Mir Centre for Peace
Annual Report Released. Click here to read it!
Promoting Learning and Dialogue in Our Community
Our Programs
Our Community Events & Workshops
- Mir Lecture Series: Our Mir Lecture Series has become an important and vibrant part of the Mir Centre’s activities and fundamental mission. The series features provocative thinkers and inspiring speakers on a wide range of topics, from reconciliation, human rights, and nonviolence, to restorative justice, climate action, gender justice and more.
- Peace Cafes
- Community Education
Meet our Team
History of the Mir Centre
The history of the Mir Centre for Peace began in 1966 when the college inherited the buildings and site, but the rich history of this magnificent piece of land and the people who have lived here, stretches back for centuries.
The Mir Centre was established in 1999 with the mandate of understanding and building cultures of peace through education. Mir, an ancient Russian word with the complex meaning of peace, community and world, encompasses and defines the following values:
- Peace and social justice for the individual, family, community and the world
- Respect for cultural, ethnic, philosophical, spiritual, religious and intellectual diversity
- Dignity of work and service to humanity
- Education and learning which advance these values
Click here to read the Mir Centre annual report.
Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping Database
See what's happening in peacekeeping around the world in Mir Centre for Peace research...
Mir Events
Jun. 04
Join the Mir Centre at Selkirk College for a conversation with Bruce Wilson and Larissa Stendie on transitioning to renewable energy.
A Worker-led Movement - from Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy
Iron & Earth is a worker-led movement of over 800 Canadian fossil fuel industry and Indigenous workers who are leading the transition to renewable energy. Iron & Earth empowers worker... SEE DETAILS »