CBC News: Amid on-campus tensions brought on by Israel-Hamas war, experts worry about free expression
October 30, 2023 —
It’s vital that conversations about the Israel-Hamas war happen on campuses — at the very least to share information and resources about self-care with the school community, said Adam Muller, director of the peace and conflict studies program at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. But he acknowledged that every action is a balancing act.
“Administrators [are] struggling to find the right kind of balance that, on the one hand, does justice to the suffering of the individuals that we see daily on television and at the same time restrains us enough so that when we express our positions on that suffering on the conflict, we do so in ways that don’t harm other people.”