Office of the Dean
Dean's Message
Welcome to the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies!
The Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies is dedicated to building sustainable peace and justice by providing education, advancing scholarship, engaging communities and informing policy.
Bringing peace and justice studies to life on the University of San Diego campus requires active engagement in peacemaking through education, research and dialogue with practitioners. Our vision for the school is to be a nexus of dialogue and engagement, drawing together practitioners, theorists and academics, as well as religious and laypeople, American and internationals, professionals and volunteers, frontline activists and recent college graduates. They inform, challenge, support and inspire each other with the idea that peace can be imagined and built.
The school draws on the capabilities of its active institutes and programs. The Trans-Border Institute (TBI) works with the people who live on both sides of the busiest border crossing in the world, to conduct research and inform effective policies for the border region.
The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ) continues its vital work to offer both expertise and dialogue to frontline peacemakers and a concerned community on the subjects of conflict resolution and human rights.
We train our graduate students with the knowledge and skills they need to address some of the world’s most complex challenges. Our newly revised Master of Arts in Peace and Justice Studies prepares students to build peace in many of the world’s conflict-ridden regions.
Joan Kroc understood that this is a time of great danger and great possibility. A new type of institution is required to educate the peacebuilders of the 21st century. She wanted to build an institution that would be engaged fully - to “not only talk about peace, but make peace.” With Mrs. Kroc’s generous endowment, we are working towards this goal.
As founding dean, I am proud and honored to help move this extraordinary school forward. And I invite you to join us.
Peace be with you,
William R. Headley, C.S.Sp, Ph.D.
Dean
