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Center for Peace, Justice and Human Rights (PJHR)

Launched in 2014, the Center for Peace, Justice and Human Rights (PJHR) Initiative grew out of FAU’s highly successful Peace Studies Program, which was founded in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters in 1999. PJHR is one of nine key “platforms” in the University’s Strategic Plan. The Center is a university-wide, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary effort that brings together scholars, students, practitioners, and community leaders engaged in the themes of justice, human rights, and peace and nonviolence.

Our collaborative community includes students, university staff, and community partners, as well as dozens of Faculty Affiliates who represent disciplines from across the university and FAU’s six campuses. PJHR  includes the Arthur and Emalie Gutterman Family Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education and the Leon Charney Diplomacy Program. Together, we are the diverse faculty, staff, and students at a Hispanic-Serving public university, located at the crossroads of the United States and the Caribbean, who believe it is possible and necessary to create a more just, peaceful and equitable world. Our goal is to create positive change locally, nationally, and internationally by advancing knowledge and bold solutions to social problems through our research, teaching and learning, and community engagement.


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76-UDHR-Event October - December 2025:
Please mark your calendars and plan to join us as we continue to learn more about the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the inalienable rights they protect. Three signature events will highlight a different aspect of women’s human rights. Learn More...

NEWS
PJHR in collaboration with the Florida Atlantic Teachers' Research Group: Hispanic Serving Entities
Faculty and Students Join Forces to Support Peace Efforts in Colombia
Translation of Colombian Truth Commission Reports into English
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Burrowing Owl on Campus
The Lynn, Wold, Schmidt Ph.D. Fellowship in Peace Studies
This Fellowship supports one newly admitted student in the Comparative Studies Program whose research explores questions related to peace, nonviolence, and/or peacebuilding.
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Dilys Schoorman with NAME award flanked by Lakia Scott (President-Elect, NAME), G. Prtichy Smith (NAME Founder and Award Donor), and Ludy van Broekhuizen.  
Dilys Schoorman Receives Multicultural Educator Award for 2024
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Khrystyna Zai Master of Music in Violin Performance & Concertmaster of Florida Atlantic Symphony Orchestra
Khrystyna Zai performs at event celebrating the Kurt & Marilyn Wallach Holocaust and Jewish Studies Building
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Dr. Gabriel Cesar with his capstone students. Alice is second from the left.
PJHR is excited to announce the creation of “The Gordon Bazemore Capstone Travel Award (GBCT)"
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EVENTS
Mya Guarnieri
Author Reading and Q&A, Mya Guarnieri, Nov. 13
Crossing the Line: An Israeli-Palestinian Love Story
From Incarceration to Inspiration Graphic
From Incarceration to Inspiration with David Garlock
October 22, 12:30 pm at the Live Oak Pavilion in the Student Union, Florida Atlantic, Boca Raton
PJHR Research Talk Series 2025-26 graphic with realistic owl
PJHR Research Talk Series 2025-26
September - December
Maui community of Lahaina burned by wildfire
PJHR Research Talk Series - Visual Methods in Disaster Research
Monday, March 10, 2025 at 1 pm: Talk by Kaila Witkowski, PhD, School of Public Administration
Hip Hop Across the Americas Conference
Hip Hop Across America Conference
10 am - 5 pm, November 15, 2024, Live Oak Pavilion A & B
SPOTLIGHT
Vicki Rosenthal
Interactive Art Installation by Vicki Rosenthal during PJHR's 76th Anniversary Celebration of the UDHR
Vicki Rosenthal is a creative of social justice (an artivist) advancing advocacy through art using authentic stories to create understanding and equity. Her artistic works include distinctive designs on apparel, paintings,...
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Palina Prysmakova; Ales Bialatski
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Ales Bialiatski and Me
Article by Palina Prysmakova, PJRH Affiliate and Associate Professor, School of Public Administration
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Dr. Ashley Graham Kennedy
Understanding Child Labor in Myanmar
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Holocaust and Jewish Studies at FAU