Overview

Lewis University offers both a Bachelor of Arts and a minor in Peace and Justice Studies (PJS). In the PJS major, students will develop their capacity to have an impact on advancing just peace through critical awareness of injustices and the vision and ability to transform them. PJS majors and minors will cultivate knowledge and skills that work toward conflict transformation, civic interfaith leadership, nonviolent strategic action, and peacebuilding through focusing the just peace lens while engaging with diverse communities.

Pathways

Five different pathways are available for students to pursue based on personal interests and career goals. The pathways are:

Conflict Transformation – Aims to transform negative destructive conflict into positive constructive conflict in order to foster human thriving and enact just systems. (modified from definition by the Berghof Foundation)

Restorative/Transformative Justice – Regards crime as a harm to those impacted by it and seeks to heal the harm experienced by actors, survivors and community members, rather than punishing and silencing those involved.

Human Rights and Equitable Development – Explores the conditions and systems which deprive persons of their freedoms, proper agency and rights, and then seeks to study and create ways to ensure access and full exercise of those rights to participate fully in human community.

Women and Gender Equity and Inclusion – Examines gender as a social and cultural construction and draws on feminist lenses and methods to examine local and global systems of privilege and oppression, and relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities such as race, sexual orientation, socio-economic class, and diverse-ability. (modified from Shaw & Lee, 2014).

Interfaith and Intercultural Bridgebuilding – Connects persons and communities across religious traditions and cultural contexts to work side-by-side toward mutually identified goals that prosper the common good.

Sample classes

International Human Rights
Multicultural Issues in Criminal Justice
Sustainable Communities
Psychology of Minority Experience
Violence and Peace
Global Educational Systems

Career areas

Graduates of the Peace and Justice Studies degree will be prepared for a wide variety of careers. A few of the many possibilities follow.

Diversity, equity and inclusion officer
educator
negotiator
mediator
lawyer
human rights advocate
environmental conservationist
community organizer
restorative justice practitioner

Programme Structure

Courses include

Practicing Faithful Justice

Mediation

Social Movements and Social Change

Community Engaged Learning Leadership

Lifespan Development
Psychology of Women

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-01-19 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-07-02 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2027-01-02 00:00:00 , National
Starting 2027-08-24 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-02-15 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2027-04-15 00:00:00 , National

More details

international deadline six months before

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Chicago, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Undergraduate Application
Secondary School Transcripts, or National Exam results
Secondary school completion certificate
English Proficiency exam scores
Copy of passport

Tuition Fees

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International Applies to you

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Non-residents

41900 USD / year

≈ 41900 USD / year
Out-of-State

41900 USD / year

≈ 41900 USD / year
Domestic

Applies to you

In-State

41900 USD / year

≈ 41900 USD / year

Living costs

Chicago

United States

1297 - 2491 USD / month

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Career areas

Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

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Credits

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Campus Location

Disciplines

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General requirements

Tuition Fees

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