This April 10th- 13th the Peace Centre is proud to present our second installment to Peace Week hosted last semester, Speakers for Peace: Reconciliation & Restoration

Joining us will be an amazing group of individuals who are all implicated in research or activism that touches upon our theme of Reconciliation & Restoration.

Adeela Arshad- Ayaz, Concordia University
Civic Engagement & Social Media

Louellyn White, Concordia University
Who gets to tell the stories of Native people ? Who gets to tell our loved ones stories when they are no longer here? Questions of right, ownership, ethical responsibility, truth telling, and protecting the sacred arise with the sharing of knowledge to the public.

Rachel Zellars, McGill University
The history of anti-Black discrimination in Canada, the transnational impact of anti-Black racism historically, and the importance of both implicit bias—and implicit bias training—for educators and professionals.

Shana Haines, Tidewater Community College, VA, USA
Decolonization pedagogy in post-secondary institutions as well as the impact of the anti-intellectual movement in the USA on policy and minority communities.

Malek Absisaab, McGill University
Women & Islam and “re-writing” the labour history of the Middle East

Adréanne Nadeau, Indigenous Affairs and Northern Development Canada
Truth and Reconciliation in education, reconciliation as a institutional strategy.

Jennifer Reynolds, Food Secure
She is the Institutional Food Program Manager, working strategically with institutions and the supply chain to increase local, sustainable, healthy food on the public plate.

Margaret Shaw, Violence Prevention Consultant