This chapter pushes the development of a geography of peace by focusing on the Arava Institute as... more This chapter pushes the development of a geography of peace by focusing on the Arava Institute as a meeting place in a highly contested landscape. Megoran’s exploration of the concept of positive peace as an alternative to ‘peace as the absence of war’iii is apt as the Arava Institute persists despite continuing, sometimes violent conflict. War is not absent, but peacebuilding takes place nonetheless. As well, Megoran writes based on his inquiry into the meaning of ‘peace,’ that ‘peace is inseparable from questions of social justice’,iv and this too is apt for understanding the institute, its challenges and strategies. In their piece, Williams and McConnell are especially attentive to ‘peace as process’ and propose ‘a more expansive and critical focus around “peace-ful” concepts such as tolerance, friendship, hope, reconciliation, justice, cosmopolitanism, resistance, solidarity, hospitality and empathy.’ The institute has, through design and trial-and-error, developed a group culture that cultivates empathy. As students participate in this culture, they go through processes that are aimed at cultivating peaceful interpersonal relationships. These processes are the focus of this chapter.
The lead “Crossroads” essay by Kenneth Aupperle presents a strong case for the relevance of an an... more The lead “Crossroads” essay by Kenneth Aupperle presents a strong case for the relevance of an ancient Greek story for the “new realities” faced by present-day organizations. Aupperle's story of the story of the “March Up Country” is intended to highlight the historical parallels of this remarkable event with current “hypercompetitive” conditions. He identifies some of the critical factors that contributed to the Greek army's successful organizational “reconfiguration” under the “hypercompetitive conditions” of war. Basically, his argument is that, by analogy, Hellenian culture, “was to individual city-states as a contemporary corporation is to its separate departments and strategic business units,” and that the episode offers useful insights into some of the critical ingredients necessary for meeting the challenges of current organizational conditions and circumstances.
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology And Society, 2021
ABSTRACT This article explores two concepts of community wellbeing informed by Indigenous perspec... more ABSTRACT This article explores two concepts of community wellbeing informed by Indigenous perspectives: Buen Vivir and Comunalidad. We critically examine the current use and practice of these concepts and their potential influence in practices oriented to sustainable development. We argue that instead of continuing to apply the siloed international frameworks of sustainability (a prevalent tendency that to date has marginalized and alienated Indigenous ways of knowing), collaborative sustainable development efforts involving Indigenous communities should be grounded in local understandings of community wellbeing. Such understandings include intrinsically dynamic, interconnected, multileveled, fluid, inclusive, and holistic ideas (from both, Western and Indigenous perspectives) related to what it means to live and be well in terms of the distinctive knowledges of each community. Our findings suggest that this approach can further the success of practitioners and scholars’ collaborative work in the field of sustainable development with Indigenous communities. An overarching dimension in these implications is to emphasize the importance of locally grounded knowledges in informing policies that direct public resources and regulatory frameworks related to the sustainable development of Indigenous communities.
How are postsecondary institutions empowering learners to develop the competencies for environmen... more How are postsecondary institutions empowering learners to develop the competencies for environmental integrity, equitable economic viability, and a just society while also helping them fulfil their own potential? How is this interdisciplinary work supporting transcultural values and practices as well as the development of critical global citizens? The webinar includes speakers from three postsecondary institutions engaged as partners in Regional Centres of Expertise (RCE) on Education for Sustainable Development throughout the world who will address these and related themes and explain how their institutions are carrying out this critical work. Speakers: Sabbir Saiyed, PhD., P.Eng., Manager Transportation Systems Planning/Main Contact for the Peel RCE Rehema White, BSc, MSc, PhD, Academic in sustainable development, University of St Andrews, and Chair, Scotland’s United Nations University Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) in Education for Sustainable Development (Learning for Susta...
