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Welcome to the
Center for Peace
and Global Studies
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The
Center for Peace and Global Studies is a campus-wide
initiative to help students, faculty and the Le Moyne community
meet the challenges of living and working responsibly and
ethically in an ever-smaller world.
The program is built upon two new campus
initiatives, the Center for Peace and Global Studies and the
Peace and Global Studies Major.
The Center aids in the development of
the infrastructure of Peace and Global Studies at the College.
It coordinates and enhances the living and learning community
at Le Moyne and its efforts to promote the critical engagement
with issues of global peace and justice. The Center helps
create new internship and study abroad opportunities for Le
Moyne students and to provide resources for new cultural and
educational initiatives. It also supports faculty research
and course development on issues of Peace and Global Studies.
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 The Peace and Global Studies
Major
will help students understand the origins, challenges and
ethical dimensions of "Globalization." Students
in the major – and students taking global studies courses
as electives – will be asked to think about a host of issues
that transcend national boundaries--migration/immigration,
global climate change, refugees, terrorism, the movement of
capital and development. Majors will also explore how concepts
of justice and peace are linked in the world context to issues
of economics, labor relations, the environment, gender, family,
law, human rights, communications and culture.
The Peace
and Global Studies Major (PDF file)
Peace and Global Studies majors will
attain advanced foreign language skills, spend at least a
semester in a study-abroad program, and take both "Introduction
to Global Studies" and a capstone interdisciplinary seminar
entitled, "Ethics and Challenges of Globalization."
In addition, working with Peace and Global Studies Program
faculty, students will develop an individualized course of
study, taking several electives in a regional or thematic
area of specialization. Regional specializations include the
Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and East Asia; thematic
concentrations will include issues of global environmental
change, economic development and under-development, family
and gender, law and human rights, and conflict resolution.
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 Why Peace and Global Studies?
Le Moyne College’s commitment to issues
of global studies runs deep. Not only is this in keeping with
the Jesuit tradition of intellectual rigor in a world context
noted by Fr. General Hans-Kolvenbach, but is a reflection
of the diverse community of scholar-teachers that make-up
the Le Moyne faculty. The development of the center in tandem
with the major will work to create and sustain a viable and
exciting academic program that will increasingly play a part
in the collegiate experience of all of our students. Finally,
the program and the major will help prepare young people to
be productive and ethical global citizens in an ever-smaller
world.
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2008 Model UN in Boston
For almost thirty years the International Relations Club has been participating in Model United Nations programs. Le Moyne's group just returned from its 28th consecutive MUN program, this time at Harvard University. At that meeting 15 Le Moyne College students represented the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and the African country of Burkina Faso. They formulated resolutions and position papers dealing with topics as various as maritime security, global hedge funds and securities regulation, preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS in Latin America, migrant workers, Basque separatism, child soldiers, controlling climate change, free trade and the environment.
View photos from 2008 Model UN
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Some current and ongoing initiatives
supported or sponsored by the Center include:
- Faculty appointments in Latin American,
Asian and African Studies
- Interdisciplinary Faculty seminars—2003
topic, Feminist
Approaches to Peace, War and Global Studies
- Course development to "globalize"
the curriculum at the College
- A speakers’ series that has brought
to campus people like Mairead Corrigan Maguire, recipient
of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Nobel (Berrigan Lecture),
John Esposito, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding,
Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize Winning author and Chinese
Human Rights Activist, Dimon Liu.
- Enhancement of the Noreen Falcone
Library’s holdings on the Middle East and Islam
- Creating of new study abroad and
global service opportunities
- Establishing links with similar programs
at other Jesuit institution
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