Schroeder, Steven

Dr. Schroeder is an Associate Professor at the University of Fraser Valley within the Department of History. He is also the Teaching Chair in the Peace and Conflict Studies program.  Dr. Schroeder additionally coordinates the community engagement component of the peace program, in which Peace and Conflict Studies students apply peacebuilding skills in conflict transformation and reconciliatory work in the community.

With a regional interest in modern Europe, particularly in Germany, Dr. Schroeder’s research focuses on the root causes of oppression and conflict, and the attempts to establish durable peace in the aftermath of violence and war.

His book (2013), “To Forget it All and Begin Anew: Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944-1954,” explores the motivations and actions of individuals and NGOs from Germany and abroad, who during the first decade after the Second World War laboured to establish peaceful relations between the German people and their wartime victims and enemies.