Strategic Academic Pathways Advisory Board

2021–2022

Anne C. Baker (She/Her) Trustee Emerita, Juniata College

Jim Borgardt, Ph.D. (He/Him) Chair, The Baker Institute Advisory Board

William W. Woolford Professor of Physics Department Chair, Physics

Randall Deike, Ph.D. (He/Him) Trustee, Juniata College

Henry Escuadro, Ph.D. (He/Him) Professor of Mathematics Department Chair, Mathematics

Alison Fletcher, Ph.D. (She/They) W. Newton & Hazel A. Long Professor of History

Sinead Gallagher, Ph.D. (She/Her) Assistant Professor of Accounting

El Kruglak, M.A. (They/Them) Alumni, Juniata College

Henry Thurston-Griswold, Ph.D. (He/Him) Professor of Spanish, Conflict Resolution & Mediation

Donna Weimer, Ph.D. (She/Her) Thornbury Professor of Communication Department Chair, Communication and Theatre Arts

Student Representatives

Grace Cook-Huffman ’22 (She/Her)

Cultural Violence and Media Studies

Cruzilious Contreras-Amezcua ’23 (They/He)

Social Transformation and Mediation Capacity

Shanna Menendez ’22 (She/Her) International Peace Studies

Melanie Thorn ’23 (She/Her)

Environmental Policy and Peacebuilding

Conflict Analysis

For conflict transformation and sustainable peace

From war to workplace disputes, understand the different types of conflict, why they exist and persist, and how to transform them to build lasting peace through policy and practice, at home and abroad.

Conflict Resolution & Meditation

For cooperative violence prevention

Explore and practice alternative methodologies for conflict resolution that focus on cooperation and collaboration to eradicate violence and dismantle systemic oppression.

Dialogue & Negotiation

For more productive discourse

Develop active listening and bargaining skills to contribute to more productive discourse in a variety of real-world contexts—because contemporary conflicts require us to have hard conversations.

Digital Peacebuilding

For more peaceful technology

Learn to analyze and respond to humanitarian disasters and crises using digital tools and technology to enhance and facilitate peaceful outcomes.

Peace Fellows 2021–2022

The following peacebuilders’ terms as Fellows of The Baker Institute were extended through 2022:

Daniel Bryan is an artist, activist, educator, and executive director of the Pachaysana Institute in Quito, Ecuador.

Jerry McCann is a licensed civil and structural engineer in the State of California and senior advisor to Build Up, which works with civic activists to find and apply innovative peacebuilding practices.

Caecilia van Peski is a Dutch diplomat, a licensed psychologist, and a practitioner in the field of peace and security, democratization, elections, and human rights, whose achievements have received national and international recognition.

Nonviolent Action & Social Justice

For more equitable communities History shows that building equitable and just societies is possible thanks to the transformative power of nonviolent action. Apply the theories and practice of nonviolence in different contemporary contexts.

What is Peace and Conflict Studies?

Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) is an interdisciplinary field that begins with the perspective that war and violence are not inevitable aspects of the human condition and that there are more productive and lasting means for addressing human conflicts. PACS draws from political science, sociology, history, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy, among other disciplines.

Baker Institute Fellows offer the campus community a range of opportunities, including intensive, non-credit bearing seminars; mentoring; public lecturing; guest lecturing in classes; informal small-group dialogue; and networking.

2021–2022 Sponsorships

The Baker Institute supported the following projects and institutions through sponsorship:

PEACE & JUSTICE STUDIES ASSOCIATION

The Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) serves as a professional association for scholars and practitioners in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies. PJSA is dedicated to uniting academics, educators, and activists to explore alternatives to violence and share visions and strategies for peacebuilding, social justice, and social change.

As part of intuitional membership with PJSA, the Baker Institute presents Juniata students with the opportunity to attend PJSA conference sessions, though in-person attendance was discouraged throughout the COVID -19 pandemic. The 2021 conference took place from October 8–10 in a hybrid format. Juniata students, staff, and faculty had the opportunity to live-stream conference sessions remotely.

Waging Nonviolence

Waging Nonviolence is an independent, non-profit media platform dedicated to providing original reporting and expert analysis of social movements around the world.

Impact Project

A collaboration between the Peacebuilding and the Arts Program at Brandeis University, The Baker Institute, and Maseno University in Kenya, IMPACT designed an infrastructure to strengthen the ecosystem of arts, culture, and conflict transformation (ACCT).