Peace leadership, then, is a process that involves group participation. Social roles and individual traits and characteristics of peace leadership include those individuals connected to pacifism and peace movements, for example, and who embody learnable traits such as emotional self-control, empathy, and propensity toward reconciliation (McIntyre and Green). Skills and practices for leading peace movements include relationship building, designing public narratives to facilitate action, engaging in strategies that challenge power imbalances, and organizing action (McIntyre and Green). Peace leaders work within groups, focusing on empowerment within a participative community-minded paradigm (McIntyre and Green). An integrated peace leadership model is one that that honors traditions of
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It is titled “Project Heart—Honouring Residential School Survivors” (Project Heart) and it describes an ongoing legacy of the age of European discovery. Specifically, one of the historical harms that grew out of European expansion is ongoing trauma related to the Doctrine of [Christian] Discovery that condoned Europeans taking other people’s land and resources and the Christian missions that aided that action. That is, the newly formed governments in both the U.S. and Canada, with the assistance of church officials, engaged in forced assimilation attempts at Indian residential, boarding, and mission schools, where many children were subjected to physical, sexual, emotional, and spiritual abuse. That is to say, the experience was traumatizing for many children and today the subsequent ongoing cycles of violence that exist in First Nations, Native American, and Alaska Native communities (as well as others), are an aftermath of the colonizing legacy . Project Heart portrays a healing ceremony that involves people publicly acknowledging the abuse and harm to which First Nations children were
It is titled “Project Heart—Honouring Residential School Survivors” (Project Heart) and it describes an ongoing legacy of the age of European discovery. Specifically, one of the historical harms that grew out of European expansion is ongoing trauma related to the Doctrine of [Christian] Discovery that condoned Europeans taking other people’s land and resources and the Christian missions that aided that action. That is, the newly formed governments in both the U.S. and Canada, with the assistance of church officials, engaged in forced assimilation attempts at Indian residential, boarding, and mission schools, where many children were subjected to physical, sexual, emotional, and spiritual abuse. That is to say, the experience was traumatizing for many children and today the subsequent ongoing cycles of violence that exist in First Nations, Native American, and Alaska Native communities (as well as others), are an aftermath of the colonizing legacy . Project Heart portrays a healing ceremony that involves people publicly acknowledging the abuse and harm to which First Nations children were