Women

“Walking with Our Sisters” comes to Winnipeg

by  //  Thursday, April 3, 2014 @ 4:47 PM  //  News

For those of you in the Winnipeg area, from now until April 12, the “Walking with our Sisters” art installation is on display at the Urban Shaman Gallery of Contemporary Aboriginal Art.  The gallery is located at 290 McDermot Avenue in Winnipeg and gallery hours are 10am – 8pm.  The gallery is closed Sundays and […]

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The Choreography of Resolution: Conflict, Movement, and Neuroscience

by  //  Thursday, February 20, 2014 @ 4:44 PM  //  Resources

The Choreography of Resolution: Conflict, Movement, and Neuroscience Edited by Michelle LeBaron (Instructor – CSOP 2011), Carrie MacLeod, Andrew Floyer Acland The Choreography of Resolution will revolutionize how mediators handle conflict resolution. Learning how neuroscience is proving what dancers have known for centuries – this book explores the links between the physical, mental, and psychological […]

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CSOP Participates in “Walking with our Sisters”

by  //  Wednesday, November 27, 2013 @ 10:24 AM  //  Media, Video

At the 2013 Canadian School of Peacebuilding, the "Human Rights and Indigenous Legal Traditions" class participated in making moccasin vamps for  "Walking with our Sisters,"  an art installation created to raise awareness of the hundreds of missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada.  Other CSOP participants were invited to become involved by walking alongside a […]

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CSOP Instructor Ouyporn Khuankaew – Activist, Peace Trainer, Role Model

by  //  Wednesday, January 16, 2013 @ 4:30 PM  //  News

January 11, 2013 –   Ouyporn Khuankaew travelled a long way to teach at the 2012 Canadian School for Peacebuilding (CSOP) at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) last summer – and she says that it was well worth her journey. Khuankaew is a Buddhist feminist peace trainer who has been working with activists in South and Southeast […]

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Piecework: A Woman’s Peace Theology

by  //  Saturday, December 1, 2012 @ 11:24 AM  //  Resources

By several authors including Wendy Kroeker A book of letters, conversations and reflections about peace from a feminist Mennonite perspective.  This 80-page book written by seven Mennonite women from across Canada. They vary in age and relate at different levels to the church. All share a background in theological studies. http://www.amazon.com/Piecework-A-Womens-Peace-Theology/dp/0968308015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292014752&sr=1-1

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