by admin // Wednesday, April 11, 2018 @ 8:05 AM // News, Profiles
by Alison Ralph “It’s like home,” at the CSOP, says inter-faith peacebuilder from Pakistan When Fareeha Iftikhar’s plane landed in Winnipeg last June, she says it felt like coming home. Although she currently lives in Pakistan, Iftikhar was born in Abbotsford, BC. It was her desire to study at the Canadian School of Peacebuilding that […]
by admin // Wednesday, April 4, 2018 @ 8:05 AM // News, Profiles
by Alison Ralph Peacebuilder bridges gap between undergrad and master’s studies at the CSOP Growing up Ashley Hayward was told that she could do anything. It was a positive message, but an overwhelming one as well, with enough options and opportunities to get lost in. She knew she had to find something that fit with […]
by admin // Tuesday, February 27, 2018 @ 3:16 PM // News, Profiles
by Aaron Epp Hutterites learn about the Islamic faith at Canadian School of Peacebuilding ‘This is my effort to bring real knowledge… to my community,’ teacher says When you engage in interfaith dialogue, you can end up finding strong similarities between what you and your dialogue partners believe. That’s one of the biggest things Tirzah […]
by admin // Tuesday, February 13, 2018 @ 3:18 PM // News, Profiles
by Aaron Epp ‘Everybody is accepted’ at the CSOP, Jordanian peacebuilder finds Duha Alassaf is passionate about peacebuilding. “Peacebuilding is a subject that should be mandatory in schools and universities for how to deal with others,” she said. “If people only knew peacebuilding, we wouldn’t have these conflicts and wars.” It’s this interest that led […]
by admin // Tuesday, January 23, 2018 @ 3:58 PM // News, Profiles
by Aaron Epp Senator finds strong spirituality, support at Canadian School of Peacebuilding One of Canada’s newest senators is an alumnus of CMU’s Canadian School of Peacebuilding. Dr. Mary Jane McCallum, who was appointed late last year as one of two independent senators to fill vacancies in the Senate, studied at the CSOP in 2016 […]
by admin // Wednesday, April 19, 2017 @ 1:01 AM // News, Profiles
By Aaron Epp New Zealand nun starts her sabbatical at the Canadian School of Peacebuilding Ask Bridget Crisp what the best part of being a nun is and she’s quick to answer. “It’s never boring,” said Crisp, 46, who is a Sister of Mercy in Auckland, New Zealand. “People’s perception is that religious life is […]
by admin // Wednesday, April 12, 2017 @ 8:10 AM // News, Profiles
By Beth Downey Sawatzky On Fear, Perspective and Peace Hyun Hee Kim, age 32, is a student at Canadian Mennonite University, completing pre-Master's requirements in Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies (PACTS). What you would never guess after an ordinary conversation with her, is that this is in itself is a miracle. Kim was born in […]
by admin // Tuesday, February 21, 2017 @ 8:19 AM // News, Profiles
By Beth Downey Sawatzky Lessons in Responsibility Sometimes, when you discover a good thing, one taste is just not enough. For Erin Yantzi, a third-year student at the University of Waterloo, transferable degree credit from a CSOP intensive was just too good not to come back for seconds. The double Anthropology and Peace Studies major […]
by admin // Thursday, February 9, 2017 @ 7:34 AM // News, Profiles
By Beth Downey Sawatzky On Staying Strong Marian De Couto, a Toronto native, lived for several years’ time in the city's chapter of L'Arche—a mixed community of people with various disabilities, as well as people generally considered “able”—exploring what she calls “applied solidarity.” This was the same interest that ultimately drew her to Christian Peacemaker […]
by admin // Tuesday, March 8, 2016 @ 10:51 AM // News, Profiles
By Aaron Epp CSOP helps parliamentary aid from Nigeria advocate for women’s rights Violence in the home, sexual harassment at school and work, rape and defilement, enforcement of gender-biased laws, harmful traditional practices – these are some of the things women in Nigeria face. Through her role as an assistant in Nigeria’s parliament, Folake Aderibigbe […]
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