Plowshares Collaborative News & Events
News Archive
February 25, 2008
Former QUNO head Jack Patterson to Speak
Jack Patterson, former head of the Quaker United Nations Office in New York, will provide a discussion opportunity to consider the role of the international community and its response to protect victims of atrocities on at noon on Monday, February 25th in Landrum Bolling Center #208.
October 20, 2007
Priscilla Hayner wins Outstanding Alumni Award
Priscilla Hayner '85 is co-founder of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), an organization that assists countries pursuing accountability for past mass atrocity or human rights abuse. Hayner is the author of Unspeakable Truths, a study of "truth commissions" in more than 20 countries worldwide.
October 18, 2007
Chemical Weapons Dumping Presentation
Nadine Abdallah, Class of 2008, presents on chemical weapons dumping
September 27, 2007
Lee H. Hamilton discusses "War on Terror"
One of America's leading voices on foreign policy and terrorism is coming to Earlham College as a part of its Artist and Lecture Series. Lee H. Hamilton, the co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group and the vice-chairman of the 9/11 Commission, presents "War on Terrorism," on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007, at 7:00 p.m. in Goddard Auditorium.
September 25, 2007
Healing and Restoring Cambodia through the Arts
International human rights leader Arn Chorn-Pond will share the story about how music saved his life and how it led him to help others recover from the trauma of war during Earlham College's first Artist and Lecture Series event of the semester.
September 24, 2007
New Online Journal Goes Live
Journal of Religion, Conflict, and Peace goes live at www.religionconflictpeace.org
April 30, 2007
Annotated Bibliographies posted to Resources Tab
Announcement of a new Plowshares resource for faculty and students on the web site.
December 21, 2006
Plowshares to revise curriculum guide
The Plowshares Collaborative will publish the 7th edition of Peace and World Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide. The guide is a valuable tool for colleges and universities in the US and abroad who are designing peace studies programs or updating courses.
December 18, 2006
Indianapolis Peace House continues to build its leadership team
Laura J. Harms of Arlington, Va., will join Indianapolis Peace House as associate director on Jan. 8. Harms has a decade of experience in peace-centered community building, said Manchester College President Jo Young Switzer, lead president of the Plowshares consortium of Earlham, Goshen and Manchester colleges that operates Peace House.
November 13, 2006
Community conflict-resolution leader to lead Indianapolis Peace House
Kim Overdyck of the University of Notre Dame is the choice of the Plowshares consortium of Indiana’s three historic peace colleges – Manchester, Earlham and Goshen colleges, said board Chair Jo Young Switzer, president of Manchester College. She will take her office in the historic “Old Centrum” in downtown Indianapolis on Jan. 2.
October 18, 2006
Plowshares to release new academic journal
The Plowshares Peace Studies collaborative will issue an open-access, online journal devoted to the discussion of religion as both a source of conflict in the world and a source of peace.
August 30, 2006
Now Hiring Executive Director of Indianapolis Peace House
April 27, 2006
Now Hiring Managing Editor of Online Publications
The Plowshares Collaborative is now accepting applications for Managing Editor of the Plowshares online publications.
September 22, 2005
In Solidarity: Engaging Empire
Kelli Yoder Next month, Goshen College will be hosting the third annual Plowshares Student & PJSA National Peace & Justice Conference, entitled “In Solidarity Engaging Empire.” This weekend event will be packed with 60 workshops, panel discussions, films, speakers, and strategy sessions. Participants will tackle topics such as dismantling systems of oppression, strategies for overturning empire, racism, white supremacy and white privilege, nonviolence and more. The event takes place October 6-9, leaving students plenty of time to become involved.
September 12, 2005
Mary Lind Appointed Associate Director of Indianapolis Peace House
Indianapolis, IN, September 8, 2005. Mary Lind of Portland, Oregon, was appointed Associate Director of Indianapolis Peace House. Her duties will begin October 1.
June 27, 2005
Goshen College students study civil rights era during May term on storied soil
GOSHEN, Ind. – In Memphis, Tenn., in front of the Lorraine Hotel where Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot, Molly Moyer had an experience that she couldn’t have had by reading a textbook or even watching a documentary. After reading and hearing about the civil rights movement, the feeling of standing in the exact spot of such a historic event was emotionally overwhelming.
June 27, 2005
Bearing witness, conveying relevance:Goshen journalism students report on response of Swaziland Christians to AIDS
GOSHEN, Ind. – Seated on a reed mat against the wall of a concrete hut, Anna Groff’s notes were sparse as she and fellow Goshen College student Kimberlee Rohrer (Sr., Orrville, Ohio) interviewed Phumile, a young Swazi mother. Like nearly 40 percent of the population of her country, she has contracted HIV; like the two students, she is in her early 20s.
October 21, 2004
Practicing Peace
An interview with Erin Williams, Goshen College junior and Peace House resident, in preparation for a visit from Williams and Ruth Hill, associate director of Peace House, to the Goshen College Campus. See for pdf documents of the newspaper.
