{"id":6607,"date":"2017-10-04T10:18:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T15:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/?p=6607"},"modified":"2017-10-04T10:18:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T15:18:27","slug":"menno-simons-college-to-host-public-lecture-on-interfaith-peacebuilding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2017\/menno-simons-college-to-host-public-lecture-on-interfaith-peacebuilding\/","title":{"rendered":"Menno Simons College to host public lecture on interfaith peacebuilding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Menno Simons College is pleased to present Dr. Jan Bender Shetler in a public lecture on interfaith relations in the city of Harar, Ethiopia, later this month.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Bender Shetler of Gsohen College will speak at the University of Winnipeg on October 19.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The result of an eight-year collaborative research project between Dr. Bender Shetler and fellow academic Dawit Yehualashet, the lecture explores how Muslims and Christians have been able to maintain relatively peaceful relations in Harar over the last century, despite close and potentially volatile interaction.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe like to examine conflict, to understand more deeply what happened and why, but spend less effort to understand peaceful relations,\u201d says Neil Funk-Unrau, Associate Dean of Menno Simons College. \u201cIn a time of rising interreligious tensions, it is more important than ever to see how centuries of peaceful Christian-Muslim relations can be possible and sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the course of the lecture, Dr. Bender Shetler, Professor of History at Goshen College in Indiana, and Chair of the History and Political Science Department, plans to show how this peace was achieved, despite the odds, why it was effective, and how these insights might be applied to our own context.<\/p>\n

The lecture will take place at 7:00 PM on October 19, in the University of Winnipeg\u2019s Convocation Hall.<\/p>\n

For more information about the lecture, visit <\/em>mscollege.ca\/shetlerlecture<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>or contact Neil Funk-Unrah at\u00a0n.funk-unrau@uwinnipeg.ca<\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Menno Simons College is a program of Canadian Mennonite University, affiliated with the University of Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

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About CMU
\n<\/strong>A Christian university in the Anabaptist tradition, CMU\u2019s Shaftesbury campus offers undergraduate degrees in arts, business, humanities, music, sciences, and social sciences, as well as\u00a0graduate degrees in theology,\u00a0ministry, peacebuilding and collaborative development, and an MBA. CMU has over 800 full-time equivalent\u00a0students, including those enrolled in degree programs at the Shaftesbury and Menno Simons College campuses and in its Outtatown certificate program.<\/em><\/p>\n

For information about CMU, visit: <\/em>www.cmu.ca<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

For additional information, please contact:<\/p>\n

Kevin Kilbrei, Director of Communications & Marketing
\nkkilbrei@cmu.ca; 204.487.3300 Ext. 621
\nCanadian Mennonite University
\n500 Shaftesbury Blvd., Winnipeg, MB R3P 2N2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Menno Simons College is pleased to present Dr. Jan Bender Shetler in a public lecture on interfaith relations in the city of Harar, Ethiopia, later this month. The result of an eight-year collaborative research project between Dr. Bender Shetler and fellow academic Dawit Yehualashet, the lecture explores how Muslims and Christians have been able to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[826,882,279,49,506],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6616,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions\/6616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}