CMCCF- Lifetime Emeritus Social Justice Award 2025

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CMCCF's Emeritus Social Justice Award-2025

Our submission cut-off date is: March 9, 2026 by 4:00 p.m. Our Celebration Event where the award winners will be announced is on March 24, 2026.

A Social Justice Emeritus Award recipient, through a Peace-First lens, is someone whose lifetime of work has helped cultivate the conditions for peace before conflict arises, and sustain dignity, justice, and belonging across difference within their cultural community and beyond.

Peace-First leadership shifts attention away from conflict as the primary organizing frame and toward positive peace as a lived, relational capacity. For Emeritus recipients, peace is not understood as the absence of tension or struggle, but as the presence of enabling conditions that allow individuals, families, and communities to remain whole, grounded, and connected under pressure.

Through decades of service, Emeritus awardees have demonstrated that peace is Learned and practiced long before it is tested in everyday relationships, ethical choices, mentorship, advocacy, and care for community life. Their work reflects a deep understanding that peace is cultivated first in the individual, then within families, and then within cultural communities, forming a nested ecology of peace that strengthens communities from the inside out.

Rather than relying on crisis-driven or control-based responses, Social Justice

Emeritus recipients have invested in early, relational, and values-anchored approaches to justice and equity.

Their leadership has contributed to environments where people feel seen, respected, and able to participate fully reducing harm not through enforcement alone, but through belonging, trust, and shared responsibility.

From a Peace-First perspective, the accomplishments of a Social Justice Emeritus awardee are not limited to policies changed or organizations built, but include:

  1. Strengthening relationships across cultural and generational lines
  1. Modelling ethical leadership under complexity
  1. Mentoring others to lead with compassion and courage
  1. Preserving dignity in moments of division
  1. Leaving behind communities more capable of peace than when they arrived

Manitoba Cultural Community Social Justice Emeritus Award: “Lifetime Emeritus Advocate and Wisdom Keeper for Social Justice”

This award honours individuals whose lifelong dedication has advanced social justice, strengthened cultural communities, and quietly or courageously built the foundations for lasting peace in Manitoba.

This award recognizes individuals who, over decades, have:

1. Advocated for marginalized cultural communities

2. Challenged systemic injustice

3. Influenced policy, practice, or community norms

4. Mentored others and shaped future leadership

5. Embodied integrity, compassion, and wisdom Emeritus recipients are not only advocates, they are wisdom keepers, whose lived knowledge continues to guide communities even as their formal roles evolve.

Guiding Principles:

Positive Peace — Justice, dignity, belonging, relational strength

Cultural Peace building — Peace shaped by cultural values and lived experience\

Wisdom-in-Practice — Sound judgment across time and complexity

Intergenerational Responsibility — Leaving communities stronger than we found

Online forms:

Self-Nomination Form Link:

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Nominate Other’s Link:

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We thank all who have applied and value your efforts!

This is a quick nomination process.

Our cut-off date is March 9, 2026 at 4:00 p.m.

The successful nominee will be announced online.

Emeritus Social Justice Award Committee membership:

Art Mike

Clayton Sandy

Rita Chahal

Quanhai Tonthat

 

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A Message to Our Community

After years of dedicated leadership, our Director Martin will be stepping down as CMCCF enters an exciting new chapter. We are deeply grateful for everything he has brought to the Coalition of Manitoba Cultural Communities for Families, and we look forward to what lies ahead together.

As we navigate this transition, we welcome your questions, thoughts, and support. For any inquiries, please reach out to Florence at floxy166@yahoo.ca — she will be happy to hear from you.

Thank you for being part of our community.

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The Purpose of These Peace-First: CollaborationNet Pages These pages exist to share what we have learned. Over the past year, Peace-First: CollaborationNet has operated as a time-limited demonstration initiative, which is a space to test ideas, host conversations, and discover what might grow when peace is placed at the center. Conversations took root in informal Peace-First Hubs across Winnipeg, Thompson, Brandon, and Portage la Prairie, with related gatherings in Vancouver and Toronto. Toronto now helps convene national roundtable conversations, linking local dialogue with a broader Canadian exchange. What began as small, local discussions has become more connected — not through expansion or centralization, but through coherence. Across regions, shared themes, tensions, and hopes are emerging. This webpage documents that journey. It gathers reflections, materials, and learning from Hub conversations so others can understand what has been explored and carry it forward. From the beginning, Peace-First was designed as a seed-planting initiative, formally concluding March 31, 2026. Its focus has been to explore how individuals and cultural communities understand inner peace, collective vision, community cohesion, and cultural dignity and visibility. The Hubs are volunteer-led spaces where community connectors and members gather to listen, reflect, and imagine what a peaceful geographic and cultural community might look like in practice. Along the way, we developed background papers, reflection documents, and practical toolkits shaped by lived experience in Manitoba and beyond. This page now serves as a living repository within the Peace-First Library, offering capacity-building tools, framing papers, hub guidance, and shared learning that communities can adapt to their own realities. The purpose is not to centralize authority, but to make learning accessible. Peace-First Hubs are community-led and partner-supported — grounded in relationship, not hierarchy. Supported by ACOMI, ECCM, Palaver Hut, MIA, cultural community members across the country, and allies such as MANSO, Mediation Services, CanU Canada, and PCHS, this work moves through partnership rather than control. This initiative has been made possible through the principal financial support of the Department of Canadian Heritage, with a supportive role played by The Winnipeg Foundation. Their investment has allowed these conversations, materials, and connections to take shape. These materials are not instructions to replicate. They are tools to adapt. This page is more than documentation. It is an invitation. Peace-First is not about imposing a uniform model. It is about strengthening conditions for dialogue, cohesion, and shared responsibility before a crisis. If this resonates, we invite you to explore further, join a national roundtable call, or consider what it would mean to host or support a conversation in your own community. Join a national roundtable call. Complete the survey. The seeds have been planted. What grows next depends on all of us.

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