MPACS educates, trains, and empowers students to enter roles as agents of peaceful change at community, institutional, and systemic levels.  It is an interdisciplinary program, integrating scholarship with practical application. The principles undergirding this program are that conflict is an inescapable part of the human experience as well as a potential vehicle for positive change, and that conflict is best transformed through collaborative and imaginative solutions, not by force or violence. This dynamic master’s program explores current scholarship and examines best practices to imagine, test, and apply sustainable and creative solutions to conflict locally, nationally and internationally.