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University of New Brunswick Peace and Friendship Treaty Days Colloquium

“Education for Reconciliation: What Role Can Universities Play in Building Peace and Friendship?”

Wu Centre, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

October 27-28, 2016

Registration is now open for the colloquium “Education for Reconciliation: What Role can Universities Play in Building Peace and Friendship”, part of UNB’s second annual Peace and Friendship Treaty Days. You can register at https://www.regonline.com/PeaceTreaty2016. In addition to the colloquium, Peace and Friendship Treaty Days will have a number of events between October 26 and 28 celebrating Indigenous culture and the Peace and Friendship Treaties signed by the British Crown and the Wabanaki peoples of the Maritimes, including public lectures by Marie Wilson, a Commissioner on Canada’s Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, on October 27 and Sákéj Henderson, long-time Research Director of the Native Law Centre of Canada at the University of Saskatchewan, on October 26. For more information on Peace and Friendship Treaty Days 2016, you can go to http://www.unb.ca/conferences/peaceandfriendshiptreatydays/.

The colloquium will bring together emerging and established academics and professionals from across Canada to discuss the 94 Calls to Action of Canada’s Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in particular those calling on universities and other post-secondary education institutions to make changes to their curricula and their institutions more broadly that will promote reconciliation. Topics of discussion will include:

• The value in building the knowledge of all students about Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous cultural, legal, and governance traditions, and the history of Crown-Indigenous relations, including treaty-making;

• The value to Indigenous individuals, Indigenous communities, and all of society of increasing the number of Indigenous students who enter post-secondary education and succeed;

• How post-secondary institutions can build a welcoming environment for Indigenous students and provide them with the support they need to remain in post-secondary education and succeed;

• The roles of Indigenous communities and community-controlled institutions in contributing to a post-secondary educational system that encourages reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and the success of Indigenous students; and

• The obligations of professional bodies, university and college quality assurance and regulatory bodies, and governments to promote a post-secondary educational system in which Indigenous history, cultures, and perspectives are respected, taught, and understood by students, faculty and staff.