Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
UN Sustainable Development Goals
We no longer know or understand each other. We are stuck in silos: disciplinary, sectoral, and identity-based. The UCalgary Pluralism Initiative seeks to find solutions to our shared problems, not by erasing our differences, but by encouraging our differences to emerge through novel systems, policies, procedures, and norms – fostering more constructive, creative, and vibrant dialogues, institutions, and societies.
Dr. Aleem Bharwani
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Pluralism Initiative empowers social diversity
UCalgary’s Pluralism Initiative continues its commitment to helping campus, city and wider communities address current social challenges and focuses on how people can understand and engage with social diversity to solve shared problems.
Research and Innovation
Research project takes ‘whole community’ approach to eradicating violence
Fostering Violence Prevention and Well-Being for Black Women, Families and Communities is a new research project funded under Preventing and Addressing Family Violence – the Health Perspective, a Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) initiative that aims to find concrete solutions to combatting domestic violence in Black Canadian communities.
UCalgary and the United Way are working to build stronger community connections
UCalgary researchers are exploring ways to improve the wellness of frontline staff in organizations that work with people experiencing homelessness.
Transformative Racial and Spatial Justice
Celebrating Black People’s Knowledges and Contributions is a collaboration between the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Social Work Anti-Black Racism Task Force and the School of Architecture Planning and Landscape (SAPL). During the summer, an empty downtown storefront on Stephen Avenue was converted as a pop-up known as the Calgary Design Clinic. The space offered opportunities to various Black communities, local leaders, artists and musicians to come together, perform their work and be celebrated.
Teaching, Learning and Student Experience
UCalgary’s Law Clinic acts as legal counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada
Law students get hands-on experience acting as legal counsel for the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE). CAPE is appearing before the court as an intervener in a constitutional challenge arguing for the inclusion of GHGs and climate change in the federal impact assessment process and public interest decision-making.
Certificate in Pluralism and Global Citizenship
The certificate focuses on giving students an edge in the employment market by teaching them how to solve the world’s toughest problems by identifying and convening ideas and perspectives from multiple disciplines, sectors, and communities. Through the certificate, students can develop the skills and attitudes to live and lead with creative problem-solving that blends empathy, creativity and productivity.
Bringing together research, education and industry co-operation
The Student Legal Assistance (SLA) tackles accessibility and equity gaps in the legal system by offering legal representation to low-income clients while giving University of Calgary law students valuable real-world experience in delivering legal services.
Campus and Community Impact
Provincial post-secondary Recovery on Campus program
In partnership with UCalgary’s Campus Mental Health Strategy (CMHS), Student Wellness Services and the Faculty of Social Work, the UCalgary Recovery Community (UCRC) has created Recovery on Campus (ROC) Alberta, a peer-driven organization committed to normalizing and celebrating all pathways of recovery through housing, peer support, social activities, awards and education across all 26 post-secondary institutions in Alberta.
Partners team up to fight cybercrime
The first-of-its-kind public-private partnership between the Calgary Police Service, the University of Calgary, and local cybersecurity business will create the infrastructure and processes needed to strengthen cybersecurity.
A new era of community safety: UCalgary launches new safety app
The UCSafety app is designed to send important safety alerts, provide instant access to safety resources, and give peace of mind to those working and studying alone.