About the League

Our Mission

The Reconciliation League is an association of colleges and universities committed to bringing together and empowering students to become leaders in building bridges across deep difference.

What the League does

Creating cohorts of bridge builders

In service of its mission,

The League has created fully funded Reconciliation Fellowships that enable cohorts of students from League schools to come together for an immersive program designed around the principles of secular ecumenism and cosmopolitan conversation.

The goal is not to erase difference or to produce consensus where there can be none, but rather to develop a Reconciliation Corps of Fellows with the habits, skills, courage, and discipline required for sustained dialogue in spite of divisions.

Having completed the program,

the Reconciliation Fellows return to their campuses and communities as practitioners of reconciliation who have the resilience to keep advancing the League’s ideals even in the face of serious challenges.

And, as lifelong members of a connected Reconciliation Corps, they continue the work of fostering understanding where there is division, engaging in serious conversation where there is distrust, and helping to renew our civic capacity to live productively together.

Today’s fractures are real.

Our belief is that with the right preparation at the right moment in their lives, Reconciliation Fellows will develop the tools needed to become the leaders who can help the world to mend these fractures.

Fellows greeting one another before a working session

The goal is not to erase difference or to produce consensus where there can be none, but to cultivate the habits, skills, courage, and discipline required for sustained engagement in spite of it.

From the League’s mission

The Mission Shapes The Reconciliation League

Read how the mission drove the creation of the League, or explore the fellowship program that turns this mission into practice.