IPSE: Institute for Peace, Spirit, and Enviroment
Our global learning community, IPSE: Institute for Peace Spirit and Environment, serves as a hub for cultivating climate leadership dedicated to exploring and implementing the paradigm shifts necessary for facing the climate crisis resiliently, equitably, and meaningfully.
​The Institute for Peace, Spirit, and Environment is known by its acronym IPSE (ip-seh), Latin for “the thing itself, the actual, the very.” The name IPSE is a call for bold self-reflection that re-examines the actual state of things at this critical moment of climate crisis, for the purpose of generating paradigm-shifting ideas and research that help create a future of sustainable peace.
Why: IPSE revolutionizes the process, results, and impacts of peace studies and sustainability research, including:
Who: Diverse field-leading scholars and other change agents gathering in interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, inter-sector, and interreligious collaborations,
What: Courses, workshops, and conferences that explore topics within an analytical framework of sustainable peace and that ground participants' experience in personal and interpersonal peace practices, leading to the co-creation of innovative, transformational research,
When: Sustained collaboration as part of an ongoing, dynamic learning community,
Where: Both virtually and in person in the living peace laboratory of Meander Village,
How: Amplifying the real-world impacts of scholarship through IPSE’s book series, creative approaches to storytelling, and the network of the One Billion for Peace coalition.
Dark Green Bible
By 2060, two-thirds of the world's population will either be Christian or Muslim and their scriptures include the Bible which has been blamed by some for being the cause of climate crisis. Our scholars wrestle with these texts in the original contexts and from a variety of audience perspectives, especially First Nations peoples, to uncover the potential for biblical text to speak positively to the environmental crisis. Our language of the dark green Bible is an homage to Bron Taylor’s classic Dark Green Religion and the work of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, as well as all of the amazing scholars who have been working already on religion and ecology.
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