Master of Art in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development

Building on over 25 years of experience in delivering undergraduate programs in conflict resolution, peace, and international development studies, CMU now offers a Master of Arts degree that blends these core themes, designed both for practitioners and those pursuing academic studies.

What distinguishes the MA in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development?

The program's subject matter and focus:

It bridges the fields of peacebuilding/conflict resolution studies and development/transformational justice studies.

It gives close attention to religious dimensions, theological foundations, and interfaith relations.

It promotes multiple levels of competencies. It is designed especially for practitioners and professionals seeking to be responsive to organisations and agencies' needs while retaining academic rigour and remaining attractive to those pursuing academic studies or careers.

Canadian Mennonite University is an innovative Christian university, rooted in the Anabaptist faith tradition, moved and transformed by the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Through teaching, research, and service, Canadian Mennonite University inspires and equips women and men for lives of service, leadership, and reconciliation in church and society.

At Canadian Mennonite University, 'service, leadership and reconciliation' are personal and communal learning outcomes encountered within academic, personal and interpersonal, theological, artistic, physical, and environmental contexts. Education involves "building understandings" in ways that are about relationships as much as knowledge, for the sake of enabling us to see, engage, and share in a world that is as wondrous as it is strained and that ever calls for our best care and innovative capacities.