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Adam Muller, director of the peace and conflict studies program at the University of Manitoba

CBC Manitoba: St. John’s-Ravenscourt parents raise concerns about bullying, Israel-Hamas war response at school

July 8, 2024 — 

Adam Muller, a professor of peace and conflict studies at the University of Manitoba, said the issues the parents allege could reflect the “stress and strain” and “hurt and insult” the conflict is causing for many.

“This is a messy, long-standing, extremely complicated conflict, with justice and injustice claims on every side of it,” he said.

“Even the international courts are challenged to adjudicate coherently when it comes to, say for example, the claim that there’s been a genocide committed in Gaza. So we shouldn’t expect the schools to have an easier time of it.”

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