Dr. Carl Stauffer, the new Academic Director of the Caux Scholars Program, writes a biographical sketch:

It is an honor to be tapped as Academic Director for the Caux Scholars Program. The more I discover about the rich history of CSP, the more I see how my life experience and the collective journey of CSP have followed similar paths of reconciliation.

Former Caux Scholar, Jeanné Isler, recently accepted a position as Project Director of "Search for Common Ground on Race." Hope in the Cities was part of the Racial Healing Working Group convened by Search for Common Ground (SFCG) and the Faith and Politics Institute in July of 2009.

Caux Scholars 2011 Brochure

“The program exceeded my expectations in every conceivable way,” says Ruan Pethiyagoda, a Sri Lankan studying journalism at the University of Seattle, WA. He was one of 19 students, representing 16 countries who participated in this year’s Caux Scholars Program.

Dr. Barry Hart is stepping down after 14 years as academic director of the Caux Scholars Program. He has served on the faculty since the program began in 1991 and became its academic director in 1997. Dr. Hart, who serves as academic director and professor of Trauma, Identity and Conflict Studies at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, has developed the curriculum and enlisted the faculty for CSP each year.

"Beneath the surface of a failed conference, there has emerged a common vision amongst youth, which inspires me to continue doing this work," writes Marcia Lee, a 2009 Caux Scholar from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who attended the conference on climate change.

Caux Scholars Program

Le Caux Scholars Program est un programme de formation en analyse, résolution et transformation des conflits, destiné aux étudiants de niveau licence intéréssés par les questions éthiques. Il se déroule chaque été pendant un mois dans le centre de rencontres internationales d’Initiatives et Changement à Caux, en Suisse.

Il comporte un enseignement sur l’importance de la dimension morale des processus de paix.