In solidarity with Standing Rock
Professor Jobb Arnold and I, along with our respective partners, recently travelled to Standing Rock Reservation, one hour south of Bismark, North Dakota, to offer our support for the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline and to bear witness. We camped at one of three camps for the supporters. They called the supporters "water protectors" because one of their main concerns is the potential for harm to the Missouri river, as the pipeline is to pass under it.
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Jonathan Dyck: Better living through graphic design
Jonathan Dyck (CMU ’08) took an unlikely path on his way to becoming a graphic designer.
Before graduating from the three-year Design Studies program at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Dyck earned an undergraduate degree in English from CMU as well as a Master of Arts (English and Film Studies) from the University of Alberta.
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Research opportunity: environmental justice in India
Funded projects are available for two skilled and hard-working undergraduate students interested in conducting research on environmental justice in India, with a focus on development decisions affecting water resources.
The successful candidates will join an international SSHRC-funded project involving an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Canada and India.
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Johanna Tse: Making a difference in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Johanna Tse wasn’t sure what she wanted to do after she graduated from CMU with her Bachelor of Business Administration degree this past April, but she knew she wanted to make a difference.
A few weeks after moving to Vancouver in July, Tse landed a job at Mission Possible, a Christian humanitarian agency in the city’s Downtown Eastside district that works with people challenged by homelessness and poverty.
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CARFMS 2016 Journal special edition – call for papers, deadline October 30, 2016
Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies invites presenters at the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) 2016 Conference held in Winnipeg, Manitoba to submit conference papers focused specifically on conflict resolution and international development. The 2016 conference "Freedom of Movement: Exploring a Path from Armed Conflict, Persecution, and Forced Migration to Conflict Resolution, Human Rights, and Development" was chaired and hosted by Dr. Stephanie Stobbe and the Conflict Resolution Studies Department of Menno Simons College (MSC), a College of the Canadian Mennonite University at the University of Winnipeg. MSC is also the home of Canada's premiere journal of peace research, Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies. In a spirit of collaboration and recognition of the centrality of refugees to peace and conflict studies, MSC will be devoting the 2017 volume of Peace Research to CARFMS papers.
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