Our mission is to increase the capacity of youth, communities and the education, justice, and child welfare systems to communicate and manage conflict through restorative Peacebuilding dialogues.
Peacebuilders News & Updates
Leadership Change Announcement
It is with mixed feelings that the Board of Directors announces that after three successful years as Executive Director, Marlon Merraro will end his term of office at Peacebuilders on October 31, 2022, as he has undertaken a position as Director of Diversity at the...
Peacebuilders has been approved to join OTF’s Organizational Mentor Network
We are thrilled to announce that Peacebuilders has been approved by the Youth Opportunities Fund to become an Organizational Mentor (OM). As an OM, we will provide administrative support, project mentoring, and financial accountability to YOF grassroots groups, in...
Op-Ed in today’s Toronto Star by Marlon Merraro, Executive Director
In today's Toronto Star, an op-ed by Peacebuilders' Marlon Merraro and TNG's President and Chief Executive Officer, Bill Sinclair on Community Safety and Policing. Here is an excerpt. With great fanfare, the City of Toronto unveiled two new community-based nonpolice...
Peacebuilders Takes On Sexualized Violence in Toronto Schools and the Youth Criminal Justice System
Peacebuilders Canada is working to help combat sexualized violence within the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) and the Youth Criminal Justice System. On behalf of Peacebuilders, research assistant Michelle Scully has written a report detailing the prevalence of...
Peacebuilders’ response to TPS Chief’s Apology as Department Releases Race-Based Use-of-Force Statistics
Peacebuilders Canada listened in dismay on Wednesday as Interim Police Chief James Ramer delivered an uninspired apology for his department’s disturbing racialized use-of-force problem. In 2017, the Government of Ontario directed police forces across the province to...
Senators Go to Jail
Did you know that Senators, MPs, and the Judiciary can, and in fact have the right to, visit all federal penitentiaries in Canada? Learn what they learned in a new report entitled, Senators Go to Jail: When, why, and what did they find? The report highlights concerns...