramatizes the West Virginia coal miners’ truggle to organize a union across racial and ethnic divisions while facing exploitation, intimidation, and violence. Through its unforgettable portrayal of solidarity and collective resistance, the film invites the viewer to explore how unequal power fuels conflict, how communities build coalitions, and how movements for justice can navigate the tension between nonviolence and self-defense.
Lunch will be served before the screening, and an interactive panel discussion will follow.
Learn more about the making of the film, the role of unions in American history, the power of nonviolent civil resistance, and engage in conversations with our panelists.
