by admin // Wednesday, May 4, 2022 @ 9:07 AM // News, Profiles
By Nicolien Klassen-Wiebe CSOP course engages student’s passion for supporting refugees After graduating, Itiovie Ayeni wants to work in services supporting refugees, a cause about which she’s passionate. So, when she read the Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP) courses offered in 2021, she knew exactly which one she needed to take. She enrolled in Refugees […]
by admin // Wednesday, March 30, 2022 @ 11:53 AM // News, Profiles
By Nicolien Klassen-Wiebe CSOP student brings learning back to social services work When Reezwana Yadallee heard that Mary Jo Leddy was teaching a course at the 2021 Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP), she told herself she could not miss it. Leddy is the author of Radical Gratitude, a book that greatly impacted Yadallee when she […]
by admin // Tuesday, February 22, 2022 @ 9:33 PM // News, Profiles
by Nicolien Klassen-Wiebe CSOP course inspires student to navigate Indigenous and Christian identities Katie Anderson signed up for the Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP) because with the notoriously full schedule of a music student, she wanted to spread out her course load. But the class quickly became so much more than just getting another credit […]
by admin // Tuesday, April 28, 2020 @ 3:17 PM // News, Profiles
By Nicolien Klassen-Wiebe Organizational consultant plans to bring learning to Philippines For Ka Boyet Ongkiko, it was his work in the Philippines that brought him to the Canadian School of Peacebuilding. Ongkiko, 56, lives in Manila, where he works as a consultant for organizational development. “I try to help make the organization better and more […]
by admin // Wednesday, April 15, 2020 @ 6:34 PM // News, Profiles
By Nicolien Klassen-Wiebe CSOP student uses course to enrich youth work When Nicole Ternowesky first signed up for the Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP), she never imagined it would lead her to a summer job. Ternowesky, 20, is a third-year student from Brandon, MB, majoring in Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies at Canadian Mennonite University […]
Due to the ongoing travel restrictions and social distancing directives in place across North America in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, CMU’s Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP) is announcing the following changes to its June 2020 courses. The following two currently scheduled courses will be offered in online format only, via the Zoom platform: […]
by admin // Tuesday, March 24, 2020 @ 3:00 PM // News, Profiles
By Nicolien Klassen-Wiebe From injustice to peace CEO of human rights organization brings CSOP learning home When S.M. Rafiqul Islam received an email from the Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP) advertising their 2019 program, he signed up for not one, but two courses. Islam, 47, is from Bangladesh, where he is CEO of the Rural […]
by admin // Tuesday, March 10, 2020 @ 8:00 PM // News, Profiles
By Nicolien Klassen-Wiebe “This school certainly builds a peacebuilder” Minister inspired by the transformation CSOP created in herself and others Ha Na Park enrolled in the Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP) when she witnessed firsthand the transformative impact it can have on people’s lives. Park, 39, migrated from Korea to Canada in 2007 and now […]
by admin // Tuesday, February 25, 2020 @ 2:00 PM // News, Profiles
By Nicolien Klassen-Wiebe Minister uses CSOP knowledge to resource church community Bob Gilbert has been a minister in Manitoba for 24 years, and for the last several of those, the Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP) has played an important role in equipping him to serve his community. Gilbert, 66, is the minister at Augustine United […]
by admin // Tuesday, February 11, 2020 @ 2:57 PM // News, Profiles
By Nicolien Klassen-Wiebe Yazidi student finds hope in sharing stories at CSOP When Zina Hamu entered the classroom for Trauma, Peacebuilding, and Resilience – Level 1, the course she was taking at the Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP) last June, she walked in with a very personal perspective. Hamu, 23, is a survivor of the […]
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