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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Gender equality standards in music
By Jesse Matas Over the past decade there has been a movement towards gender equality in music. Recently, standards and official organizations have started to appear. What began as an idea that “we need to see more women on stage” has now started taking official shape. Organizations like #bookmorewomen [1], Keychange [2], and databases likeContinue reading ” Gender equality standards in music”
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”
Arab Spring countries and speech freedom repression pandemic
This is not the COVID-19 tracking map. This is the Global Press Freedom map by the Freedom House. The deterioration of speech freedom is not less contagious than the COVID-19 pandemic. The Arab spring is a term used to refer to the wave of the revolution sparked in 2011 against dictatorship regimes in the Middle East and Africa. CountriesContinue reading “Arab Spring countries and speech freedom repression pandemic”
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”
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”
Part I Q&A:Women and Peacebuilding in Uganda,Interview with Dr. Jennifer Ball
The role of women is not fully centered in the research on conflicts and peacebuilding in different contexts. Even when they are centered, more often than not, women are constructed as benevolent perpetual victims of violence. The research on peacebuilding tends to largely focus on middle-class women occupying powerful political positions, and rarely on theContinue reading “Part I Q&A:Women and Peacebuilding in Uganda,Interview with Dr. Jennifer Ball”
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”
I am Sorry Immanuel, but I Can’t Foresee the Future!
I never had to consider a lot of ethics in my research. Of course, I tried to avoid academic misconduct, but I never had to think about informed consent when I downloaded pages over pages about Peacekeeping Missions in DRK from the United Nations homepage. Or about respecting the autonomy of the census-data I tabulatedContinue reading “I am Sorry Immanuel, but I Can’t Foresee the Future!”
Peace is Everybody's Business 