Funded by Kathryn W. Davis, a lifelong internationalist and philanthropist, and administered by the Lang Center in association with the Peace and Conflict Studies Program, the Davis Projects for Peace awards successful recipients — individual students or groups of students — with $10,000 to complete a creative, innovative and entrepreneurial project for peace in summer 2012. For more, visit http://www.swarthmore.edu/x27185.xml or contact Jennifer Magee (jmagee1) with questions.

Since the 2006-2007 academic year, George Lakey, author, activist, and, founder of Training for Change, has been part of the Peace and Conflict Studies program at Swarthmore and will teach PEAC 077 Peace Studies and Action, in Spring 2009.

Professor Lakey’s office is located in the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility.

Having interned last summer at Kiva.org and working with microfinance organizations, Camillus is using her Lang Opportunity Scholarship at Swarthmore to initiate and study a social justice project in Uganda in cooperation with Project Have Hope . You can follow her work this summer via her blog .

Starting in fall 2007, Jared will attend the JFK School of Government at Harvard on a Reynolds Foundation Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship .