We might remember that whatever else divides us as human beings, we all need air and water; and virtually all of our hearts rejoice at the sounds of spring.
These commonalities may save us when the visions of race, class, gender, ethnicity or sexuality leave us deeply suspicious of each other.
Emphasizing what we share is a particular gift of spiritual social activists.
Roger S Gottlieb
welcome
Imagine a group of people who come from differing countries and cultures,people of differing generations, faiths and worldviews. And imagine that some of these people - instead of being divided by their differences - would come together, gathered by a common passion for building peace and seeking justice, and by compassion for the needs of all humanity. Imagine what could happen if these people had the chance to be together, learning from wise teachers, sharing conversations and being shaped by one another. This is the vision we have for the Canadian School for Peacebuilding.
The Canadian School of Peacebuilding (CSOP), an institute of Canadian Mennonite University, offers a selection of 5-day courses each June. Courses can be taken for professional or personal development or for academic credit. We offer courses from local, national and international peacebuilders, to serve practitioners, professionals, activists, students, non-governmental organizations and faith-based groups engaged in peacebuilding. We seek to form a collaborative learning community by nurturing and equipping peacebuilders and exposing them to some of the most significant, emerging ideas and teachers in the field.
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), through Menno Simons College (our campus at the University of Winnipeg) and through our Shaftesbury Campus, is said to offer the world’s largest undergraduate program in peace and conflict studies. Drawing from this area of strength, and from a deep commitment, rooted in Christian-Mennonite history and theology, to respectfully practice peace in difficult places in the world, the Canadian School of Peacebuilding offers opportunity for dissimilarly rooted peacebuilders from around the world to come together to learn, to share and to practice peace.
The third annual Canadian School of Peacebuilding will be held at CMU in Winnipeg, June 6 – 24, 2011. Three or four courses will be offered concurrently each week.
We hope you will join us.
Valerie Smith and Jarem Sawatsky
Co-Directors
Please click here for more information about Canadian Mennonite University’s Peacebuilding Initiatives.
Canadian School of Peacebuilding extends sincere thanks to our collaborating partners, sponsors and cooperating
academic programs:
Partners
Mennonite Central Committee, Canada
Resolution Skills Centre, the training division of Mediation Services
Sponsors
Africa Peace and Conflict Network
Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace (Peace Café)
Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation
CAUSE Canada
Center for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Rutgers University
Centre de ressources sur la non-violence
Conscience Canada
Council of Canadians: Acting for Social Justice
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Institute for Community Peacebuilding
Institute for Theology and the Church
La Maison de l'Amitié Student Residence
Mediation Northern Ireland
Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies
Peace and Justice Studies Association
Physicians for Global Survival
Project Peacemakers
The Transitional Foundation for Peace and Future Research
Social Justice Committee
World Peace Prayer Society
World without Wars and Violence
Cooperating Academic Programs
Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University
Kansas Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (KIPCOR)
Lion and Lamb Peace Arts Center, Bluffton University
Marquette University Center for Peacemaking
Martin Luther King Institute for Research and Social Action
Polytechnic University of Nicaragua (UPOLI)
Peace and Conflict Studies, Bluffton University
Peace and Conflict Studies Program, University of Colorado at Boulder
Peace and Justice Studies Program, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Peace Studies Program, University of New England, New South Wales, Australia
Please click here for more information about our sponsors.
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