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Indigenous and Muslim Perspectives on Peace and Education
Date: Thursday February 16th, 2003
Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (8:00 pm to 10:00 pm Atlantic Standard Time)
Meeting Format: Virtual
This event is the fourth in a series of panels exploring Indigenous-Muslim perspectives on common issues of importance to the contemporary world. This two-hour online event explores Indigenous and Muslim perspectives on peace education. How do Elders pass on teachings about peace? What are the key concepts involved?
Moderated by Dr. Katherine Bullock, this panel will feature Mohammed Abu-Nimer (School of International Service at the American University, Washington, DC.); Fatima Ahmed (Lakehead University); and Bonnie Jane Maracle (Wolf Clan, Mohawk Nation at Tyendinaga Territory, Traditional Teacher in Residence at UofT First Nations House).
Panellists
Mohammed Abu-Nimer is a Professor at the School of International Service at the American University, Washington, DC. He has conducted interreligious conflict resolution training and interfaith dialogue workshops in conflict areas around the world, such as in, Egypt, Northern Ireland, the Philippines (Mindanao), Israel, Palestine, Chad, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. He also served as a Senior Advisor to the KAICIID Dialogue Centre, an international organization that specialized in interreligious and intercultural dialogue. Abu-Nimer has been both author and an editor of more than 13 books on faith-based and interfaith peacebuilding (e.g. Nonviolence and Peacebuilding in Islamic Context: Bridging Ideals and Reality (2003). He is the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development.
Fatima Ahmed is examining the commonalities in how oral Islamic and Inuit traditions teach for peace for her MEd thesis; she hopes to have this thesis examined at Lakehead University during the spring/summer 2023 term. She spent two years teaching in Kangirsuk, which is one of the 14 Inuit villages that make up Nunavik. Her undergraduate degree was in peace and conflict studies. She's worked in the Canadian Arctic, in southern Africa, the South Pacific, and in many rural and urban areas within Canada and the US. She served as an adviser for HIV/AIDS civil organizations in Botswana and was the executive director for a non-profit youth centre in Inuvik. She has received numerous awards and scholarships for her efforts in support of peace and social justice, including the Combating Hate, Advancing Inclusion award from the Michaëlle Jean Foundation in Ottawa.
Iehnhotonkws Bonnie Jane Maracle is from the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Nation, Tyendinaga Territory, Ontario. She holds a B.A. in Indigenous Studies, Trent U; a B.Ed. & M.Ed., Queen’s U; and is a Ph.D. candidate in Indigenous Studies, Trent U. Bonnie Jane is a member of the Board of Directors for TTO Language & Culture Centre, Tyendinaga; the Ontario Native Literacy Coalition, Grand River; and is the Coordinator of the Mohawk Language Program at Kanatsiohareke Mohawk Community. She is presently employed at U of Toronto as the In-Residence Traditional Teacher at First Nations House, and is a sessional instructor at OISE-CTL and on-line instructor at the University of Victoria.
Moderator
Katherine Bullock (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is a lecturer about political Islam in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto at Mississauga. She is news anchor for Canadian Muslim News on Muslim Network TV. Her publications focus on Muslims in Canada, media representations of Muslims and Muslim perspectives on Basic Income. Bullock is also currently President of Compass Books, dedicated to publishing top-quality books about Islam and Muslims in English. She has co-founded and served on the board of several Muslim organizations in Canada, including The Federation of Muslim Women and The Tessellate Institute, a non-profit research institute. She has been board member and Vice President of the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies, and a board member and Chair of the Islamic Society of North America- Canada.
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