Northwest Vista College celebrated International Peace Day on Sept. 21 by recognizing the new partnership between the San Antonio Peace Center and NVC and the Alamo Colleges.
This new partnership will help strengthen NVC’s existing Peace and Conflict studies program and expand its programmatic offerings.
Since 1994, the San Antonio Peace Center has nurtured peace and compassion in the community. The founders, Rosalyn Falcón Collier, Ann E. Helmke, and Susan Ives are innovative, responsive, and creative in their approaches to peace. The three practical peacemakers compiled and authored a robust collection of nonviolence curriculum that became an important source and guide for many academic endeavors for peace and conflict studies programs as well as a toolkit for community members.
In 2017, the San Antonio Peace Center was the catalyst to have San Antonio recognized as a Compassionate City. The International Campaign for Compassionate Cities is a global movement inspired by the Golden Rule, or Ethic of Reciprocity, which calls on each person to treat others as they would want to be treated.