Dr. Mehdi Heravi Peace Institute Student Support Endowment

The mission and purpose of the Heravi Peace Institute is to promote direct, structural and cultural peace through a fourfold approach involving teaching, research, praxis and public outreach. Certificates offered include global peacebuilding, interfaith leadership, conflict management and facilitation, leadership and diplomacy, and nonprofit organizations and social entrepreneurship.

 

About Mehdi Heravi

A longtime advocate of peace and community in the face of differences, Heravi came to USU from Iran, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in political science. His generosity has already enabled the largest individual number of named scholarships at the university, and to honor his commitment to philanthropy at USU and within CHaSS, the college recently named its latest building project the Mehdi Heravi Global Teaching and Learning Center.

“If we don’t change, change will be forced upon us in this rapidly changing world, and I’m hoping that our students will be the changemakers. We’re not going to be actors of peace; we’re going to be authors of peace.” -Dr. Mehdi Heravi

All donations of $100 or more will receive a copy of Dr. Mehdi Heravi’s most recent publication, Comparative Political Systems.