University of Michigan Global Scholars Program

This year is GSP’s 15th Anniversary! We are thrilled to invite our students and alumnx to attend our celebration dinner and annual Culture Show, which will be held on November 22nd from 6-8pm at the 2nd floor Ballroom of the Michigan League. We are excited to celebrate the wonderful contributions that each of our students, past and present, have made to our program, and we hope to see you all there! Join us for food, festivities, and fun! RSVP at this link: https://lnkd.in/e_pxEY3b

?? Join us for the grand exhibition at the United Nations, where the Global Peace Flag, an initiative of Fashioning for Social Environmental Justice created from fashion waste, will connect 193 countries in a monumental art project. This project is endorsed by the UN SDG Action Campaign I'll be at the UN Headquarters on October 9th from 11 AM to 4 PM, welcoming students and guests to explore the impact of fashion on social justice, sustainability, and global peace. If you’re attending or want to witness this powerful initiative, reach out and let’s connect! See you there! ? #GlobalPeaceFlag #SustainableFashion #ArtForChange #UNExhibition

GSP is excited to host our annual Global Citizenship in Practice event. Open to the public as well as students, this year's theme is "Global Citizenship in an Age of Democratic Peril" featuring keynote speaker Dr. Saladin Ambar. To register, please go to myumi.ch/W51E5 Dr. Saladin Ambar is a professor of political science at Rutgers University's Eagleton Institute of Politics, an award-winning author, and Co-Director of the Democracy Committee for the New Jersey Institute for Racial Justice's Reparations Council. We are excited to welcome him to Ann Arbor for this event.

When I started Fashioning Social Environmental Justice, it was to educate and empower individuals to make informed choices, and shape public opinion for the better. As a nonprofit, we are committed to advancing both social and environmental justice across multiple fronts, beyond using fashion as a tool to address critical global issues; but also highlighting innovative strategies and sustainable practices, to inspire positive change and create lasting impacts on society and the environment. I had the opportunity to be a keynote speaker at University of Michigan Global Scholars Program last year, and fast forward... I am honored to announce our #partnership in shaping #future #leaders of tomorrow. Thank you Benjamin A. Peters, Ph.D.

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Congratulations to long-time GSP partner ALPHA Education on the grand opening of the WongAvery Asia Pacific Peace Museum. The museum, located in Toronto, is the first in the world to be dedicated to educating and commemorating the entirety of the history of World War II in Asia. With humanity and peace as its theme, it is a historical milestone.?Congratulations and thank you for your contributions to peacemaking, ALPHA Education!

GSP’s Statement on the Pursuit of Peace, Liberation, and Human Rights The Global Scholars Program (GSP) affirms the inherent dignity of each person and stands for peace, liberation, and human rights. We are committed to an applied, global social justice-based education that includes the use of dialogue, a communicative practice of peace which honors individual dignity and the diversity of our communities, including our diverse social identities and our many perspectives and lived experiences. We join in dialogue out of mutual respect and a desire to learn. We strive to be brave in making space for, sharing, and listening to each other’s stories. We work to build knowledge, practice skills, and foster relationships that prepare us to help bring an end to domination and dehumanization in all forms and to strive for a world where all enjoy dignity, all are free, and all may live in peace. Our program stands with students and all those – near and far – working toward these goals and exercising their universal human rights, which include but are not limited to freedom of opinion and expression; freedom of peaceful assembly and association; and freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. We also affirm their freedom from arbitrary arrest or detention, freedom from cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, and all other protections of their universal human rights. We acknowledge that our community members here, near, and afar are engaged in this important work for peace, liberation, and human rights in ways that we know and do not know, and we are indebted.