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Avery Beckelman

Focus of your capstone project and how you became interested in it: My capstone project explores the relationship between mental health and poverty, specifically how it impacts individuals in Baltimore. The project focuses on the negative impacts of limited access to mental health that contribute to the violent cycles of economic hardships and social inequality. Highlighting the barriers and challenges that living in poverty can amplify within mental health, such as affording treatment, being diagnosed, and long-term support. I hypothesize in my capstone that poverty and mental health reinforce one another in Baltimore, which becomes difficult to break this pattern without community-based mental health programs or justice centered policy reformation. Peace-building becomes prevalent in the project when I propose potential strategies or solutions to this injustice.
As a Psychology major with a minor in Peace and Justice, I chose this project because I care deeply about how my community's mental health is shaped by systems that may work against them based on socioeconomic status. Growing up visiting family in Baltimore I realized how mental health is consistently overlooked when poverty is also a factor. This gave me the motivation to explore how these challenges are connected in affecting people's livelihood. This project feels meaningful to me because it also brings hope to bringing communities together to help break these cycles and work towards equitable systems.

Chloe Hamilton

Focus of your capstone project and how you became interested in it: My capstone will examine how genocide develops by using historical cases like Rwanda and Bosnia to break down its key elements and warning signs. It will also explore why international law often fails to prevent these atrocities, focusing on weak enforcement and lack of political action. In addition, the project will analyze how definitions of genocide and issues of accountability shape global responses. Finally, it will consider how similar patterns can emerge over time, including within the United States, and suggest ways to improve prevention and accountability through stronger legal and institutional measures.

Ella Dice                                                                

Focus of your capstone project and how you became interested in it: My capstone is focused on nonprofit and international aid as outdated models of systemic structural violence. I plan on focusing on different models of aid and their effectiveness such as service learning, charity giving and possibly mission trips. I want to explore how aid and support can be given to communities in a less neocolonial way that supports community organization outside of the western imagination. Through the examination of positive models of aid and nonprofit work that take the time to listen deeply before acting. 
I chose this project because it is deeply rooted in personal experience. I have had the opportunity to travel to Rwanda twice and Uganda once, through this I was able to see the different models of aid and their impacts both positive and negative. On one of my trips to Rwanda through the Loyola Global Studies Scholar Program, I  was able to work with the Global Livingston Institute (GLI) a nonprofit that's model 'Listen, Think, Act' impacted the way I perceived aid and the relationship between the global north and south. Instead of imposing western ideals and modes of aid I believe deeply in the power of listening deeply to understand communities and broader global dynamics in order to best empower and support thriving communities across the globe.                      

Reparations for a National Reckoning

Adelina Harvey '20

Reason(s) why you became a Peace and Justice minor: I became a Peace and Justice minor after becoming involved with the Peace and Justice Studies club and CCSJ my first year. I chose to pursue the minor because I was interested in studying the topics from a diverse range of perspectives and disciplines and I wanted to prepare myself for a career that would allow me to strategically address social injustice. 

Focus of your capstone project and how you became interested in it: The focus of my capstone project was reparations for African Americans in the United States. My project explores racial injustice  in the U.S. and how it has accumulated and been compounded over time as privilege and inequality is passed down through generations due to our failure to address the harm inflicted on African Americans by the institution of slavery. I argue that white Americans have a collective responsibility to repair that harm through a national reparations program that would build peace and promote justice by facilitating reconciliation and a national reckoning by encouraging the entire country to critically analyze our collective history and how it impacts our present. I became interested in this topic my junior year after reading 鈥淭he Case for Reparations鈥� by Ta-Nehisi Coates for two of my Peace and Justice classes. After reading Coates鈥� article and studying reparations programs in other countries, I became interested in critically analyzing our own country and the unrepaired injuries that have contributed to injustice and lack of peace for centuries. 

Relevance to current events: My capstone is relevant to current events because as white people are becoming more aware of racial injustice in our country and involved in activism against it, it is important to consider the historical roots of that injustice, how it has accumulated over time, and our collective responsibility to repair the harm it has caused. 

Future plans: I will be starting graduate school at Boston College this fall to pursue my Master of Social Work (MSW) degree with a focus in Macro Social Work and a certificate in Policy and Community Organizing. 

To learn more about the history of racial injustice in America and the case for reparations, check out the resources below: 

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Roman Conceptualization of Peace through Tradition and Order: Significance of Ancient History for Contemporary Peace Studies

Hannah Lee '20

Reason(s) why you became a Peace and Justice minor -- I became a Peace and Justice Studies minor because I have always had a love for community service and justice, yet I was never able to dive deeper into what peace and justice really meant in and to my community, country, and the world. I chose this minor so I can complement my dedication to serving others with a deeper understanding of what is behind the injustice that we see today and in history. More specifically, my major (History) paired well with this minor. My major/minor interdisciplinary combination allowed me to study peace and justice (as well as war and injustice) throughout Ancient Roman, Latin American, and East Asian histories.

 

Focus of your capstone project and how you became interested in it -- My capstone highlights the Ancient Roman conceptualization of peace and how this perception can benefit contemporary peace studies. I argue that the emphasized importance of tradition and order in Roman society/culture also contributed to how Romans perceived peace. Peace then was understood very differently from how it is today and it was not always strictly referred to as "peace" in ancient texts. This is because Roman peace was achieved and defined by when tradition and order were maintained. The structural framework of this understanding is organized both vertically and horizontally, offering a holistic image of peace in the ancient world. Vertically, Roman society was rigidly hierarchical to preserve order. Horizontally, all Romans stressed the importance of tradition in their lives--tradition connected all Romans, no matter their social class. The holistic organization of this framework, I argue, can benefit contemporary peace studies. I became interested in my capstone topic due to the several Ancient Roman history classes I have taken and my fascination with Ancient Rome. More importantly, I wanted to wrap up my time at Loyola by integrating my major and minor. 

Relevance to current events -- My topic is not necessarily relevant to current events. However, by taking a more historical approach to my capstone, I argued that analyzing history--in particular, antiquity--can greatly benefit the field of peace studies today. We can learn from history, especially the history we often overlook and/or underappreciate.

Future plans -- In September, I will be moving to Minneapolis to work with Habitat for Humanity under AmeriCorps as a Construction Volunteer Facilitator. Since 2013, I have volunteered for similar construction service work through Appalachia Service Project (ASP), so I look forward to continuing such work. I hope to use my year with AmeriCorps to reflect on what I want to do as a career. Currently, I plan to pursue a master's degree in Criminal Justice to work for criminal justice reform in some way, shape, or form.