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Take a Course with a Member of South Africa’s TRC at the new Canadian School of Peacebuilding

May 4, 2009

Each summer at least one courses will relate to restorative justice.
This year in 2009 take a course with a member of the South African
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Piet Meiring. Piet Meiring has
many similarities as Desmond Tutu. I recently had a student spend 4
months in South Africa meeting peace and justice folks. He returned and
said that Piet Meiring was the most inspirational person he heard. It
is a treat for us to have him come to Canada to teach the class,
Truthtelling and Peace: An Insider’s Perspective on the South Africa’s
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (July 6-10, 2009).

In the summer 2010 take a course with Howard Zehr, a pioneer and
“grandfather” of the restorative justice movement (June 29-July 2,
2010).

Check out our website to apply online and to see what other great
course we are offering: www.cmu.ca/csop
<http://www.cmu.ca/csop>.

Consider three things you can do to help shape this school:

1. APPLY for a course now. It only 2 months until the School starts.
Apply online (<http://www.cmu.ca/csop/cost.html>) or download our
brochure and application on our website (<http://www.cmu.ca/csop/files/ac10_csopbooklet.email.pdf>).

2. Forward this message to anyone you think may be interested – we want
to equip the international restorative justice movement. Please help
email this around the world.

3. Invite Restorative justice organizations to explore with us how they
can be no-cost sponsors of this school. We want to help build the
networks of the restorative justice movement. Contact us to see how you
can be a no-cost sponsor (contact Valerie Smith vsmith@cmu.ca
<mailto:vsmith@cmu.ca>, the Canadian School of Peacebuilding
Program Facilitator).
Thanks for your consideration and help.

Jarem Sawatsky
Director of the Canadian School of Peacebuilding
Assistant Professor in Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies
Canadian Mennonite University
500 Shaftesbury Blvd
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3P 2N2
(204) 487-3300 (w)
(204) 487-3858 (fax)

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