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As an international education organization we feel that we have an obligation to help with the development of global civil society and to foster a global Culture of Peace in the spirit espoused by UNESCO. This means that we try to infuse our broader work, as well as our study abroad programs, with some degree of focus on peace and justice issues. BCA offers programs that give attention to peace and justice in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and Northern Ireland.

Why is Peace & Justice BCA’s focus?

It's important.

Today’s world is fraught with conflicts over resources, the environment, national and religious identities, human rights, economic justice and the rule of law. The problems of terrorism, war and ethnic conflicts cannot be avoided and must be addressed. BCA believe that by addressing these problems and attempting to suggest solutions through the study of peace processes and conflict resolution, a peaceful and just world order might be created.

More about the content of our peace and justice programs.

It's part of who we are.

A concern with peace and justice is central to BCA’s identity, and to the higher education institutions that founded BCA nearly 50 years ago. Although BCA is a secular, non-sectarian organization, it remains committed to some of the core values embraced for the past 300 years by the members of the Church of the Brethren. Like the Quakers and Mennonites, the Church of the Brethren's longstanding commitment to the peaceful resolution of conflict has earned it a place as one of the three historic "Peace Churches" of the United States.

More about the history of BCA.

It's one way we can fill a significant academic gap.

For many U.S. students, extensive peace and justice programs are not available, especially on smaller liberal arts and sciences campuses. In addition, many students in peace and justice studies programs in the U.S. would like to connect their academic work at home with programs abroad where the issues may be much more current. BCA has worked closely with the Peace & Justice Studies Association to facilitate this by co-sponsoring the PJSA annual conference in 2007, and by providing a waiver of application fees for students at PJSA member institutions.

Of course, BCA also offers the classic options for study abroad programs, including opportunities to focus on a foreign language or to pursue liberal arts and sciences programming in another setting. But our peace and justice programs add a multidisciplinary option, one that informs the study abroad experience in new and compelling ways.

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