A distinguishing mark of the Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP) has been creating space for Aboriginal voices. Each year the CSOP has offered at least one course with a focus on Aboriginal issues of peace and justice. In order to encourage Aboriginal participation at the CSOP and to help make the CSOP a gathering place […]
by admin // Tuesday, February 19, 2013 @ 3:54 PM // Audio, Media
Take a few minutes to listen to this beautiful song, written by Anna Eileen and inspired by her week at the CSOP in 2012. Hummingbird Singer/Songwriter: Anna Eileen Mix Engineer: Jason Phillips 'Hummingbird, your wings are torched from dropping water on the fire It keeps blazing while you work and the elephants close their eyes […]
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 […]
December 5, 2012 CMU Student Schadrack Mutabazi Maintains Hope for Stability and Reconciliation in Africa’s Congo Schadrack Mutabazi is a Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) student who is doing his best to concentrate on his studies and embrace his family’s new Canadian home. It’s an everyday challenge for him because even oceans can’t separate him from […]
by admin // Saturday, December 1, 2012 @ 8:42 PM // Resources
by Jarem Sawatsky What is healing justice? Who practices it? What does it look like? In this international study on healing justice, Jarem Sawatsky examines traditional communities including Hollow Water — an Aboriginal and Metis community in Canada renowned for their healing work in the face of 80% sexual abuse rates; the Iona Community — […]
by admin // Saturday, December 1, 2012 @ 2:39 PM // Resources
First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law: Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives Edited by Catherine Bell and Val Napoleon First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law explores First Nations perspectives on cultural heritage and issues of reform within and beyond Western law. Written in collaboration with First Nation partners, it contains seven case studies featuring indigenous concepts, legal […]
by admin // Saturday, December 1, 2012 @ 1:44 PM // Resources
By assorted authors including Armand Volkas, edited by David Johnson and Renee Emunah The second edition of Current Approaches in Drama Therapy offers a revised and updated comprehensive compilation of the primary drama therapy methods and models that are being utilized and taught in the United States and Canada, including four new approaches… A distinct […]
by admin // 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
by admin // Saturday, December 1, 2012 @ 11:23 AM // Resources
By Jarem Sawatsky Drawing on the imaginations of some leading peace and restorative justice practitioners, Justpeace Ethics identifies components of a justpeace imagination—the basis of an alternative ethics, where the end is touched with each step. In this simple companion to justpeace ethics, Jarem Sawatsky helps those struggling with how to respond to conflict and […]
by admin // Saturday, December 1, 2012 @ 10:36 AM // Resources
By Ched Myers and Matthew Colwell The principle of hospitality and the commandment to welcome the stranger are among the most consistent themes of the Bible. How does that apply to the question of undocumented immigrants in our own country? In alternating chapters Myers examines the biblical dimensions of hospitality, sanctuary, the crossing of borders, […]
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