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 2021
This article explores two concepts of community wellbeing informed by Indigenous perspectives: Bu... more This article explores two concepts of community wellbeing informed by Indigenous perspectives: Buen Vivir and Comunalidad. We critically examine the current use and practice of these concepts and t...
It is widely agreed that effective problem solving is a fundamental skill for managers (e.g. Whet... more It is widely agreed that effective problem solving is a fundamental skill for managers (e.g. Whetten & Cameron, 1995). Recognizing the importance of problem solving, most North American business programs incorporate it into their curriculum in some format. This paper proposes an integrative model for teaching reflective problem solving in a graduate management education program. It describes an approach that incorporates the dual educational goals of improving both analytical and behavioural competencies through inductive and deductive teaching methods. In particular, our discussion examines the role played by root images or metaphors that provide students with a generative source of insight into the relatedness of different aspects of course content and curriculum. We conclude by addressing a number of salient issues that arise as part of the continuous refinement and development of this approach to teaching this critical managerial competency. Zohar & Middleton 1 I. Introd...
This paper examines the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, focusing on organizational str... more This paper examines the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, focusing on organizational strategies for advancing environmental and peacebuilding efforts across Israel, Palestine and Jordan. The paper will argue that by developing a continuing resource base and a distinct organizational culture, the Arava Institute is able to act as a protective buffer in a region of conflict. It seeks to transform its surrounding societies through three main strategies: 1) by aligning its organizational culture with the life plans of the students who participate in its work; 2) by building both bridging and bonding social capital and; 3) by using this social capital to create new environmental networks both regionally and globally. The analysis highlights the ability of the organization to cultivate a culture of organizational learning, so that it is able to adapt to its changing context while at the same time remaining true to its core mandate.
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society,, 2021
This article explores two concepts of community wellbeing informed
by Indigenous perspectives: Bu... more This article explores two concepts of community wellbeing informed by Indigenous perspectives: Buen Vivir and Comunalidad. We critically examine the current use and practice of these concepts and their potential influence in practices oriented to sustainable development. We argue that instead of continuing to apply the siloed international frameworks of sustainability (a prevalent tendency that to date has marginalized and alienated Indigenous ways of knowing), collaborative sustainable development efforts involving Indigenous communities should be grounded in local understandings of community wellbeing. Such understandings include intrinsically dynamic, interconnected, multileveled, fluid, inclusive, and holistic ideas (from both, Western and Indigenous perspectives) related to what it means to live and be well in terms of the distinctive knowledges of each community. Our findings suggest that this approach can further the success of practitioners and scholars’ collaborative work in the field of sustainable development with Indigenous communities. An overarching dimension in these implications is to emphasize the importance of locally grounded knowledges in informing policies that direct public resources and regulatory frameworks related to the sustainable development of Indigenous communities.
It is widely agreed that effective problem solving is a fundamental skill for managers (e.g.Whett... more It is widely agreed that effective problem solving is a fundamental skill for managers (e.g.Whetten & Cameron, 1995). Recognizing the importance of problem solving, most NorthAmerican business programs incorporate it into their curriculum in some format. This paperproposes an integrative model for teaching reflective problem solving in a graduate managementeducation program. It describes an approach that incorporates the dual educational
This chapter pushes the development of a geography of peace by focusing on the Arava Institute as... more This chapter pushes the development of a geography of peace by focusing on the Arava Institute as a meeting place in a highly contested landscape. Megoran’s exploration of the concept of positive peace as an alternative to ‘peace as the absence of war’iii is apt as the Arava Institute persists despite continuing, sometimes violent conflict. War is not absent, but peacebuilding takes place nonetheless. As well, Megoran writes based on his inquiry into the meaning of ‘peace,’ that ‘peace is inseparable from questions of social justice’,iv and this too is apt for understanding the institute, its challenges and strategies. In their piece, Williams and McConnell are especially attentive to ‘peace as process’ and propose ‘a more expansive and critical focus around “peace-ful” concepts such as tolerance, friendship, hope, reconciliation, justice, cosmopolitanism, resistance, solidarity, hospitality and empathy.’ The institute has, through design and trial-and-error, developed a group culture that cultivates empathy. As students participate in this culture, they go through processes that are aimed at cultivating peaceful interpersonal relationships. These processes are the focus of this chapter.
