From Violence to Peace: Stories can Change the World: November 2020 - Face2Face Conversation

November 18/19, 2020

In a world struggling to achieve peace, 16 CMU peacebuilding students have been joined by 11 peacebuilding practitioners from the Philippines to create a space for mutual learning and exchange. Together these 27 student-practitioners are learning to build positive change in their lives and in their vastly differing communities. Together they are sharing stories and through them opening hearts and minds to new possibilities of peace in our world.

Join in a conversation with a panel drawn from this Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies class and engage stories of Indigenous, African, Filipino, and Canadian peacebuilders who are working to:

• Build trust, and share convictions and questions on peace and violence
• Bring together active practitioners with current peacebuilding theories
• Live into a unique CMU and the Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute (Philippines) partnership
• Open opportunities to resource, support and mentor one another

Enter into personal and collective stories of violence and peace, and experience the significance of storytelling as an essential tool of peacebuilding. Strengthen your own vision for how we can all make a difference in our world.

CMU's Face2Face events are a series of conversations with CMU faculty and special guests designed to engage the community on a wide variety of current events and issues at the intersection of faith and life.