Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice News Archive

Faculty of Law
Dr. Nathan Derejko and the Attack of the Peacekeepers
March 31, 2023 —
Unexpected guests tuned in to a hybrid online/in-person public lecture given as one of St. Paul’s College Brown Bag lectures on March 3, 2023. Dr. Nathan Derejko, Mauro Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice, and Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law was presenting his research on the use of force and right to life during so-called ‘robust’ peacekeeping missions, when somewhat unexpectedly, current members of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), tuned in online from their mission headquarters.

Faculty of Law
University of Manitoba appoints new Mauro Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice
March 22, 2022 —
The Mauro Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice was created and funded through the generosity of the Mauro Foundation and is a key part of the Master of Human Rights program, now housed at Robson Hall

Faculty of Science
2022 Turtle Island Indigenous Science Conference
January 27, 2022 —
The UM is hosting its first Indigenous Science Conference with a focus on the Indigenous approach to understanding the five elements of the world: fire, water, earth, air, and spirit.

Faculty of Law
Celebrating Faculty of Law Class of 2021 Graduates
June 7, 2021 —
Honouring the 2021 graduating class of students from all three programs housed at the Faculty of Law

Five Vanier Scholars will call UM home in 2020
June 19, 2020 —
Considered to be the Canadian equivalent of the United Kingdom’s Rhodes Scholarships, these $150,000 awards will help recruit and keep top doctoral students from across the country and around the world

Student success stories of 2019
December 20, 2019 —
The UM has no shortage of incredible students - here’s a snapshot of some of our students’ biggest successes of the year

CBC: Winnipegger in Greece fundraising to bring urgent care to Europe’s largest refugee camp
December 12, 2019 —
Centre needed to provide health care, ease tensions on Greek island, says co-ordinator Katie Muirhead

Sometimes, conflict can lead to love
October 11, 2019 —
They fell in love at UM and married this year, and they’re graduating together during Fall Convocation 2019

Research and International
Bridging the local and the global
May 6, 2019 —
Meet the 2019 recipients of the Nahlah Ayed Prize for Student Leadership and Global Citizenship