Many organizations are looking for ways of restructuring and reshaping their activities to delive... more Many organizations are looking for ways of restructuring and reshaping their activities to deliver quantum change in a quantum way. The reality, however is that most quantum change occurs incrementally - as a result of "high leverage" decisions and actions that can push an enterprise in a new direction and reverberate and cumulate in their effects. To aid the process, managers must master the art of high leverage change: by learning how to be driven by a quantum sense of vision while finding "doable," high impact initiatives that challenge and transform the status quo; by learning how to allow one change to build on another and achieve a compounding effect; and by building on opportunities created by random changes that can create unanticipated breakthroughs.
In recent years, Canadian campuses have seen a number of instances of anti-Israel groups advocati... more In recent years, Canadian campuses have seen a number of instances of anti-Israel groups advocating for formal institutional academic boycotts of Israeli universities and/or individual Israeli academics. While there has been little progress in generating a critical mass of support for these boycott initiatives, the broader Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has served to increasingly delegitimize Israel and Israeli academic institutions on Canadian campuses and continues to gain traction in a number of academic groups, most notably within unions, student representative groups, and other campus actors. This paper offers a critical historic account of the development of the BDS movement in Canada during the past decade. Founded in September 2001 with the aim of creating an international boycott movement explicitly targeting Israel and branding it as an “Apartheid state,” it aspires to trigger an international civil society movement similar to that which faced the Aparthe...
This paper offers a critical historic account of responses to the BDS movement in Canada during t... more This paper offers a critical historic account of responses to the BDS movement in Canada during the past decade. The paper critically examines the role of voluntary academic faculty associations in successfully intervening into these politically contentious issues. It describes the strategies and practices adopted by the Canadian Academics for Peace in the Middle East, a voluntary Canadian academic association. It adopts a conceptual framing of the issue of academic boycotts as a “wicked problem” – namely, as a socio-political issue that defies complete definition, for which there can be no definitive conclusion, since any resolution generates further issues, and where solutions are not simply true or false, but the best solutions that can be done at the time. This paper identifies a series of core questions that relate to the strategic positioning of voluntary academic faculty associations in this complex, uncertain context: how do faculty associations successfully negotiate the di...
This chapter pushes the development of a geography of peace by focusing on the Arava Institute as... more This chapter pushes the development of a geography of peace by focusing on the Arava Institute as a meeting place in a highly contested landscape. Megoran’s exploration of the concept of positive peace as an alternative to ‘peace as the absence of war’iii is apt as the Arava Institute persists despite continuing, sometimes violent conflict. War is not absent, but peacebuilding takes place nonetheless. As well, Megoran writes based on his inquiry into the meaning of ‘peace,’ that ‘peace is inseparable from questions of social justice’,iv and this too is apt for understanding the institute, its challenges and strategies. In their piece, Williams and McConnell are especially attentive to ‘peace as process’ and propose ‘a more expansive and critical focus around “peace-ful” concepts such as tolerance, friendship, hope, reconciliation, justice, cosmopolitanism, resistance, solidarity, hospitality and empathy.’ The institute has, through design and trial-and-error, developed a group culture that cultivates empathy. As students participate in this culture, they go through processes that are aimed at cultivating peaceful interpersonal relationships. These processes are the focus of this chapter.
