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.
Art + Rebellion
Date/Time: Wed, Oct 21, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Gallery 2000: Highland Campus 2.2450
The Art Galleries (TAG) and the ACC Center for Peace & Conflict Studies will host a Restorative Listening Circle with the aim of creating a space where visitors can gather together to explore how peaceful rebellious actions in the classroom can empower individuals and groups to create their own identity.
Developed by Houston-based artist and educator, Darla Barolini, this exhibition features artworks and interactive activities to provide creative and generative spaces for gallery visitors to explore rebellion in the classroom through shared artistic expression.
Restorative Listening Circles offer an inclusive and collaborative space for participants to share openly and build trust with each other. Everyone will have a chance to speak without interruption and all voices are valued as equally important. Circles strengthen community relationships and provide the space to understand others’ perspectives.
Arrive 30 minutes early for refreshments, explore the gallery at your own pace, and connect with your peers.
Events are free & open to the public. No RSVP required.
