By Gabrielle “Gaby” McInnes Courage will always be the passport when our old world disappears. I remind myself of this every time that I transition between types of learning. While education starts in the classroom, it only becomes ‘learning’ when we start to understand how and why it is relevant to the non-academic world. AsContinue reading “Building Boundaries for Peace work and Internships: Crafting a Bill of Rights”
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Neither Angels Nor Demons: Confronting the Dichotomy
By I.S. Hero. Villain. Friend. Enemy. Oppressed. Oppressor. As I reflect on my MPACS experience thus far, one of the main themes I keep coming back to is the ease with which human beings of all ages, communities, and walks of life are quick to succumb to binary thinking. The ways in which we communicateContinue reading “Neither Angels Nor Demons: Confronting the Dichotomy”
Life lessons learned from role-playing games- Or how I discovered Flowgame!
by Mathilda Wehling I love role-playing games. For a few months, I played a red-headed character named Freija in the pen-and-paper[1] Call of Cthulhu, and I loved playing K in Numenera, another pen-and-paper. As K, I could lit my skin on fire— pretty cool, huh? In a world that was so different from mine, IContinue reading “Life lessons learned from role-playing games- Or how I discovered Flowgame!”
Community Radio:Donations
Last fall, I spent 3 weeks north of Wakefield, Québec assembling a very interesting cabin for an architect from Ottawa. Every morning we would wake up at 5:30 and drive 40 minutes on dark, windy, bumpy gravel roads through Québec’s hills to the job site. We would work a 12-hour day without breaks and thenContinue reading “Community Radio:Donations”
From awareness raising to peer pressure: How I decided to register as a potential bone marrow donor
Each week, Peace and Conflict Studies students in the Building Civil Society course are asked to reflect on a key issue discussed in class. What I have found fascinating are the powerful and inspiring stories of why we are part of the MPACS community. This week we are continuing to learn stories of students reflecting onContinue reading “From awareness raising to peer pressure: How I decided to register as a potential bone marrow donor”
The AIDS Committee Of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo & Area
Each week, Peace and Conflict Studies students in the Building Civil Society course are asked to reflect on a key issue discussed in class. What I have found fascinating are the powerful and inspiring stories of why we are part of the MPACS community. This week, students reflected on civil society organization whose fundraising campaignContinue reading “The AIDS Committee Of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo & Area”
Reflection Journal:Peace Education in Primary and Secondary Schools
“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”- Martin Luther King Jr Reflection on the Ugandan Experience What would Ugandan lives be like collectively if peace education was infused into our education curriculum from pre-school to secondary schools? What it would be like if we made humans, girls,Continue reading “Reflection Journal:Peace Education in Primary and Secondary Schools”
Remembering the past, dishonoring the present
June 4th marks the thirty-one-year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre— one of the most horrendous acts of an authoritarian government in contemporary history. On June 4, 1989, university students and young adults stood together in Tiananmen Square in Beijing and across China to demonstrate for greater state accountability, constitutional reform, freedom, and democracy. InContinue reading “Remembering the past, dishonoring the present”
Part II Q&A: On Language, Power, Privilege, and Peacebuilding
This is Part II of the interview I conducted with Dr. Jennifer Ball, continuing the conversation on her experience studying women at the grassroots level in Uganda who are contributing to peacebuilding in ways that are not often recognized by peace researchers and practitioners at national and global levels. In this interview, Dr. Ball reflectsContinue reading “Part II Q&A: On Language, Power, Privilege, and Peacebuilding”
Missing discourses of COVID-19 and a wake up call for resilience
Societies in the form of enclosed carbonated water Within this aluminum or plastic structure, you will find water. All humans need water to survive. When opening a soda bottle or can, as the pressure is released, the liquid can not retain as much carbon dioxide and the excess bubbles are released. The carbon dioxide (bubbles)Continue reading “Missing discourses of COVID-19 and a wake up call for resilience”
Peace is Everybody's Business 