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Longing and Lament:
Interfaith Dialogue on Peace and Justice for Israelis and Palestinians. Many Manitobans care deeply about the ongoing conflict and lack of security and justice in Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, and the broader Middle East region. This dialogue workshop offers community members from various faith traditions an opportunity to engage in meaningful discussion about challenging questions. More.
New Project Aims to Build Relationships, Understanding Between Winnipeg's Inner City Youth
With assistance from the CMU Institute for Community Peacebuilding, six Winnipeg groups have combined to create a new effort to help improve relationships between youth from established, Aboriginal, and newcomer groups in Winnipeg's inner city. More
CMU, Local Groups Team Up to Help Aboriginal,
Newcomer Youth
CMU and local Aboriginal and refugee organizations
are teaming up to create the Peace Alliance
With Aboriginal and Newcomer Youth to help youth
from aboriginal, newcomer and mainstream groups
in the city’s core area find ways to develop
peaceful relationships. More
Institute Gets $120,000 Grant from Winnipeg Foundation
Working with newcomers to Winnipeg and addressing issues
related to young offenders—these are things that will
be possible now that the CMU Institute for Community
Peacebuilding has received a $120,000 three-year grant
from the Winnipeg Foundation. More
The Institute for Community Peacebuilding: What
we did in 2006
What has the ICP been up to since it was created? Since
its inception, it has planned and implemented a Congo
Peacebuilding Initiative; engaged in more than 20 educational
and promotional speaking and writing opportunities;
planned and implemented six community education events
and forums; and participated in the early development
of four major projects. More
The Institute for Community Peacebuilding: A look
to the Future
What is the ICP planning to do in the future? Community
education, an inner-city youth project, work in the
area of church conflict and developing new partnerships
are just a few of things we are looking at. More. Also,
on the ICP home page, put the following near the bottom
after the paragraph beginning Read an Introduction to
the Institute for Community Peacebuilding. Read about
what the Institute did in 2006. Read what the Institute
is planning to do in 2007 and beyond.
Election Report Tells of Hope, Needs in Congo
An old man, his hand quivering as he voted—for Winnipegger
Joel Marion, that summed up the importance and meaning
of the July election in Congo. Marion was one of 12
people who shared about their experience in that country
at the Sept. 16 Congo Election Report. More
Congo Election Day Observations
CMU staff, students and graduates came away from their
election-monitoring experience in Congo believing that
everyone worked hard to make the election free and fair,
and that the church played an important role in the
success of the election. More
CMU Staff, Students to Monitor Congo Election
Seven staff, students and graduates from Canadian Mennonite
University are off to the Congo July 24 to help monitor
elections in that country. More
Congregational conflict as a gift title of May
9 workshop
Every faithful, healthy church has been blessed with
differences. These differences can enrich lives and
ministries, or lead to destructive conflict. Helping
churches with conflict is the goal of Conflict: A Gift
to the Church, a May 9 workshop for lay leaders and
clergy. More
Peacemakers need to be prepared to "go the distance"
in places like Iraq
Peacemakers must be willing to make the same sacrifices
as those who are willing to go to war, peace activists
Gene Stoltzfus and Karen Ridd told a Feb. 23 forum in
Winnipeg about CPT in Iraq. More
Did Captured Christian Peacemakers Teams Members
Ask For Trouble In Going To Iraq?
At the time of this writing, four Christian Peacemakers
Teams (CPT) members are still being held hostage in
Iraq. Why would they voluntarily place themselves in
such dangerous situations? Did they not understand the
risk they were taking? These, and other questions, will
be explored at Alternatives to Violence, a February
23 public forum sponsored by CMU's Institute for Community
Peacebuilding. Feature speaker is Gene Stoltzfus, founder
of CPT. More
Long-time Peace Worker Named Director of New Institute
for Community Peacebuilding
For David Pankratz, being named Director of CMU's new
Institute for Community Peacebuilding is a dream come
true. The Institute, which begins operations January
2, is also the result of many years of dreaming on the
part of CMU staff and supporters. More
Aid Groups Worried about Military Involvement
in Humanitarian Work
Should the military do humanitarian work in conflict
situations? The answer is no, according to representatives
from aid groups gathered for Guns, Food and Medicine,
an October 31 forum sponsored by Winnipeg's Menno Simons
College and Mennonite Central Committee. More
