Our Mission || The Plowshares Collaborative

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... leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.

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Our Mission

The mission of the Plowshares Peace Studies Collaborative of Earlham, Goshen and Manchester Colleges is to be a beacon of light in a world marked by violence, through:

continuing the peacemaking traditions of the Society of Friends, Mennonite Church and Church of the Brethren;
creating opportunities for dialogue and for learning about peacemaking for students at the undergraduate level;
further strengthening the academic Peace Studies programs of our institutions, and creating models for others to learn from and emulate;
establishing Peace House, an academic and experiential program in an urban setting through which students can learn about the roots of conflict and the strategies and methods of peacemaking;
creating a national and international resource base for education in Peace Studies; and
learning to collaborate together as three colleges, sharing resources, courses, faculty and students.