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Mennonites and Brethren in Christ have historically upheld a peace position internationally that does not encourage the use of coercion or force to resolve disputes, seeking instead to find collaborative solutions that disputants voluntarily accept. While law is rightly viewed as an “operating system” that allows a diverse society to live together with minimal violence, law can often be viewed as an instrument of coercion and the use of the legal system a way of using power to “bend” someone else to your will.

Conrad Grebel University College is looking pleased to announce that Dr. Nancy Heisey will present the 2004 Bechtel Lectures in Anabaptist Mennonite Studies. Heisey is the President of Mennonite World Conference and is a professor at Eastern Mennonite University.

I love seeing the looks on people’s faces when I say ‘I live in a museum’. ‘In?’ Yes, in,

says Jennie Wiebe (BES ’99) who is a live-in host at Brubacher House Museum with her husband Colin (BASc in Mechanical Engineering, 2001; MASc in Biomechanics, 2003). Living at Brubacher House, situated on the University of Waterloo north campus, is as close to living on a farm as you can get when you’re in the city.

How can a work of art reflect 500 years of Mennonite community, persecution, migration, and settlement?

Metal artist, Jo-Anne Harder, has managed to express the Mennonite experience on 41 copper panels of a multilayered sculpture. This masterpiece was recently presented to Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo.

For many generations the Ontario Mennonite Bible School and Institute (OMBS & I) was the focal point of church leadership and theological education. Young people from across Canada and the northern United States found their way to First Mennonite Church in Kitchener and participated in a program that shaped their faith and trained them for leadership.

When we sat down to discuss long range planning, the same topic came up over and over again – it was time for Grebel to expand,

says Paul Penner, Operations Manager at Conrad Grebel University College.

Conrad Grebel University College will be hosting a Peace week with John Sloboda, on October 15-16, 2003.

John Sloboda is an internationally recognized peace activist, British Psychology Professor and Iraq Body Count website creator. Within these venues at Waterloo/Conrad Grebel, he will talk about his peace networking and activist work. He also assisted Carol Ann Weaver in supplying names for her composition in memory of Iraqi civilian victims, Piece of a Rock, which will be performed in some of these events listed below. Sloboda's bio appears below.

For four decades, fresh faced young adults eager to make a difference in the world have called Conrad Grebel home. This dynamic group of university students from across Canada, the USA, and the world, regularly demonstrate how “unity” fits into community.