Leadership and Diplomacy Certificate
This certificate of proficiency aims to increase student awareness, knowledge, and skills to make them more effective leaders, negotiators, and problem solvers in their respective careers.
Is Peace Buildable?
The world needs more people in it committed to creating peace, and we aim to empower students with the skills needed to bring about social change. The Heravi Peace Institute at Utah State University prepares students to enter the workforce already adept at cultural peacebuilding, conflict management, nonprofit work, and the power to create intentional relationships and enact change in their communities.
This institute, housed in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, is an academic program that supports student internships and other experiential learning, faculty and student research activities, and ongoing programming and public outreach in the field of peacebuilding through the proactive implementation of skills in a variety of settings and institutions to practice nonviolent collaboration and transformative conflict at the personal, interpersonal, family, community, intergroup, national, and international levels.
What We Offer Students
This uniquely interdisciplinary approach combines coursework from history, political science, communication studies, religious studies, and others to equip students with vital and marketable skills alongside strategic and creative approaches to conflict. Graduates leave as thoughtful professionals and active citizens ready to help build peaceful and transformative societies. And because certificates are designed to complement existing majors and minors, USU students can explore these skills without changing programs.
Conflict Management and Facilitation Institutional Certificate
Become a spacemaker so you can discuss, manage and diffuse conflict in personal and professional environments.
Global Peacebuilding - Certificate
Supplement your major and minor studies with an understanding of historical and contemporary causes of conflicts and efforts to create peace.
Interfaith Leadership - Certificate
Develop the competencies required to participate in effective interfaith cooperation and gain an appreciation for the many ways religion influences life.
Nonprofit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship Certificate
Supplement your major study by learning about and developing skills relating to nonprofit and corporate social change efforts.
Space Making Program
The Heravi Peace Institute is proud to house USU's Space Making Program — a place for USU students to talk through life’s challenges in a confidential setting. Space-makers are USU students who are passionate about helping others. They are formally trained in conflict management and facilitation through courses, hours of observation, ongoing training, and practice in holding safe, exploratory conversations with others. Make a free appointment at our website today!
Space Making Webpage
Celebrating Our Faculty
Karin deJonge-Kannan’s retirement party offered an opportunity for HPI faculty members Clair Canfield, Colin Flint, Patrick Mason, and Tammy Proctor to join college faculty, staff, and students in thanking Karin for her service as a faculty member. We are particularly grateful for her service to the Heravi Peace Institute and wish her well in her retirement.