Kroc IPJ Releases 2024 Border Fellows Report
The Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice has released its 2024 Border Fellows Report, documenting the work of seven peacebuilders embedded in communities across Tijuana and Mexicali. Operating in one of the world's busiest and most volatile border regions, the 2024 cohort addressed chronic violence through education, economic empowerment, human rights advocacy, mental health, and environmental justice.
Their projects reflect a shared understanding that violence in the border region is rooted in structural neglect, marginalization, and discrimination. Fellows trained institutions serving unaccompanied migrant children, taught digital skills to women in neighborhoods marked by gender-based violence, supported justice-involved youth, created community gardens in migrant shelters, and brought migrant voices directly into the Baja California State Congress.
The report captures not just what each Fellow accomplished, but why it matters, and how grassroots peacebuilding, when connected to systems change, can begin to shift the conditions that make violence possible.
About the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice
The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (Kroc IPJ) launched in 2001 with a vision of active peacebuilding. In 2007, the Kroc IPJ became part of the newly established Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies. The core of the Kroc IPJ mission is to co-create learning with peacemakers, learning that is deeply grounded in the lived experience of peacemakers around the world, that is made rigorous by our place within a university ecosystem, and that is immediately and practically applied by peacemakers to end cycles of violence.