Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies 2016 Conference
Our Responsibility to Refugees and Immigrants in Addressing Conflict Resolution, Human Rights, and Development in Response to Armed Conflict, Persecution, and Displacement
Menno Simons College's Conflict Resolution Studies department is pleased to be hosting Freedom of Movement, the 9th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), which will be chaired by Dr. Stephanie Stobbe, Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution Studies at MSC.
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Resolving inner conflict
Dr. Paul Redekop hopes people will become their own best friends.
In his new book, Inner Peace Through Conflict Transformation, Redekop provides readers with tools to resolve their own inner conflicts.
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Film by alumnus included in Canadian Museum for Human Rights
A video filmed by a Canadian Mennonite University alumnus is featured in the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg.
Brad Leitch (formerly Langendoen) created the video, titled “Aras Abid Akram: A Profile of Courage,” as part of his course work while studying Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies (PACTS) at CMU. He filmed it during a six-week internship with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in Iraq in 2010.
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CMU/MSC-affiliated research project awarded $2.6M
Canadian universities and project partners awarded $2.6M in funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Government of Canada’s Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD).
Principal investigators are Dr. Pashupati Chaudhary from Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD), Dr. Ram Rana from Anamolbiu Private Limited, and Manish N. Raizada from the University of Guelph.
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Creating positive change
When Barbara Bucheli graduated from high school, she knew she wanted to study world issues and learn about ways local, national, and global problems are being addressed.
“I wanted to be educated on effective actions to prevent, solve, or reduce problems we face,” she says. “And I wanted to find where my skills and passion fit in the bigger picture of future local, national, and global development and improvement.”
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