The lead “Crossroads” essay by Kenneth Aupperle presents a strong case for the relevance of an an... more The lead “Crossroads” essay by Kenneth Aupperle presents a strong case for the relevance of an ancient Greek story for the “new realities” faced by present-day organizations. Aupperle's story of the story of the “March Up Country” is intended to highlight the historical parallels of this remarkable event with current “hypercompetitive” conditions. He identifies some of the critical factors that contributed to the Greek army's successful organizational “reconfiguration” under the “hypercompetitive conditions” of war. Basically, his argument is that, by analogy, Hellenian culture, “was to individual city-states as a contemporary corporation is to its separate departments and strategic business units,” and that the episode offers useful insights into some of the critical ingredients necessary for meeting the challenges of current organizational conditions and circumstances.
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology And Society, 2021
ABSTRACT This article explores two concepts of community wellbeing informed by Indigenous perspec... more ABSTRACT This article explores two concepts of community wellbeing informed by Indigenous perspectives: Buen Vivir and Comunalidad. We critically examine the current use and practice of these concepts and their potential influence in practices oriented to sustainable development. We argue that instead of continuing to apply the siloed international frameworks of sustainability (a prevalent tendency that to date has marginalized and alienated Indigenous ways of knowing), collaborative sustainable development efforts involving Indigenous communities should be grounded in local understandings of community wellbeing. Such understandings include intrinsically dynamic, interconnected, multileveled, fluid, inclusive, and holistic ideas (from both, Western and Indigenous perspectives) related to what it means to live and be well in terms of the distinctive knowledges of each community. Our findings suggest that this approach can further the success of practitioners and scholars’ collaborative work in the field of sustainable development with Indigenous communities. An overarching dimension in these implications is to emphasize the importance of locally grounded knowledges in informing policies that direct public resources and regulatory frameworks related to the sustainable development of Indigenous communities.
How are postsecondary institutions empowering learners to develop the competencies for environmen... more How are postsecondary institutions empowering learners to develop the competencies for environmental integrity, equitable economic viability, and a just society while also helping them fulfil their own potential? How is this interdisciplinary work supporting transcultural values and practices as well as the development of critical global citizens? The webinar includes speakers from three postsecondary institutions engaged as partners in Regional Centres of Expertise (RCE) on Education for Sustainable Development throughout the world who will address these and related themes and explain how their institutions are carrying out this critical work. Speakers: Sabbir Saiyed, PhD., P.Eng., Manager Transportation Systems Planning/Main Contact for the Peel RCE Rehema White, BSc, MSc, PhD, Academic in sustainable development, University of St Andrews, and Chair, Scotland’s United Nations University Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) in Education for Sustainable Development (Learning for Susta...
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 2021
This article explores two concepts of community wellbeing informed by Indigenous perspectives: Bu... more This article explores two concepts of community wellbeing informed by Indigenous perspectives: Buen Vivir and Comunalidad. We critically examine the current use and practice of these concepts and t...
It is widely agreed that effective problem solving is a fundamental skill for managers (e.g. Whet... more It is widely agreed that effective problem solving is a fundamental skill for managers (e.g. Whetten & Cameron, 1995). Recognizing the importance of problem solving, most North American business programs incorporate it into their curriculum in some format. This paper proposes an integrative model for teaching reflective problem solving in a graduate management education program. It describes an approach that incorporates the dual educational goals of improving both analytical and behavioural competencies through inductive and deductive teaching methods. In particular, our discussion examines the role played by root images or metaphors that provide students with a generative source of insight into the relatedness of different aspects of course content and curriculum. We conclude by addressing a number of salient issues that arise as part of the continuous refinement and development of this approach to teaching this critical managerial competency. Zohar & Middleton 1 I. Introd...
This paper examines the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, focusing on organizational str... more This paper examines the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, focusing on organizational strategies for advancing environmental and peacebuilding efforts across Israel, Palestine and Jordan. The paper will argue that by developing a continuing resource base and a distinct organizational culture, the Arava Institute is able to act as a protective buffer in a region of conflict. It seeks to transform its surrounding societies through three main strategies: 1) by aligning its organizational culture with the life plans of the students who participate in its work; 2) by building both bridging and bonding social capital and; 3) by using this social capital to create new environmental networks both regionally and globally. The analysis highlights the ability of the organization to cultivate a culture of organizational learning, so that it is able to adapt to its changing context while at the same time remaining true to its core mandate.
