Improving access to financial services for Indigenous Peoples
Dr. Jerry Buckland’s interest in financial inclusion was first sparked when he was conducting agricultural research in Bangladesh in the late 1980s. He was curious about the benefits and cost comparisons between microcredit and agricultural approaches to poverty reduction.
Today, his interest and research in financial inclusion continues. During his recent six-month sabbatical, he was part of a research team examining access to mainstream financial services in the rural Fisher River Cree Nation (FRCN) and among Indigenous People in inner-city Winnipeg. The resulting report, Financial Inclusion and Manitoba Indigenous People: Results from an Urban and Rural Case Study, was published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba.
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Red Rising Magazine: Presence, emotion, and sovereignty
By Dr. Jobb Arnold, Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution Studies
I arrived in Winnipeg in January 2015 to find a great amount of hope as well as despair. As a scholar interested in the cultural dynamics of social change and conflict, the paradoxes of transitional times were clearly in full effect. As students of conflict will recognize, moments of uncertainty are often characterized by the tension between hope for new and constructive changes to untenable conditions, and the threat that old, divisiveness patterns of conflict will worsen. I arrived as Nancy McDonald’s now infamous Maclean’s Magazine article on Winnipeg’s racism problem was published and conversations around the city’s divisions abounded. Luckily, I found Meet Me at the Bell Tower, where I learned that the hope and community momentum often associated with Idle No More has taken root and is flourishing in remarkably positive and interdependent networks. In some circles these spaces of mutual care, ceremony, and resistance are collectively referred to as The Village.
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Service learning
Practicum a foundational experience for MSC alumnus
Joe Danis (MSC '01, IDS 3-yr) refers to his practicum as one of the most significant moments of his life.
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Welcoming newcomers and refugees
MSC is pleased to award the second Distinguished Alumnus Award to Abdikheir Ahmed (MSC ’07, IDS 4-year). The award honours graduates who exemplify the goals and values of MSC in their life and work.
Since coming to Winnipeg from Kenya as a refugee in 2003, Ahmed has worked diligently to help newcomers and refugees adjust to life in the city.
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Traveling through books and learning
Why are some countries more developed than others? What structures or systems are in place that facilitate or hinder a country’s development?
Questions like these prompted Aminata Kane to pursue International Development Studies (IDS) at MSC.
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