September 29, 2004
Howard Zinn: War corrupts everybody
Howard Zinn, writer and activist, author of "The People's History of the United States" spoke to the Manchester campus and community, and visitors from Plowshares Collaborative schools. This article was originally printed in The Bloomington Alternative and is reprinted with the author's permission.
September 21, 2004
Open house dedicates Indianapolis Peace House
Peace House opens its first semester with a gathering of the Collaborative's colleges and friends.
September 2, 2004
Peace House begins first semester
The Goshen College Record reports on the start of activities with the Indianapolis Peace House, and interviews the students.
February 27, 2004
Interview with Judy O'Bannon
February 19, 2004
Peace House Gains Three Experienced Leaders
New directors to bring leadership for the Plowshares Peace House in Indianapolis
February 15, 2004
Former first lady accepts position promoting peace and justice studies
FORMER FIRST LADY TAKES POSITION AS PLOWSHARES DIRECTOR OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
January 7, 2004
Plowshares Names Associate Director for Indianapolis Peace House
Ruth Hill, a specialist in peace and justices studies, has been appointed associate director of the new Indianapolis Peace House, a component of the Plowshares project of Earlham, Goshen and Manchester colleges. Her appointment is effective Monday, January 12.
November 11, 2003
Colleges help Students find Socially Responsible Work
The search for "gainful employment" after graduation took on a somewhat different meaning for many young college students in Indiana this month. Participants in the first-of-its-kind Public Interest and Community Service (PICS) Fair, they gathered in Indianapolis with hopes of gaining not just financial return, but more importantly personal reward.
November 2, 2003
Three Plowshares Students in Conversation with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Kashish Shrestha (Nepal), Hussein Yussuf (Somalia), and Fadi Elsalameen can speak first hand of the effects of war on young people in their countries. These students from Manchester, Goshen, and Earlham Colleges respectively come from areas of the world where military and paramilitary conflicts involve children and youth.
October 29, 2003
Plowshares brings students together twice in one week
Students from Goshen, Manchester, and Earlham Colleges met twice last week for Plowshares events. Monday, October 13, the Plowshares colleges met in Indianapolis at Butler University to listen to writer Michael Moore speak.
October 15, 2003
Indianapolis Peace House Job Announcements
October 15, 2003
Michael Moore speaks to large crowd in Indianapolis
Michael Moore challenges college students and Indianapolis audience to become politically engaged, and to question Bush administration policies
August 15, 2003
Miller Farm Students Cultivate Community Supported Agriculture Effort
In a program called Community Supported Agriculture, several Earlham students have joined with Richmond area consumers to create a new option for growing and receiving vegetables this summer.
August 1, 2003
Plowshares brings three experts in conflict resolution
A groundbreaking Indiana-based peace education project funded by a $13.8 million Lilly Endowment Inc. grant has selected its three keystone professors. They are a Dublin-based world authority on bigotry and reconciliation, an expert in Islamic issues and civilization and a former theologian who has lobbied Congress and the United Nations on peace issues.
May 5, 2003
Liechty appointed Plowshares peace studies professor at Goshen College
Joseph Liechty, scholar, peace practitioner and mission worker in Ireland for 23 years, has been named Goshen College Plowshares associate professor of peace, justice and conflict studies.
March 20, 2003
Campus responds to news of beginning of war with Iraq
Goshen College prepares opportunities for responses on campus to the beginning of war with Iraq.
February 27, 2003
Indianapolis Peace House now accepting applications for Fall 2003
The Plowshares Peace Studies Collaborative has announced the launching of the Indianapolis Peace House Program for Fall 2003, and is beginning to accept applications for the urban peacemaking program.
February 4, 2003
The Rewards of Simplicity to be the Focus of Earlham Conference from February 28 - March 2
In a world that often seems insane with striving and busyness, people can wonder whether they are losing touch with something more fundamental, more important.
January 7, 2003
N.Y. Times investigative journalist Doug Frantz comes home for Manchester College discussions
Award-winning New York Times journalist and eight-time author Doug Frantz is coming home Thursday.
January 1, 2003
Quakers and Peace: The Spirituality of Peacemaking By Jay Marshall
Hardly any American has escaped the task of pondering responses to acts of terrorism in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. While many voices advocate for military action, not all are convinced. Members of historic peace church groups have been adamant that alternatives to violence are the best response to brutal acts of terrorism.
January 1, 2003
Goshen College dedicates Peace Pole Nov. 13 as part of Plowshares initiative
More than 150 people gathered on November 13, 2002 to dedicate a Peace Pole on Goshen’s campus.
In a world filled with discord – whether personal, societal or global – three Indiana colleges will form an extraordinary alliance to help promote positive responses to the conflicts that affect individuals each day.
January 1, 2003
David Leeper to Direct Earlham's Plowshares Peace Projects
Earlham has hired David Leeper, an attorney, pastor, mediator, and educator to direct the College's portion of the Plowshares Peace Project.
January 1, 2003
Earlham to Strengthen Peace Programs with Sharing of $13.88 Million Lilly Endowment Grants
Earlham and two other Indiana colleges are collaborating together to strengthen peace, justice and conflict studies on the three campuses, in Indianapolis, and across the nation and world, thanks to a $13.88 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
