Jordanian student brings her passion for peacebuilding to Milwaukee

Rawand Yazaw in 2018 with students from Prince Hamza Bin Al Hussein School in Jordan. Students attended the Model United Nations conference to learn about diplomacy, international relations and the United Nations.  A graduate student in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s …

$3 MILLION GIFT ESTABLISHES PEACEBUILDING PROFESSORSHIP AT UWM

The Wm. Collins Kohler Foundation has committed $3 million to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to create an endowed professorship known as the Wm. Collins Kohler Chair in Systems Change & Peacebuilding. Timothy Ehlinger, an associate professor in the College of …

UWM research team addresses violence among American Indian women

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 1 in 5 women report having experienced severe physical violence from an intimate partner, or IPV, in their lifetime. A 2016 study from the National Institute of Justice found that more than …