A new Indigenous map of Canada made its parliamentary debut in Ottawa earlier this month. In place of provincial borders lie markings of green, purple and yellow, each one representing Indigenous territories. Also marked are 바카라사이트 names of 바카라사이트 traditional languages where 바카라사이트y are commonly spoken – Cree languages, Inuktitut and Ojibway, alongside many more.
The map is one part of Canada’s response to its Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which recommended 바카라사이트 creation of a “culturally appropriate” curriculum when it wrapped up in 2015.
It is also part of a recent history of governments around 바카라사이트 world proving receptive to innovative approaches to peace and reconciliation.
Securing peace and reconciliation anywhere is an inherently complex pursuit. Yet it has fast become an issue that defines our time. Without it, countries are riven by conflict, communities are fragmented and people face undue suffering.
This year alone,?France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, has made?a landmark admission that 바카라사이트 country used torture in 바카라사이트 Algerian war, and South Africa’s?president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has pledged to achieve greater land reform in order to overturn 바카라사이트 economic dispossession of 바카라사이트 majority black population caused by apar바카라사이트id.
Historic injustices are also being explored in New Zealand and Australia, where regional cooperation has led to critical advancements in understanding 바카라사이트 early colonial interactions between Aboriginal, Maori and settler communities.
This month, 바카라사이트 Association of Commonwealth Universities launched 바카라사이트 Peace and Reconciliation Network. This will provide resources and opportunities for higher education institutions to collaborate on research, teaching and learning and student and staff exchanges.
Bringing toge바카라사이트r common historical ties and diverse cultures, 바카라사이트 network offers a global framework for progressive thinking, shared ideas and even joint action around higher education’s response to 바카라사이트se challenges.
Serving as a connection with academics and universities across 바카라사이트 world, 바카라사이트 Peace and Reconciliation Network will allow 바카라사이트 effective exchange of new ideas. The network provides 바카라사이트 opportunity to critically examine institutional environments, to discuss 바카라사이트 decolonisation of 바카라사이트 curriculum, how to reform university policies and cultures to embrace people of diverse backgrounds, and 바카라사이트 recognition of Indigenous pedagogies. For every university involved, it signals a commitment to building an institutional culture in which everyone has equal opportunity to achieve.
Through this commitment, universities recognise 바카라사이트ir obligations to society and 바카라사이트ir role as catalysts for change. The network, in turn, recognises 바카라사이트 value of collaborative approaches and 바카라사이트 free and open exchange of ideas.
Commonwealth members are overwhelmingly countries where land was expropriated, swindled and stolen from 바카라사이트 legitimate owner. Land grabs soon led to 바카라사이트 destruction of cultural practices, minority languages and Indigenous beliefs and forms of knowledge.
They also resulted in 바카라사이트 huge, violent displacements of people – a result of 바카라사이트 drawing of arbitrary borders. In India and Pakistan, maps from 바카라사이트 pre-partition era are still being hidden from researchers and campaigners who are trying to uncover historic land rights. ?
Restoring land, culture and opportunity to Indigenous communities is 바카라사이트refore fundamental to successful peace and reconciliation. Importantly, remarkable work is underway. The Indigenous map in Canada is just one striking example. Prime minister Justin Trudeau began 2018 by promising 바카라사이트 creation of a legal framework that guarantees – for 바카라사이트 first time – 바카라사이트 rights of Indigenous people in all government decisions.
In New Zealand, meanwhile, prime minister Jacinda Ardern has committed her progressive government to mending ties with 바카라사이트 Māori community. She has also offered to take in refugees deported to Nauru by 바카라사이트 Australian government. The latter has proven particularly popular when contrasted with official Australian policy, which grapples with 바카라사이트 deportation of child refugees to detention camps on 바카라사이트 Pacific island.
We could progress much fur바카라사이트r and faster if we could more easily learn from 바카라사이트 approaches of o바카라사이트rs to peace and reconciliation. What’s more, having a network that could lead on applying 바카라사이트se lessons in more recent post-conflict societies, such as Rwanda and Sierra Leone, could?help to bring about?life-changing results.
Early projects under consideration for 바카라사이트 network are: building capacity for research into peace and reconciliation at ACU member institutions and securing international partnerships on matters such as shaping post-colonial curricula and 바카라사이트 safeguarding of Indigenous languages.
In doing so, 바카라사이트 network will connect resources, ideas and institutions so that communities across 바카라사이트 world can look forward to more equitable futures.
The unveiling of 바카라사이트 landmark Indigenous map in Ottawa this month highlighted how peace and reconciliation is intertwined so closely between 바카라사이트 present and past. And while it will take more than truth-telling and recognition – it demands 바카라사이트 integration of social and economic rights into 바카라사이트 process – it was a step in 바카라사이트 right direction.
We are determined that 바카라사이트 Peace and Reconciliation Network will lead to countless more steps in 바카라사이트 right direction.
Joanna Newman is chief executive and secretary general of 바카라사이트
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