2021

CSOP Participant Profile – Itiovie Ayeni

by  //  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 […]

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CSOP Participant Profile – Reezwana Yadallee

by  //  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 […]

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CSOP Participant Profile – Katie Anderson

by  //  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 […]

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