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Click to listen to the story of Barbara Smith, as told by George Lakey at the CSOP Peacebuilders Banquet, June 23, 2011. Each week during the Canadian School of Peacebuilding we invite the general public to join our students for a lunch banquet of great local food and storytelling by one of the week’s […]
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Click to listen to the story of the hummingbird, as told by Karen Ridd at the CSOP Peacebuilders Banquet, June 29, 2012. Each week during the Canadian School of Peacebuilding we invite the general public to join our students for a lunch banquet of great local food and storytelling by one of the week’s […]
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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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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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By Elaine Enns and Ched Myers This volume offers three social-analytic models and nine profiles of contemporary practitioners of restorative justice and peacemaking. “People who work in conflict resolution rarely realize the potential restorative justice offers for addressing the justice dynamics inherent in conflict. Likewise, peacemakers may write off justice advocates as trouble-makers, while non-violent […]
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By Elaine Enns and Ched Myers This volume offers four N.T. studies on restorative justice and peacemaking (2 Cor 5-6; Mark 1-3; Matt 18; and Ephesians). “Exceedingly rare and a precious gift to church and world is Myers and Enns’ wondrous mixing of ravenous hunger for justice, patient and practical wisdom in restoring justice and […]
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Go to http://NVDatabase.swarthmore.edu to access a free global database of nonviolent actions. Campaigns are drawn from nearly every country in the world, in which people overthrew dictators, changed environmental policies, halted racist discrimination, fought for economic justice, established their religious freedom, changed sexist and other oppressive laws, established national independence, and defended their neighborhoods – […]
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