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society,, 2021
This article explores two concepts of community wellbeing informed
by Indigenous perspectives: Bu... more This article explores two concepts of community wellbeing informed by Indigenous perspectives: Buen Vivir and Comunalidad. We critically examine the current use and practice of these concepts and their potential influence in practices oriented to sustainable development. We argue that instead of continuing to apply the siloed international frameworks of sustainability (a prevalent tendency that to date has marginalized and alienated Indigenous ways of knowing), collaborative sustainable development efforts involving Indigenous communities should be grounded in local understandings of community wellbeing. Such understandings include intrinsically dynamic, interconnected, multileveled, fluid, inclusive, and holistic ideas (from both, Western and Indigenous perspectives) related to what it means to live and be well in terms of the distinctive knowledges of each community. Our findings suggest that this approach can further the success of practitioners and scholars’ collaborative work in the field of sustainable development with Indigenous communities. An overarching dimension in these implications is to emphasize the importance of locally grounded knowledges in informing policies that direct public resources and regulatory frameworks related to the sustainable development of Indigenous communities.
It is widely agreed that effective problem solving is a fundamental skill for managers (e.g.Whett... more It is widely agreed that effective problem solving is a fundamental skill for managers (e.g.Whetten & Cameron, 1995). Recognizing the importance of problem solving, most NorthAmerican business programs incorporate it into their curriculum in some format. This paperproposes an integrative model for teaching reflective problem solving in a graduate managementeducation program. It describes an approach that incorporates the dual educational
This chapter pushes the development of a geography of peace by focusing on the Arava Institute as... more This chapter pushes the development of a geography of peace by focusing on the Arava Institute as a meeting place in a highly contested landscape. Megoran’s exploration of the concept of positive peace as an alternative to ‘peace as the absence of war’iii is apt as the Arava Institute persists despite continuing, sometimes violent conflict. War is not absent, but peacebuilding takes place nonetheless. As well, Megoran writes based on his inquiry into the meaning of ‘peace,’ that ‘peace is inseparable from questions of social justice’,iv and this too is apt for understanding the institute, its challenges and strategies. In their piece, Williams and McConnell are especially attentive to ‘peace as process’ and propose ‘a more expansive and critical focus around “peace-ful” concepts such as tolerance, friendship, hope, reconciliation, justice, cosmopolitanism, resistance, solidarity, hospitality and empathy.’ The institute has, through design and trial-and-error, developed a group culture that cultivates empathy. As students participate in this culture, they go through processes that are aimed at cultivating peaceful interpersonal relationships. These processes are the focus of this chapter.
Many organizations are looking for ways of restructuring and reshaping their activities to delive... more Many organizations are looking for ways of restructuring and reshaping their activities to deliver quantum change in a quantum way. The reality, however is that most quantum change occurs incrementally - as a result of "high leverage" decisions and actions that can push an enterprise in a new direction and reverberate and cumulate in their effects. To aid the process, managers must master the art of high leverage change: by learning how to be driven by a quantum sense of vision while finding "doable," high impact initiatives that challenge and transform the status quo; by learning how to allow one change to build on another and achieve a compounding effect; and by building on opportunities created by random changes that can create unanticipated breakthroughs.
In recent years, Canadian campuses have seen a number of instances of anti-Israel groups advocati... more In recent years, Canadian campuses have seen a number of instances of anti-Israel groups advocating for formal institutional academic boycotts of Israeli universities and/or individual Israeli academics. While there has been little progress in generating a critical mass of support for these boycott initiatives, the broader Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has served to increasingly delegitimize Israel and Israeli academic institutions on Canadian campuses and continues to gain traction in a number of academic groups, most notably within unions, student representative groups, and other campus actors. This paper offers a critical historic account of the development of the BDS movement in Canada during the past decade. Founded in September 2001 with the aim of creating an international boycott movement explicitly targeting Israel and branding it as an “Apartheid state,” it aspires to trigger an international civil society movement similar to that which faced the Aparthe...
