Sustained Impact

Bridge2Rwanda Fellow, Bienfait H. Mugenza, Promoting Peace Through Entrepreneurship in the DRC

Projects for Peace — 2025-04-23T10:45:29-0400

Skidmore Grad Opens Library in Ivory Coast

Jonathon Norcross — 2025-04-14T10:42:41-0400

A Skidmore College alum who grew up in Anyama, Ivory Coast amidst a decade-long civil war returned to her hometown to open a library.

Steven Mukum ’26 Receives Two Awards Geared to Students at Forefront of Social Change

Ryan Dougherty — 2025-04-14T10:35:13-0400

Projects for Peace alum Steven (Tuti) Mukum has received both the John Lewis Young Leaders Fellowship and The Diana Award

A Childhood Dream

cmcardle@middlebury.edu — 2025-04-14T08:45:34-0400

Engineering student wins Project for Peace grant to establish technology center in Tanzania

Cultivating a Community of Care

Emily Innes — 2025-03-17T10:53:19-0400

Through the Davis Projects for Peace Grant and a Fulbright ETA, Allie Stankewich ’23 is building relationships with the communities she serves in East Africa.

Recent Graduate Launched Thriving Nonprofit in Home Country of Tanzania During Sophomore Year at Westminster

Sarah Rummel Backer — 2024-10-28T07:58:13-0400

Swai was the recipient of a Projects for Peace award in both 2022 and 2023, which she used to help provide school lunches for children in her home country of Tanzania.

Alumni Award Winner Bienfait Mugenza Delivers Keynote on Conflict Transformation through Peace Entrepreneurship

Projects for Peace — 2024-10-01T14:08:27-0400

The 2024 Alumni Award Winner delivered his address virtually to students at Middlebury’s Conflict Transformation Experiential Programs Reflection Dinner.

Projects for Peace Presents 2024 Alumni Award

dmcgrathconwell@middlebury.edu — 2024-05-30T16:17:37-0400

Projects for Peace and the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation at Middlebury are pleased to announce the 2024 Projects for Peace Alumni Award recipient: Bienfait Hahozi Mugenza of the Democratic Republic of Congo and founder of the Congo Peace Academy in Goma.

Alumni Award Winner Joseph Kaifala Speaks on Conflict Transformation

Devin McGrath-Conwell — 2023-08-03T14:14:49-0400

As part of Middlebury College’s recent “Summer Convening on Experiential Learning and Conflict Transformation,” inaugural Projects for Peace Alumni Award winner Joseph Kaifala visited campus.

Projects for Peace Presents First Alumni Award

dmcgrathconwell@middlebury.edu — 2023-06-23T14:36:11-0400

Projects for Peace and the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation at Middlebury have announced the inaugural recipient of the Projects for Peace Alumni Award: human rights and education activist Joseph Kaifala.