This book serves as an important link between conflict resolution practice and education by providing research from the unique perspective and approach of the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice, one of the world's leading academic programs for PACS research: storytelling, peacebuilding, and conflict transformation. Each chapter presents original research in critical issues in the field of PACS, and provides recent research for the future development of the field and the education of its practitioners and academics. The book has a wide audience targeting students at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels. It also extends to those working in and leading community conflict resolution efforts as well as humanitarian aid workers. Exploring the issues facing the field provides a means by which academics, students, and practitioners can develop theory, practice, pedagogy, and methodology to confront the complexity of contemporary conflicts while expanding opportunities for future research and practice. Contributors to the book are recognized scholars and practitioners in their respective fields. The authors' take a holistic approach to the study, analysis, and resolution of conflict at the personal, interpersonal, societal and cultural levels. The book is a retrospective of the Mauro Centre and through its content, explores the roots of a major contributor to PACS scholarship. The scholarship represents those who come to the PACS field with a diversity of ideas, approaches, disciplinary roots, and topic areas, which speaks to the complexity, breadth, and depth needed to apply and take account of conflict dynamics and the goal of peace. This book reflects the unique model and approach of the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice at the University of Manitoba in central Canada: conflict transformation, peacebuilding, and storytelling. Based in the doctoral theses and in celebration of the first decade of Canada's only doctoral program in PACS, this volume, co-edited by three of the graduates of the program and written by colleagues, presents and explores a number of these issues while presenting new and leading research across the broad spectrum of Peace and Conflict Studies.

La titularisation est une etape marquante dans le monde academique. Une fois acquise, elle procure la securite et la permanence, de maniere a accroitre la liberte intellectuelle dans la poursuite de recherches et d'interets importants, a la fois pour l'etablissement et pour la societe. Si le parcours vers la titularisation est tres personnel, la periode de titularisation elle-meme procure une tribune pour engager la conversation avec ses pairs. Cela implique des defis, surtout dans un milieu ou la liberte intellectuelle est encouragee. Les auteurs doivent faire des choix qui leur permettront d'atteindre leurs objectifs personnels tout en repondant aux mandats et aux politiques institutionnels. En meme temps, apres des annees de titularisation, ils continuent d'evoluer en tant qu'universitaires, en poursuivant leur cheminement personnel ou en cherchant des changements au sein du monde academique. Cet ouvrage rassemble les experiences vecues d'universitaires qui explorent la relation complexe entre eux, le monde academique en tant qu'ideal et les universites en tant que realisation de cet ideal durant la periode menant a la titularisation. Publie en Anglais.

The Academic Gateway: Understanding the Journey to Tenure investigates the experiences of professors employed in tenure-track positions who are starting their career within a university environment, but have not yet attained the affirmation and permanence that tenure offers. The role that they have taken on entails the preparation of students within a professional school. Some of them have very limited professional experience, while others bring multiple years of experience with them in their transition to a faculty of education. The contributors speak to the three key components of their faculty role: teaching, service, and research. Addressing organizational structures and differences relative to prior roles, they examine how these changes have assisted, confused or altered the way they conduct their day-to-day work. They speak about relevant prior experiences, the preparation they received through graduate school, and the details of the learning curve as they entered into their tenure track role. Have they been successful? The reader will experience the same uncertainty and anticipation every professor goes through during their journey to tenure. This approach amplifies the realism of not knowing whether issues that are spoken about will ultimately be overcome and enhances the validity of their experiences by not biasing the contributions towards those who expect success.

La titularisation est une etape marquante dans le monde academique. Une fois acquise, elle procure la securite et la permanence, de maniere a accroitre la liberte intellectuelle dans la poursuite de recherches et d'interets importants, a la fois pour l'etablissement et pour la societe. Si le parcours vers la titularisation est tres personnel, la periode de titularisation elle-meme procure une tribune pour engager la conversation avec ses pairs. Cela implique des defis, surtout dans un milieu ou la liberte intellectuelle est encouragee. Les auteurs doivent faire des choix qui leur permettront d'atteindre leurs objectifs personnels tout en repondant aux mandats et aux politiques institutionnels. En meme temps, apres des annees de titularisation, ils continuent d'evoluer en tant qu'universitaires, en poursuivant leur cheminement personnel ou en cherchant des changements au sein du monde academique. Cet ouvrage rassemble les experiences vecues d'universitaires qui explorent la relation complexe entre eux, le monde academique en tant qu'ideal et les universites en tant que realisation de cet ideal durant la periode menant a la titularisation. Publie en Anglais.