This paper offers a critical historic account of responses to the BDS movement in Canada during t... more This paper offers a critical historic account of responses to the BDS movement in Canada during the past decade. The paper critically examines the role of voluntary academic faculty associations in successfully intervening into these politically contentious issues. It describes the strategies and practices adopted by the Canadian Academics for Peace in the Middle East, a voluntary Canadian academic association. It adopts a conceptual framing of the issue of academic boycotts as a “wicked problem” – namely, as a socio-political issue that defies complete definition, for which there can be no definitive conclusion, since any resolution generates further issues, and where solutions are not simply true or false, but the best solutions that can be done at the time. This paper identifies a series of core questions that relate to the strategic positioning of voluntary academic faculty associations in this complex, uncertain context: how do faculty associations successfully negotiate the di...
Educating for a sustainable future and learning to live within our planetary limits is the most p... more Educating for a sustainable future and learning to live within our planetary limits is the most pressing challenge of our times. In this chapter, the authors present an emerging model of transcultural education that brings together Indigenous and western knowledges. This approach aims to engage learners from different cultures and knowledge traditions with the purpose of guiding them through ideas and processes of imagining, listening, speaking, and working together in a way that respects differences, acknowledges common ground, and seeks to co-create new knowledges. Bringing together Indigenous and Western knowledges in this manner creates a unique context that can potentially build the mindsets, skills, and dispositions that are needed for living and managing sustainably. A pedagogy grounded in this approach can potentially promote student interest and engagement across cultural and social divides, foster successful learning about bridging social inequalities, and cultivate an ethos of social, cultural, and environmental responsibility.
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by Indigenous perspectives: Buen Vivir and Comunalidad. We
critically examine the current use and practice of these concepts
and their potential influence in practices oriented to sustainable
development. We argue that instead of continuing to apply the
siloed international frameworks of sustainability (a prevalent
tendency that to date has marginalized and alienated Indigenous
ways of knowing), collaborative sustainable development efforts
involving Indigenous communities should be grounded in local
understandings of community wellbeing. Such understandings
include intrinsically dynamic, interconnected, multileveled, fluid,
inclusive, and holistic ideas (from both, Western and Indigenous
perspectives) related to what it means to live and be well in terms
of the distinctive knowledges of each community. Our findings
suggest that this approach can further the success of practitioners
and scholars’ collaborative work in the field of sustainable
development with Indigenous communities. An overarching
dimension in these implications is to emphasize the importance of
locally grounded knowledges in informing policies that direct
public resources and regulatory frameworks related to the
sustainable development of Indigenous communities.
by Indigenous perspectives: Buen Vivir and Comunalidad. We
critically examine the current use and practice of these concepts
and their potential influence in practices oriented to sustainable
development. We argue that instead of continuing to apply the
siloed international frameworks of sustainability (a prevalent
tendency that to date has marginalized and alienated Indigenous
ways of knowing), collaborative sustainable development efforts
involving Indigenous communities should be grounded in local
understandings of community wellbeing. Such understandings
include intrinsically dynamic, interconnected, multileveled, fluid,
inclusive, and holistic ideas (from both, Western and Indigenous
perspectives) related to what it means to live and be well in terms
of the distinctive knowledges of each community. Our findings
suggest that this approach can further the success of practitioners
and scholars’ collaborative work in the field of sustainable
development with Indigenous communities. An overarching
dimension in these implications is to emphasize the importance of
locally grounded knowledges in informing policies that direct
public resources and regulatory frameworks related to the
sustainable development of Indigenous communities.