Budget 2024: A Call for Peacebuilding
By Samantha Coelho The release of the federal budget on April 16 coincided with my three-month milestone at MCC in the Peace and Justice Office in Ottawa. I was thrust…
Anabaptist advocacy for peace, justice and human dignity
By Samantha Coelho The release of the federal budget on April 16 coincided with my three-month milestone at MCC in the Peace and Justice Office in Ottawa. I was thrust…
In February MCC responded to the Government of Canada’s call for pre-budget submissions. This is a chance for Canadian individuals and organizations to give input and recommendations for how they…
Scenes and stories of peacebuilding from Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. Photos and stories courtesy of Rebekah Sears. Early in 2023 I was part of a small…
Article and feature photo by Annalee Giesbrecht. The Canadian government is currently weighing how best to respond to the overwhelming security crisis in Haiti. Convening and sending an incident group…
Peace Sunday falls on November 6, 2022. This year, our Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Peace Sunday materials centre on the theme “peace is more than a wish.” In our work…
by Ken Grahlman When was the last time you took the opportunity to have a break? I feel like a break is something we could all use right now because…
by Kirsten Mosey “The world is over-armed and peace is underfunded” – Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary-General of the United Nations. Ban Ki-moon’s famous quote adorns the walls outside the General…
by Rick Cober Bauman I remember a vignette I heard long ago at a peace conference. “Two people are in the front seat of a car driving fast. The driver…