The Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (WIPCS) invites students, academics, and activists to the Marquette University campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for a one-day conference with an opening plenary the evening before.
WIPCS 2025 Theme – A More Peaceful and Just Future is Possible: Charting Paths from Failed Institutions to Collective Liberation.
The present moment is a call for action, marked by widespread failures among institutions we have been told will protect us: global climate initiatives have failed to produce meaningful commitments to slow the impacts of climate change; international courts have failed to protect human rights and uphold international law in Sudan, Ukraine, Palestine, the Congo, and beyond; and democratic states have failed to prevent the spread of inequality and authoritarianism at home and abroad. Now more than ever, peacemakers must mobilize.
This year’s conference seeks to explore avenues to act for peace and justice in the face of institutional failure—as activists, students, educators, researchers, artists, professionals, and global citizens. The framework of collective liberation—understanding that my freedom is bound up in yours, that nobody is free until everyone is free—provides peacemakers with a way forward to realizing the more just, equitable, and sustainable world that we know is possible.
There will be multiple ways to engage throughout the day: panels, plenaries, workshops, creative presentations, displays, discussion sessions, and community tours, concluding with our annual awards ceremony.
This 40th annual conference is an initiative of the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies in collaboration with Marquette University. WIPCS is a unique and vital consortium of private and public colleges and universities in Wisconsin dedicated to enriching academic and public discourse on issues of peace and conflict. WIPCS and Marquette University are non-partisan and encourage debate and discussion from multiple perspectives, not only of foreign policy issues and global areas of conflict, but also of domestic inequalities, gender relations, and environmental sustainability.
More Information
Please contact conference organizer, Jenna Harb, at jenna.harb@marquette.edu
Registration
Details regarding registering are forthcoming.
Hotel & travel information:
Conference-rate rooms have been reserved at the nearby Ambassador Hotel. Please call (414) 345-5000 and ask for WIPCS rate
