The Peace Studies Capstone Futures Project I did during the Spring 2014 semester at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University was focused on writing a report to the Peace Studies department from the year 2044 describing the peace activities he was involved in since commencement in 2014. Our peace activities were centered on a goal we set. My goal was that by the year 2044 there will be a mechanism implemented, likely using social media, that enables any person to report any human rights violation/info regarding a human rights violation directly to relevant officials (UN, nation-state governments, etc.) to improve upon the current responses given to such violations, especially where they stand to directly harm the working of society towards a just and positive peace (as any destruction of lives naturally is). My report is linked below, but so is another paper I wrote at the end of the semester for a different class that falls along the same thread of human rights.

PCST 399 Is Peace Possible? Futures Project Report

• Report to the PCST Department from 2044

This is the actual paper that I turned in at the conclusion of the capstone class as the final element of the Peace Studies major.

COMM 387B Rhetoric of Human Rights Term Paper

• Term Paper on Importance of Rhetoric of Human Rights Moving Forward

This paper examines the importance of rhetoric of human rights through time from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights until the present. I refer to this paper in a portion of my futures project report, but regardless of that I put the two papers side-by-side here because of how much their overarching topics are related to one another.