The Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies

The Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies award honors a distinguished advocate for peace, noted humanitarian, or faith leader who is asked to serve in limited residency at the University of Massachusetts Lowell during one semester each year. The award is named for Rev. Dana McLean Greeley, who was an internationally respected advocate for peace, human rights, and civil rights and a long-time Unitarian Universalist minister in Concord, Massachusetts. The Scholar is selected on the basis of his or her ability to effectively promote the cause of peace and conflict resolution at local, regional, national, or international levels and/or peace and justice studies.

The Greeley Foundation for Peace and Social Justice is based in Concord and for 20 years has kept Rev. Greeley’s message of peace and justice alive by awarding grants to socially conscious organizations. Throughout its history, the goals of the foundation have been to promote dialogue and leadership; to elevate integrity, compassion, honesty and courage; and to seek creative ways to realize the unifying power of peace.   

“The creation of The Rev. Dana McLean Greeley Endowment for Peace Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Peace and Conflict Studies Institute will continue the work the foundation has been doing for the past 20 years,” said Edward Perry of the Greeley Foundation.  “The Greeley Endowment will fund a distinguished advocate for peace, noted humanitarian or faith leader in a limited residency during one semester each year.”

2009 Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies

The acclaimed international peace activist Padraig O’Malley is the 2009 Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies.  O'Malley is the John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor for Peace and Reconciliation at the McCormack Graduate School of Public Policy at UMass Boston. He is the recipient of the Peace Award of the International Association of University Presidents, the Eire Society Gold Medal Award, and the Freedom International Award. He is the author of the award-winning UnCivil Wars: Ireland Today, Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa, and the forthcoming The Greater Middle East: Different Starting Points, Different Histories.

Events featuring the 2009 Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies

Thursday, April 2 (2 - 3:30 p.m.)

“Finding a Way to Peace, from Northern Ireland to Iraq”

The Peace and Conflict Studies Institute’s Annual “Day without Violence” Program

O’Leary Library Auditorium (Room 222), UMass Lowell South

61 Wilder Street, Lowell

 

Wednesday, April 22, (12 – 1:30 p.m.)

“Making Peace City by City: Belfast, Mitrovica, Nicosia, Kirkuk, and Others”

Morse Federal Building (Assembly Room), Middlesex Community College

50 East Merrimack Street, Lowell

 

Wednesday, April 22 (7 p.m.)

“Paths to Peace in Lebanon and the Middle East”

Kerem Shalom

659 Elm Street, Concord

 

Wednesday, May 6 (12 - 1:30 p.m.)

“Truth and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland”

O’Leary Library Auditorium (Room 222), UMass Lowell South

61 Wilder Street, Lowell

Wednesday, May 6 (7 p.m.)

“The Peace Process in Northern Ireland: A Dialogue with Padraig O’Malley and UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan”

O’Leary Library Auditorium (Room 222), UMass Lowell South

61 Wilder Street, Lowell

The Greeley Scholar program is funded by the Greeley Endowment for Peace Studies and was established with a major gift from the former Dana McLean Greeley Foundation for Peace and Justice of Concord and a major contribution from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts via the UMass Foundation.

 

For information about PACSI, please contact Prof. Robert Gamache at Robert_Gamache@uml.edu, and for information about the Greeley Scholar activities please contact Paul Marion, executive director, Office of Community Relations, at Paul_Marion@uml.edu or call  978-934 -3107.