Rethinking Peace Studies II: Memory was held on March 27 and 28th on the 20th floor of the bell tower of Riverside Church in NYC. Rethinking Peace Studies (RPS) is a collaboration between ICU, Rutgers University and the Japan ICU Foundation that seeks to critically rethink the discipline of peace studies.

RPS is comprised of a series of three seminars and one culminating conference held over a period of three years. The first seminar was held in November of 2014 on the ICU campus. The second seminar was just held in NYC and the third will be held in November of 2015 in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The final conference will be held in the fall of 2016.